{"id":348,"date":"2009-05-21T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.wpdude.com\/test\/?p=348"},"modified":"2009-05-21T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T17:32:00","slug":"unteachable-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/05\/unteachable-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Unteachable People?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This post by fellow Brightonian Julia Chanteray <\/strong><\/a>* on people she can’t work with got me thinking…Now normally I say I’m the uber-trainer and course participants are marzipan in my pudgy flip chart swishing fingers…however it got me wondering if some people are just unteachable?<\/strong> <\/div>\n

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I know, I know…it’s not nice and a bad workman blames his fools but I’m going to put both my unteachable ego and PC objections aside and talk about unteachable people.<\/p>\n

Characteristics of Unteachable People<\/strong>
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I can’t train people who don’t want to learn<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Which is why I never accept people on courses who have been told by managers they have to be there. Waste of my time and theirs. Forcing someone to learn is like pulling on a blade of grass to make it grow faster. This argument taken to it’s extreme form means there is no teaching at all actually – only facilitating and coaching.<\/div>\n

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I can’t train people who don’t want to change<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Learning involves change. There is no way around this. I can however motivate people and encourage the love to overcome the fear.<\/div>\n

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I can’t train really stoopid people<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, yes, there are different learning styles and multiple intelligences and it’s best not to judge people…but maybe there are just a few plain ‘ole morons out there? I’ve also noticed the better the trainer the less I hear them whine about this however so I’d better be careful…<\/p>\n

That’s about it I think…<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Training So What:<\/span> People can learn, some won’t.<\/div>\n
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* Julia’s session on marketing cocaine last night at the Brighton and Hove Chamber of Commerce was fab too. I should clarify it was just a make-believe exercise on business planning. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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