The Corporate Trainer &
Motivator
With competition and competency the buzzwords today, a corporate trainer is in demand in most organisations, says Our Career Counselor
How about motivating and training a group of corporate executives through your
pep-talk and planned group activities? And then, identify their strong and
weak areas and rate them according to their performance. Sounds exciting?
Well, that's exactly what the job of a HR corporate trainer entails.
Opportunities aplenty
With the business environment getting competitive every day, every company worth its salt wants to be ahead of their competition. The best way to achieve that edge is ensuring optimum level of performance from its employees."Globalisation has led to competition and competency gaps. In order to plug these gaps, focused training has become the need of the hour," clarified Tushar Basu, director of a HR consulting firm."The trainer has to commit to certain agreed deliverables. Every employer looks at bottom-line training, that is, at the end of the training what is the return on the investment. The trainer must be able to explain what the participants can do at the end of the programme", added Partho Mukhopadhyay, head, HR, SREI. Though most trainers operate on a freelance basis or have informal networks, many find employment in corporate houses as well as organisations specialising in training for other corporates.
The work profile
Khushroo Pithawalla, a corporate trainer, explained,"The job involves meeting specific needs like increasing teamwork, better leadership, communication, relationships, trust levels and so on." Michael S David, another trainer, said,"Whether the training is internal or external, it is imperative for the trainer to understand the needs of the organisation and objectives of the programme. He is expected to design the programme bearing in mind what the participants are expected to do after the training.” The trainer should conduct the training programme with the flexibility to change it on the floor, if required.
"At the end of it, he is required to give a feedback to the organisation in terms of key issues and development plans for the function of the participants," he added. The common ambits of training, according to David, are in areas of general management, behavioural, sales and marketing, soft skills, technical and functional.
Moolah matters
The prospects of a trainer are quite good, considering the dearth of trainers in the country. The remuneration differs from trainer to trainer, depending on the level of experience he/she possesses. According to Pithawalla, the pay packet varies from Rs 5,000 to Rs 30,000 per day.
Training trainers
There is no specific educational qualification necessary to become a trainer.“An MBA helps, coupled with lots of reading on human behaviour theories and applications," explained Pithawalla. According to Kantharao Vadlamudi, another such trainer,"One needs to work under some senior professional for at least five to ten years to evolve into a mature trainer. It's critical to develop one's self and the kind of person one is, specially his emotional maturity to be able to handle diverse situations. For example, the issue of accepting others without any prejudice or any kind of baggage and belief is of paramount importance since these constitute the unconscious part of our being and are very difficult to change. To work on these aspects, one would need specialist's guidance," explained Vadlamudi.
"In fact, with experience being a critical factor in this profession, it is more of an applied career option for mid-level executives. You need to work for some time to pick up the relevant experience in this profession," he added.
Where to get trained?
There is a dearth of specialised institutes for training wannabe trainers since the concept is relatively new in India. However, there are some management institutes and training centres that do offer some certification courses largely for brushing up soft skills.
Some institutes providing relevant courses
Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad
www.asci.org.in
XLRI, Jamshedpur
www.xlri.ac.in
Fore School of Management, New Delhi
www.fsm.ac.in
National Institute Of Industrial Engineering (NITIE),Mumbai
www.nitie.edu
Indian Society For Training and Development (ISTD), New Delhi
www.istddiploma.org
www.citehr.com/3-vt3588.html?start=20
IMT, Ghaziabad
www.imt.edu
Tata Management Training Centre, Pune
www.tmtctata.com
Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Science (ISABS), New Delhi
www.isabs.org
Opportunities aplenty
With the business environment getting competitive every day, every company worth its salt wants to be ahead of their competition. The best way to achieve that edge is ensuring optimum level of performance from its employees."Globalisation has led to competition and competency gaps. In order to plug these gaps, focused training has become the need of the hour," clarified Tushar Basu, director of a HR consulting firm."The trainer has to commit to certain agreed deliverables. Every employer looks at bottom-line training, that is, at the end of the training what is the return on the investment. The trainer must be able to explain what the participants can do at the end of the programme", added Partho Mukhopadhyay, head, HR, SREI. Though most trainers operate on a freelance basis or have informal networks, many find employment in corporate houses as well as organisations specialising in training for other corporates.
The work profile
Khushroo Pithawalla, a corporate trainer, explained,"The job involves meeting specific needs like increasing teamwork, better leadership, communication, relationships, trust levels and so on." Michael S David, another trainer, said,"Whether the training is internal or external, it is imperative for the trainer to understand the needs of the organisation and objectives of the programme. He is expected to design the programme bearing in mind what the participants are expected to do after the training.” The trainer should conduct the training programme with the flexibility to change it on the floor, if required.
"At the end of it, he is required to give a feedback to the organisation in terms of key issues and development plans for the function of the participants," he added. The common ambits of training, according to David, are in areas of general management, behavioural, sales and marketing, soft skills, technical and functional.
Moolah matters
The prospects of a trainer are quite good, considering the dearth of trainers in the country. The remuneration differs from trainer to trainer, depending on the level of experience he/she possesses. According to Pithawalla, the pay packet varies from Rs 5,000 to Rs 30,000 per day.
Training trainers
There is no specific educational qualification necessary to become a trainer.“An MBA helps, coupled with lots of reading on human behaviour theories and applications," explained Pithawalla. According to Kantharao Vadlamudi, another such trainer,"One needs to work under some senior professional for at least five to ten years to evolve into a mature trainer. It's critical to develop one's self and the kind of person one is, specially his emotional maturity to be able to handle diverse situations. For example, the issue of accepting others without any prejudice or any kind of baggage and belief is of paramount importance since these constitute the unconscious part of our being and are very difficult to change. To work on these aspects, one would need specialist's guidance," explained Vadlamudi.
"In fact, with experience being a critical factor in this profession, it is more of an applied career option for mid-level executives. You need to work for some time to pick up the relevant experience in this profession," he added.
Where to get trained?
There is a dearth of specialised institutes for training wannabe trainers since the concept is relatively new in India. However, there are some management institutes and training centres that do offer some certification courses largely for brushing up soft skills.
Some institutes providing relevant courses
Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad
www.asci.org.in
XLRI, Jamshedpur
www.xlri.ac.in
Fore School of Management, New Delhi
www.fsm.ac.in
National Institute Of Industrial Engineering (NITIE),Mumbai
www.nitie.edu
Indian Society For Training and Development (ISTD), New Delhi
www.istddiploma.org
www.citehr.com/3-vt3588.html?start=20
IMT, Ghaziabad
www.imt.edu
Tata Management Training Centre, Pune
www.tmtctata.com
Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Science (ISABS), New Delhi
www.isabs.org
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