Our Approach
Over the years the Bettertraining.net approach to people development has been profoundly successful. Many participants describe our courses as “life changing events”. This is largely due to the strategies we’ve developed, tested and fine tuned for more than 10 years. Here is what makes our approach unique.
An Inside Out Approach
The biggest challenge in people development is NOT upgrading their skill-sets. It’s changing their mindsets!
That’s why in every BetterTraining.net course, Personal Development precedes Professional Development. You simply cannot work better when you’re character, personality and habits are getting in the way.
Once personal challenges have been dealt with, participants experience an acceleration in professional skills development.
Similarly, the challenge when training managers and developing leaders, is often lack of personal or professional development. The manager who cannot relate to people or organize his own desk is never going to effectively lead others.
Once you have a strong personal & professional foundation, Management Development can target true leadership skills such as motivating people, developing strategy and achieving results.
A Real World Approach
Behavioural Modelling is the most advanced approach for successful skills transfer. In almost every field, throughout human history there has been outstanding individuals who achieved the results you want to achieve. Those individuals often go against the mainstream wisdom and the blur of academic theory, but still manage to show more tangible real world results.
BetterTraining.net courses are based on the proven performance of those who excel at the targeted skills and competencies. By researching, documenting and modelling the behavior that led to their outstanding results, we uncover the concepts, principles and procedures required to master those skills.
We then switch from research to creativity, designing exercises, games & simulations that allow people to experience those skills first hand, again and again, until they become part of their natural habitual behavior.
A Practice Based Approach
If you go to the gym and just listen to an instructor talk about fitness, we guarantee you will not get fit!
Similarly if you are learning to play a musical instrument, you can’t just sit and listen to the instructor, while taking notes.
Yet, when it comes to personal & professional development, that seems to be the common approach. People sit in a training room, listening to an expert talk about new skills and hope to acquire new skills!
At BetterTraining.net we take a practice based approach. Our courses rely on custom designed exercises, games, challenges and simulations. During our renowned ”Presentation & Public Speaking” training, every participant will deliver between 17 and 25 presentations ranging from 60 seconds to 15 minutes!
This repeated practice, with feedback from the trainer and continuous improvement results in instinctive performance in the real world. You don’t even need to think about putting your new skills to work, you just do it!
