Training someone to teach others is an important task, but also a hard one. It requires a good education, work experience, and skilled job performance. Among these three requirements, I believe it is most important that a potential job trainer be judged on the quality of his or her previous work.
Even though a person may be well educated, that person may not be able to perform a job proficiently. A doctor may know how to treat diseases, but may not be able to train medical students to perform a surgery. An accountant may be able to balance a company’s accounts, but may not be able to help the company’s executives invest their money.
A person may have a lot of work experience, but may not be able to perform the job well. Time is not the best measure of quality. A mother may spend 17-years raising her children, but may not be able to train young mothers to take care of their infants. A typist may have typed 10 years’ worth of letters, but may not be able to type over 30 words in a minute.
A person who does his or her job well is the one that you want to train. I want to learn how fly a plane from a pilot who has faced mechanical problems during flights and never had an accident. I want to learn how to make money from a billionaire, not from a salaried investment broker.
As in all things, it is quality that we look for, not general knowledge or time spent in a field. I want others to learn from the best so that they can be the best. |