I was asked to conduct a training for around 25 people...I was excited and was looking forward to conduct it... Since I had already undergone that training , so I was feeling okay... I prepared little notes about the product... I also discussed few of the points,over which I was not sure, with my trainer...So I was going good..
I am a guitarist and I perform at least twice a year now...I am performing since 1987-88... i.e. it's around 20 yrs when I first publicly performed... I have performed in front of more than 2500-3000 people couple of times... I am not boasting but the matter of fact is I was able to lead my team couple of times to win college cultural championships...I was quite famous for my stage skills in my college days...
When I was asked to conduct training...I took that without any problem... as I have faced more than 2500 people, I thought I can handle it... I have conducted training couple of times but never for more than 5-6 close associates...This time the strength was around five times...There is a difference between training people of your own team, performing in front of 2500 people and train 25+ guys...and yes.. most of the guys of this training was from different teams...so..frankly speaking..I want to put a good impression on them...
So, I wanted to impress people, which is not me...I do what I do... I never try to do something special to impress people...I hate to impersonate...but that's a harsh reality of this professional world... I was going to do something..of course I am talking about impersonation...which I really hate...That thought of impressing people by doing something through the process I do not want to follow...was making me nervous...over conscious...
I booked conference room and projector for after office hours training...I work at different location from the place where I had to conduct training, so I asked one of my colleagues to collect projector from admin...I was supposed to start session at 18:00 hrs, but some of the invitees were absent...I asked people to have patient and wait for few more minutes... finally I started the session around 18:15 hrs...
22 guys was there when I started the session...I was all nervous in the beginning and I forgot to put couple of funny lines...I was mumbling...I was not able to communicate properly...I was also not able to look into eyes of my trainees...To make this situation worse... my laptop was running damn slow...Butttaa... I believe that was a blessing in disguise... It gave me time to catch my breath and which was sufficient enough to decide...DON'T PRETEND...JUST REMAIN WHAT YOU ARE... sooo..there I go... I started doing what I do...tone was high...I regained my confidence...Session went fine after that...
I hate to say this...butttt...let me tell you..... I was scared to death...
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