5 Responses

1. Thinks????
   Matthew

   Given your description of your situation I’m intrigued to know “Why You?”

   This seems to be a not uncommon occurance in the training area, and I’m trying to compile a list of reasons why people are being assigned tasks they aren’t obviously best suited to perform.

   Is it cost cutting, corner cutting, a misapprehension of what it takes to create a course, any combination thereof, or what?

2. Check out Albert
   Matthew

   As a more direct answer to your question, may I suugest that you check out Albert Bandura’s work on “self-efficacy”. There’s a wealth of free material on the internet. Emory University, in particular has masses of material, links, etc. See:

   http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/effpage.html

   Good luck

3. Material for Confidence Building
   A book called ‘Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway’ by Susan Jeffers will inspire you. You will get some good material and ideas for your course. If you send me your email address I’ll send you some more suggestions. helen.senior@cpc.co.uk

4. Free confidence-building course
   Is this any help?

   http://www.self-confidence.co.uk/

5. Assertiveness Training Unit
   Matthew

   I’ve developed a half day Assertiveness training package complete with trainer’s notes, presentation slides and workbooks which I’ve developed for people who are called to deliver training but are not experienced trainers themselves.

   Contact me on 07979 963 353 or email me at michael@mhconsult.com for more information.