Trainers and coaches

[Emmk]

Hi all. We are looking to provide corporate training, however we need trainers. Our training model comprises of IT training e.g training their project managers to effectively use agile etc.

What’s the best way to get trainers, LinkedIn? Thanks

 

[fisicx]

Pay a recruiter to go find suitable candidates. You then interview and employ those best suited to your needs.

I suspect however corporations will have already employed project managers with agile proficiency (and other skills).

 

[Ozzy]

If you already have an audience of customers, then you could tender delivery of the training to sub-contractors - but that only works if you already have your customers lined up. This is how organisations like the Chamber of Commerce and FSB work.

 

[Paul Norman]

You have entered a mine field

As someone who provides training, and assesses trainers, I can tell you that most people believe the basic requirements of being a trainer are:

1. Not dribbling whilst you talk
2. Being able to string two pieces of actual knowledge out for a 3 hour session of tedious, energy sapping pointlessness.

Increasing, number 1 is becoming optional.

If you want your training to be a box tick exercise, pumped out at £30 per bum on seat, this if fine.

Otherwise, whether you recruit and employ, or use sub contractors, you are going to need to sift through a lot of really quite poor trainers to find the good ones. And put in the effort to do that. LinkedIn will turn up a list of around 67654387654 candidates, of whom 3 will be amazing.

 

[Mark T Jones]

Presumably you are seeking people who already possess both the product knowledge and the skills to train? Or are you looking to teach/develop one of those skills?

Are you looking for employees or sub-contractors?

These things matter!

 

[mattk]

What exactly is your company providing? Are you just a middle man between clients and freelance trainers, are you going to be producing training materials which freelancers train from or do you want to employ trainers directly?

 

[Alan]

Pay a recruiter to go find suitable candidates. You then interview and employ those best suited to your needs.

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I suspect however corporations will have already employed project managers with agile proficiency (and other skills).

Not sure, maybe times have changed, but certainly over my corporate life I got a lot of specific skill development training. Generally I think it is better to give career development within a corporation than to constantly recruit skills that have been developed externally, not least because it is an expensive approach.