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6 Qualities of a Good Trainer - What are the qualities that make a good trainer?
There is so much to consider when you think about answering this question. You could easily get bogged down in trying to perfect every aspect of your performance as a trainer.
To help you get started, we think it’s beneficial to focus on a few key elements.
Start here, giving your energy and attention to the development of these areas. Train The Trainer was created as a home for “all things Train the Trainer”.
It’s a resource for those who want to gain clear, accurate, and up-to-date knowledge about Train the Trainer Course qualifications, training, and the path to becoming a professional trainer.
This especially applies to tailored training for in-company groups. For example, when organising a management training programme for a client, a good trainer will address the needs of the client, the trainees, and the organisation.
An “off the shelf” approach won’t be half as effective as a tailored solution. Learn how to conduct a successful Training Needs Analysis (TNA) to make the training relevant to those attending your course.
The next step is to be able to take the findings from your TNA and use them to design the right kind of training session. The best trainers know how to make each module engaging and memorable.
If you feel like you’re lacking in TNA or design skills, our Training Needs Identification & Design Course will help you fill in those gaps.
This quality is for your benefit and for the good of your trainees. If you’re organised – arriving on time, ensuring you know your material, have double checked that you have packed everything you need, and are ready to greet your trainees, you will enjoy the experience of training others so much more.
From a trainee’s perspective, a calm and organised trainer instils a sense of confidence and sets the tone for the duration of the course.
This is a continuation of the last quality. We learn better when we’re in a supportive, encouraging environment.
As a professional trainer, you are responsible for creating and maintaining a positive and inclusive learning environment for all of your trainees.
This can be a scary one. However, if you want to be a really good trainer, you’ll work at it.
Start by accepting that you won’t have all of the answers – and no one expects this of you in the first place. The best you can do is to ensure you are well-versed in your subject matter and approach each question calmly. Answer what you can, and endeavour to research and find a response to what you cannot answer immediately.
When we stop learning, growing, and changing, we become stale and quickly outdated.
Trainers at the top of their game are continuously reflecting on their last training sessions to evaluate what worked, and what could be improved upon in future.
Not sure how to evaluate your training’s effectiveness? Take a look at a Training Delivery and Evaluation Course to get the skills you need.
Written by “Twilight Zone” genius-in-residence, Rod Serling, what could have been an average punchy-fighter flick takes on an air of elegant pathos. Anthony Quinn is Mountain Rivera, a heavyweight boxer at the very end of his career who has one last fight — against Cassius Clay (playing himself and billed as Muhammed Ali). Once ranked fifth, Rivera is proud that he never took a dive, but now he’s being pressured by his sleazy manager (Jackie Gleason) to do just that against Clay. Also starring Julie Harris and Mickey Rooney.
Whether you are a dog lover or hater, you will love this truly hilarious send-up of dog shows and the ridiculous characters that attend them. The owners and handlers travel to the Mayflower Dog Show, a national competition, and things get uglier than a mangy mutt. Written by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy, and directed by Guest, the humans here include Levy, Bob Balaban, Jane Lynch, Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Willard, Catherine O’Hara and Parker Posey.
From the nonfiction book of the same name, this is the story of the McCain-Obama presidential campaign, even though the movie is totally focused on McCain-Palin’s disastrous campaign. Because the info came from McCain’s people, the story is more balanced than expected — with McCain (Ed Harris) as the guy who should have won and Palin (Julianne Moore) as the big reason he didn’t. Tina Fey parodied Palin, but Moore inhabits her.
The story of Chicago’s Cadillac Records of the 1950s and the turbulent lives of the famous performers of that time such as Chuck Berry (Mos Def), Etta James (Beyoncé Knowles), legendary DJ Alan Freed (Eric Bogosian), and producers Leonard (Adrien Brody) and Phill Chess (Shiloh Fernandez). Hey, isn’t that Mick Jagger (Joshua Alscher)?
Feline has been waiting for home for four years.
