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Discover practical tips from Greg on how to provide the best training experience. This includes identifying trainees' strengths, giving challenging yet engaging tasks, and exposing them to diverse work and people. Avoid assigning menial or long-term tasks, and encourage trainees to build their own network of experts to ask for guidance. Attend important meetings to foster involvement and growth. Remember, micromanaging can hinder learning.
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Top Tips from Greg How to provide the best training experience
Top Tips Work out what your trainees are good at already. Let them do what they are good at v rarely (just for self valediction and confidence boost). They will always be good at what they are good at Work out what they aren't good at. Make them do it. Easy jobs at first then increasing difficulty They are v clever people. Let them prove it
Top Tips Give them decent chunky jobs that require sizeable period of time. And require lots of brain power. Make sure they are interesting jobs and not noddy jobs Stretch them as far as they appear willing to be stretched Exposure to lots of different types of work And lots of different types of people and functions ..... Is important
Top Tips • Make sure they create their own network of "experts to ask" - methodoligical and topic specific experts. Reduces reliance on trainer. More satisfying for trainee • Avoid giving your trainees the rubbish jobs that nobody else wants to do • Avoid giving trainees responsibilities tasks that are ongoing and can't be picked up after they leave (as there is nobody to do so)........ Hep C springs to mind - a classic "give it to an spr as there is nobody else" job
TopTips • Recognise that the trainee might never be part of the "proper" team - but they do want to be involved • Personally I don't bring trainees to consultant in ph meetings (they are dull!) • Make sure you take your trainees to the "big" meetings. You know the ones - the big powows with big cheeses
Top Tips • Don't micromanage. They are there to learn - don't over bollock them if they don't quite get it / understand it or muck up first time