Often when I am giving a course, I am asked what are they going to gain from the course and what is the content.
This request usually comes from potential participants who have some idea of the subject matter or who have attended another course from another trainer.
This is a difficult answer to give, as I do not know the standard of training nor the content of previous courses, or what the potential participants has taken in, learned, retained from a course or a book.
I try and give content, but when in the course, I find that the participants already know and are competent, there is no point in rerunning and wasting time, also, if I find that there is a subject matter which can be explained better by introducing a new concept, I will cover it, not leave it out just because it is not on the “list”.
On occasions I have had participants who have sat in the course, with a list of expected content, and ticked each element as it was covered. If it was not named explicitly, then they left cheated.
Upon noticing this list, probably obtained from other trainers or course providers, I would have to look at it and tick off for them what we had covered, renaming some of the content so that it would fulfill their needs. Perhaps the word “pilot” for example would be a subject, but on their list it was “aviator“. Different “cat on the mat“.
I noticed that these people never added on the extra content I taught to their list.
I teach pure subjects, direct from the originators, Richard Bandler, John Ginder, Paul Scheele, Tony Buzan, Win Wenger, Ormond Mcgill, Graham Alexander, NGH, etc those from whom I have learned by being with them learning directly, not from their books, not from someone else, who learned from someone else who heard it from someone else. Where required, offering a license, a certificate from the appropriate organisation, The Society of NLP, the NGH, from Learning Strategies.
What will they gain? It is up to them.
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