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Unit 9: Trainer’s Style

9.3 Trainer’s Styles and Grid Notes

9.3.1 Trainer’s Style

The following are the significant trainer’s styles:
Unique: Trainers have the personal task of performing diverse functions. In carrying out those
functions they develop their own style that suits them and they find effective. Effective trainers
vary widely when they specify their training goals for participants and also their own training
styles. Some aim to develop self-awareness in them, others to bring new knowledge to bear on
practical problems, etc.
Appropriate: Appropriateness in turn requires adaptability experience trainers have wide variety
of concepts and skills they can draw on any time and choose them to use in any situation.
Flexible: This refers to trainer’s specific behaviour, which should suit the situational need tactfully,
handled and taken care of.

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Caution Change or learning has to be introduced slowly as rapid leaning does not yield
positive results.
The trainer’s style should be flexible enough to give necessary space to the individual needs,
group needs and the training needs.

9.3.2 Trainer Grid

It is also the first that is typically exhibited during training delivery. Establishing and maintaining
credibility has to do with the trainer’s ability to leverage personal conduct, social practices,
professionalism, and content expertise to command attention and respect from learners and
other stakeholders (such as the learners’ immediate supervisors). When you possess credibility,
you build learner’s interest. When you lack credibility, learners may experience unmet
expectations, disillusionment, and an unwillingness to apply what they learned. (See Figure 9.2)
Your credibility is extremely important because it reinforces the importance of the training to
the learners. You can take action to establish, maintain, and build credibility with learners. This
is accomplished by what you say and what you do.

Figure 9.2: Trainer’s Grid

Personal
Conduct

Trainer Credibility

Content Social
Expertise Practices

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