Lois is a six-year-old cat and has lived at the shelter for over four years. She is sweet girl, who actively seeks attention and loves to play. Her adoption fee is $80, this includes her spay, FELV/FIV test, annd vaccines. For more information go online to humanesandusky.org or by visit the shelter at 1315 N. River Road, Fremont, Ohio 43420. The shelter is open 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday.
If you are feeling weak or worn out seemingly for no reason, it may be a good idea to visit your doctor and have your blood checked for anemia. This condition can cause otherwise healthy individuals to feel down in the dumps. Anemia is not contagious. Many forms of anemia are treatable through dietary supplementation and by eating foods that contain high amounts of a deficient vitamin or mineral.
Anemia, the most common disorder pertaining to red blood cells, is experienced when the cells in the body become oxygen-deficient. This occurs when the amount of hemoglobin in the blood becomes inadequate. Essentially, the cells of the body become deprived of life-giving oxygen molecules.
Iron deficiency anemia occurs when the body does not have an adequate supply of iron to manufacture hemoglobin, which carries oxygen to the body’s cells. This is the most common form of anemia. Folic acid deficiency anemia occurs when the body doesn’t have enough folic acid to help red blood cells mature. This is the second-most-common form of anemia. Anemia that is caused by deficiencies such as these may be categorized as mild, as the deficiencies are easily treatable with diet and supplementation.
Warning signs of anemia include feeling tired, faint, dizzy, out of breath or generally bad; having pale skin, gums, nail beds or eyelid linings; or having bluish lips. In women, increased bleeding during their period, or an absence of a menstrual cycle, may indicate anemia.
In addition to these common signs, many people with anemia experience an accelerated heartbeat, particularly when they exercise, as well as shortness of breath, headaches and difficulty concentrating. Specific to iron deficiency anemia is a craving for substances such as dirt or paper. Having a sore mouth or cracks at the corners of the mouth are other common symptoms of iron deficiency anemia. A person who has folic acid anemia may experience symptoms such as the loss of the sense of touch or a "pins and needles" sensation in the hands or feet. Clumsiness or difficulty walking may be observed. More serious symptoms include dementia, hallucinations, paranoia and schizophrenia.
Those most at risk for developing anemia include pregnant or breastfeeding women, older women, infants, toddlers and adolescents. Only 2 percent of males, compared with 9 percent of females, are diagnosed with anemia. Individuals who consume large amounts of alcohol are more susceptible to developing folic acid deficiency anemia, due to the fact that alcohol interferes with the metabolic processing of folic acid.
A doctor can check iron and folic acid levels in your blood to determine whether you have anemia. Upon diagnosis, he may instruct you to follow a specific course of nutrition and supplementation. Foods that provide necessary levels of iron to combat iron deficiency anemia include liver, lean red meat, poultry, fish, wheat germ and green leafy vegetables. Foods that provide high levels of folic acid include fresh and uncooked fruits and vegetables, whole grains, spinach, broccoli and orange juice. Drinking orange juice is also a good way to get vitamin C, which the body needs to help with iron absorption. Your doctor may also recommend limiting tea consumption and avoiding antacids, as both have been shown to interfere with this process.
Berkeley police today announced the arrest of two suspects in the fatal shooting in December of a wheelchair-bound man.
Police arrested Gregory Foote, 19, this morning in Hayward and U.S. Marshals arrested Khalil Phanor, an 18-year-old San Leandro resident, in Everett, Washington on Thursday in connection with the Dec. 29, 2014 shooting, which killed 36-year-old Kamahl Middleton and injured a woman with him, according to police.
Today’s announcement brings to four the total number of arrests in the shooting, which took place in a parking lot near San Pablo and University avenues around 9:45 p.m.
Police previously arrested, Carl Young, a 20-year-old San Leandro resident, on Thursday Feb. 19 in Oakland, as well as a 17-year-old San Leandro resident.
On Monday, prosecutors charged Young and Phanor with murder and the special circumstance of committing a murder during the course of a robbery, which carries a potential penalty of life in prison without parole or the death penalty.
