I have 15 years of marketing experience, and have always been given feedback that I present and interact with groups very well. This has led me to seriously consider becoming a training consultant. This looks like a really enjoyable career path and would make good use of my well-honed communication skills.
Can anyone suggest how I could go about becoming a trainer? My preference is to work in an organisation or consultancy rather than be freelance.
Many thanks. Alan Whyte.
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CIM?
Hi Alan,
With your wealth of experience in marketing, have you checked out possibilities or advice from CIM? As they run lots of courses for the professional development of folk in marketing, they might be able to find a good use for your talents.
Good luck.
Jane
Thanks Jane – will look into the CIM route.
— Alan Whyte (Marketer considering a career in training)
A competent practitioner
Alan
As a way of enabling TrainerBase to recommend its members, a group of 11 of us put together what we believed was a comprehensive framework for a competent practitioner. Whilst this is not designed to provide specifics it does cover the overarching requirements for becoming a trainer (learning and development practitioner.
Please feel free to download from
http://www.trainerbase.info/documents/tbstandard01.pdf
and review to evaluate your ‘fit’ against standard. And if you have any queries please contact me.
Peter Mayes
Founder of TrainerBase
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