Metacognitive Reflection

TSTM 544 has been one crazy class this semester. It started off being a regular class that taught you the different ways of training people. Initially we were to have tutee for each of our training sessions, but that didn’t work out so well. I also remember taking an emotions test which helped to determine how well you channeled your emotions. This test showed that your career success is not only based upon your experience, skills, and education. Your attitude and how you handle situations can help guide you to the next level.

I think what really got me going in this class is creating a training session at Lowman Homes. This had to be one the most difficult trainings in the class. It wasn’t difficult because of the software. It was difficult because of the amount of people we to go through to get access to certain things to create the training. It took us an entire month of waiting just to hear back from the head person. That’s ridiculous!!! I think if we had the information earlier, we could have had more time to add more into the training. Fortunately I was in a team with great people who knew how to get stuff done. In the end, it was a team effort that made the training session a success.

The one thing that I thought was the most important lesson from this class is that you can never depend on one plan of training to be fool proof. There are so many different ways to conduct training that having a team makes it much easier to complete the task. I don’t think that there is one person in that classroom that could honestly say that they could have completed a training project by themselves. It helps even more when there are people who have different skills that can help make projects a big success. I wonder if there is a thing as one type of training that any type of person can learn from. If so what is it? How can you make your training program be useful to everyone without losing anyone?