An assault with a firearm charge was also filed in connection with the shooting in the arm of a woman who was with Middleton but survived her injuries.
Prosecutors allege that Phanor was the suspect who shot Middleton and the female victim.
According to Middleton’s LinkedIn profile, he graduated from San Francisco State University in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in marketing.
Middleton said in his profile that he had been chief marketing officer for Natural Energy Company since 1996.
The case remains under investigation. Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call homicide investigators at (510) 981-5741 or police at (510) 981-5900. Anonymous tips can be made by calling Bay Area Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 222-8477.
In 1948, a California plane crash killed mostly migrant farm workers who were being sent back to Mexico. The media at the time just identified them as "deportees" and they were buried in a mass grave. The incident was immortalized by folk singer Woody Guthrie in his poem and iconic and enduring protest song, "Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee) with its haunting lines: "Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?/The radio says, "They are just deportees."
Decades later, one of the country's most exciting young writers and the son and grandson of California and Texas migrant workers decided to give a real voice to these forgotten plane crash victims. After years of research and investigation, Tim Z. Hernandez gave these "deportees" a place in history through his recently published book, "All They Will Call You."
NBC sat down with Hernandez to discuss his experience in researching and writing the book, which was published by the University of Arizona Press’s prestigious Camino del Sol Latina/o literary series.
NBC Latino: Bringing the story of the “deportees” out of the shadows has been an important journey for you. Your research managed to uncover their names and you led the charge to erect a monument with those names over the communal grave in Holy Cross Cemetery in Fresno, CA.
How did these efforts become personal for you and what sort of pressures did you encounter as a writer making tough choices about what particular stories to highlight in All They Will Call You?
TZH:I begin the book with an “Author’s Note,” in which I describe to the reader my investment in this story. It begins with my own grandfather, a farm worker his entire life, who I had the opportunity to conduct a recorded interview with during his last days. Having witnessed firsthand the silences in my grandfather’s life, which were very much the silences of the campesino/ immigrant experience, I had always imagined myself being able to one day speak on his behalf.
I didn’t have the words in those early years. But it was an experience I had felt numerous times while growing up, witnessing my family navigate the obstacles and aggressions of everyday life: When my uncle was shot and killed by the police while unarmed, when my father was canned from his job of 17 years without any justifiable reason, when my mother got breast cancer and was stricken with fear—in each of these instances they were silenced, left without the proper words or recourse, they were rendered immobile almost.
And as a young man, witnessing this, you can’t help but want to speak, to burst, to explode forth with language. So I began seeking words in my early twenties. My investment in the story of the plane crash at Los Gatos Canyon, and the 28 unnamed passengers, as much as the story of Bea Franco, the Mexican Girl, (in the book Mañana Means Heaven) comes from this initial impulse, to speak on behalf of the silenced, on behalf of the dead, those who do not have the words to speak from the margins, or from the forgotten chasms of history.
NBC Latino: One of the more compelling features in the book is how expansive the cast of characters becomes. You include not only the 28 Mexican deportees and the 4 white crew members but also the eyewitnesses, the descendants of the deceased, and even the Woody Guthrie song (which gives the book its title)—so many pieces come together to create a portrait of grief at an international scale, though it can also be seen as a story about loss and recovery. What else do you hope readers will take away from learning about this particular event?
TZH: The story is expansive, and I definitely made an ambitious choice by trying to cover it all, but at the end of the day, I only included those elements that were absolutely vital to the story.
My goal was to convey, to highlight, and to elevate the human factor in this incident, from as many angles as possible. You don’t only get the perspective, or humanity, behind the Mexican passengers, because that would be such a disservice to the potential of this story.
You also get the life of the pilot and his wife, and a peek into the genealogy of the immigration officer, as much as a peek into the mechanics of the vessel that transported them all.
This story was so imbued with metaphor, symbolism, weight, that all I had to do was commit to telling as thorough a story as possible, and I felt confident the reader will make his or her own meaning of it.
