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Thanks for reading Part 1 in this series of developing your training skills. Part 2 will focus on the tips that relate to confronting our fears. Fears of what others will think, stage fright, fear of mistakes/errors, fear of our body shape or size, fear of how we speak or accent and everything you can categorize as fear. Here are tips for confronting all of the fears: 1.  90% of what we fear, people hardly see. Calm down. 2. We all have flaws and if there's someone without it, he or she is not human. 3.  Your heart is more important than the way you talk, body size/shape or flaws. A genuine interest can cover up for so many flaws. 4. You don't know everything; don't carry yourself as if you do. 5.  Believe in what you carry inside; that is more important. In life, we all know something that someone else doesn't know. 6. Take a couple of deep breath and tell yourself that you will be just fine. 7.  If you find your hands shaking or heart po...

We are all trainers in one way or the other and no one was born with a special skill to train. We develop it and those who are good at it; keep at it while learning everyday. In my years of conducting training, I have come to learn certain lessons which I want to share with everyone that desires to become a trainer or a better one. 1.  You need to have passion : Passion to train others; passion to see improvement in the system; passion to save lives; passion to see people become better at what they do. I moved from a banking career to international development job specifically in health. While I understood training as a whole, the subject matter was strange but I did something: I looked within to find a connection and I realized that the people I train will be responsible for saving other people's lives. That is where I found my passion. 2.  People are key in training:  Content without the people to train is no training so we need to have and show genuine inter...

It is sure hard work to manage training operations globally but it is fun. Where you can easily manage a country, global training operations is another ball game entirely because you are dealing with cultures and people whom you don't see everyday. Thank God for technology that has made communication easier. I want to share few tips for managing global training operations; I hope you find it useful. 1. Have a clear vision, goal and strategy for your global training operations 2. Communicate! Communicate! Communicate!. It is never too much and make it timely. 3. Customize training strategy and plans to each country. Countries differ in culture. 4. Build a community of practice where you can learn from each other. 5. Create a culture of constant improvement. We must constantly evolve to meet today's challenges. 6. Always find opportunities to interact face-to-face and online with the country teams. 7. Don't just track numbers; track training impact to...

I recently attended a seminar at the University of Amsterdam on the role of blended learning in global health education. At the reception after the seminar, a senior colleague made a profound statement which I agree with completely. Simply put in my own words,"Practice makes no meaning without a firmly established theoretical background". I don't know how many of you agree with me but I think it is absolutely important to understand the theory first because theory enables practice. It cuts across all disciplines. What is the role of universities/higher institutions and corporate world in bridging the gap between theory and practice? Most times the universities get so caught up in theory that they leave the application.The corporate world is sometimes adverse to suggestions from the universities saying that it does not work in practice. We must understand that products of higher institutions face the real world immediately after and credibility of study comes when ...