The more I dug into the story, the more angles I kept discovering. There was/ is an inherent synchronicity in this story, and it had a profound impact on people inside and outside of the crash, and the more I teased all of this out, the more it became apparent just how much we are all truly inter-connected as human beings on this planet.
Just as those 32 passengers were, we too are in this ship together, all of us sharing the same fate. It’s just as Woody Guthrie wrote in his lyrics: Both sides of the river, we die just the same.
NBC Latino: You refer to the book as a “documentary novel” as opposed to “historical fiction." How and when did you arrive at this designation?
TZH: That classification was the most accurate and honest one that we (my publisher and I) felt best represented how this book was written, and how the reader should enter it. The word “documentary” brings to mind the idea of “documentation,” or “documents,” which describes the material I used for much of the book’s narrative. I used official records, accident reports, immigration documents, letters, postcards, photos, and evidence of this nature as one means of information.
The word “documentary” brings to mind the genre of “documentary film.” People in general are familiar with documentary films, especially these days. When viewing documentary films we enter with some basic guidelines, or agreements. We know that what we will be viewing is based on some “true account” of a particular actual incident.
And then—and here is the most interesting aspect of documentary films—we know that there will also be “re-enactments,” or “re-imaginings,” of specific scenarios. even if the re-enactment is a moment that no one could possibly know for sure, for instance, the first words spoken by a pilgrim when they landed at Plymouth Rock.
When given the opportunity to actually enter a three dimensional space with the characters and people of that time, to see it for ourselves with our own eyes and become a participant it, we are willing, and grateful, to suspend disbelief. This is the power of the “re-enactment,” especially when it’s substantiated by testimony and records.
NBC Latino: California’s agricultural heartland has been an important setting for all three of your novels, and you are part of that region’s rich Chicano literary landscape that includes such writers as Gary Soto, Juan Felipe Herrera and Manuel Muñoz. Why does the struggle of the Mexican/ Chicano working class continue to be such an important (and necessary) literary territory?
The perpetuation of a single story that is meant to define a group of people - whether the intention is good or bad - is never a good idea, because humanity is far more complex and nuanced than that.
The more stories we hear about an incident, a group of people, or an individual, the more well-rounded perspective we get. And this is what allows us to cultivate compassion toward one another.
This is why it’s not only important to write narratives about the “Mexican/ Chicano working class,” it’s vital to write and read narratives about all peoples, so that we continue to have a well informed and peaceful dialogue among one another.
NBC Latino: Your three novels trace an interesting trajectory of your growth as a chronicler and storyteller. The books become increasingly ambitious and complex, and the latest narrative covers a wider physical and emotional territory. Where do you see yourself traveling next and what lessons are you taking with you to the next project?
TZH: I do feel that this specific book was truly the one I was meant to write, and perhaps, that all the books and performances that have come before were practice, leading up to this one. Maybe I should feel this way about every book, but this one really allowed me to utilize all the tools in my box.
I’ve spent most of my adult life working in different mediums and forms, and this book reflects that. It is poetry, it is music, visual art, oral history and prose. For the time being, I’m trying hard to not think about moving quickly into the next writing project, but instead, allowing for this book to continue to work its medicine—on me, the community, and the families involved.
Also, I’ve grown more and more skeptical about getting too caught up in the factory of book-making. For me books are my ticket to get into the world, shake hands with people, share meals, and have conversations about how to better our lives, collectively and individually.
I no longer feel pulled so much by the writing itself, as I do by the direct intimate exchanges with people beyond my immediate scope of community. I’ve been thinking a lot about what this might mean for me in the near future, where it might lead me. Perhaps toward another kind of narrative medium, maybe film or back to performance.
I admire people like Harry Smith, or what Folkways did back in the early 20th century—travel the country gathering oral histories and songs from the margins of society. Or more recently, I admire the work that Quintan Ana Wikswo is doing by going into spaces of grief and gathering memory via photos and audio.
Recording what is already there is an extremely interesting prospect that I feel poses a lot of possibilities. Whatever form my work takes, it will be another step in the evolution of these tools I’ve been gathering along the way.
LOS ANGELES — Game wardens say nature — not man — is to blame for nearly a dozen brown pelicans that have surfaced along California”s Central Coast with huge puncture wounds in their chest.
Sea lions and pelicans have been competing for baitfish, which are coming in unusually close to shore this year prompting feeding frenzies in the Port San Luis Harbor and Avila Beach areas, said State Fish and Game spokesman Andrew Hughan on Wednesday. Tests showed that the unsettling wounds found in some injured pelicans were caused by sea lions.
Known for their dog-like bark and tendency to laze about marinas, California sea lions are voracious eaters, periodically raising the ire of fishermen for stealing their catch. Both sea lions and pelicans rely on fish for a large part of their diet.
Four of seven wounded birds that were captured in recent days had to be euthanized because of severe injuries. Four other pelicans with gaping wounds couldn”t be caught.
A veterinarian treating some of the birds said their injuries appeared to have been caused by a knife or other sharp object. Officials earlier surmised the pelicans could be injuring themselves on rocks as they dive for baitfish, but would not rule out foul play.
A kayaker saw a sea lion attacking and dragging a pelican underwater and necropsy results confirmed sea lions were indeed biting the birds.
While unusual, such attacks are not unprecedented. Officials say there have been similar incidents in the northern part of the state.
Todd Tognazzini, DFG Law Enforcement said it”s not clear if the injuries were caused by one rogue animals or several.
The Sundance Film Festival is an essential stop for movie buffs, but if you didn't make it out to the snow-covered festivities, don't fret. We've got you covered!
ET's Chris Jacobs braved the cold streets of Utah, catching up with Emily Blunt and Rosemarie DeWitt who dished on their much buzzed about film, Your Sister's Sister.
The girls tease not one, but three scenes in bed together, but before folks get the wrong idea, Blunt explains the dark comedy has her playing sister to DeWitt in the film.
Kate Bosworth, Lake Bell, Victoria Justice, and Chris Rock, also open up about their new projects.
Watch the above video for more!
Have a look at the upcoming PSP version of Final Fantasy III.
The game, which hit both the DS and the iOS, will allow players to play through FFIII with the game's original music. It's also has an "auto battle" feature that doubles the speed of the battles for automatic fighting.
It'll be out in Japan on September 20.
Ten people were charged federally after an April 5 raid at the Southeastern Provision slaughterhouse in Bean Station.
Five more workers rounded up during an ICE raid at a Grainger County slaughterhouse are pleading guilty to federal immigration charges.
The five are among 10 who were charged last month during a federal operation at Southeastern Provision in Bean Station. Federal authorities allege plant owner James Brantley had hired dozens of workers illegally and was paying them illegally, records show.
Brantley has not been charged.
The 10, in custody, are from Mexico or Guatemala. They were indicted after the April 5 raid on charges of failing to obey deportation laws or illegally returning to the United States after being ordered out.
Other workers also were detained in the raid. Immigration advocates say some of those have since been moved to Louisiana to face further scrutiny by immigration authorities.
With the guilty pleas, a total of eight of the 10 people arrested have now signaled guilt. Two others, Virgen Mendoza Perez and Pablo Tivurcio-Lopez are awaiting prosecution in U.S. District Court in Greeneville, records show.
The counts to which the eight are pleading address failure to leave the country or illegal entry after removal from the United States.
The eight, records show, are identified as Evelio Alejandro Bravo-Arreaga; David Perez-Bartelon; Jose Roblero-Bravo; Marvin Oriel Marroquin-Lopez; Domingo Gregorio-Domingo; Antonio Garcia-Martin; Fidel Silva-Silva; and Mateo Gomez-Pablo.
Marroquin-Lopez and Gregorio-Domingo were in court Tuesday in Greeneville.
Federal agents raided the slaughterhouse after receiving a tip that the owners were skirting tax and payroll laws.
Those charged with re-entering the country after being deported face up to two years in prison. Those charged with failing to leave after being ordered out face up to four years.