Communication Skills of a Trainer: Challenges and Way-forward

Abstract

Trainer is the most important element in a training situation. Very few people are born as a trainer, and most of them who wish to be a good trainer require training for him, to prepare himself to be a ready-man. As a result, those few who are born trainers benefit from training and their effectiveness is enhanced. The trainer who is enthusiastic, energetic and genuinely interested in both the subject and getting his or her message across will evoke the greatest response from the trainees (FAO, 2012). The trainer who lacks interest in training, who has little or no enthusiasm for the subject of the training and who merely goes through the motions of training is a failure. Such a trainer wastes not only his or her own time but also that of the trainees. Communication requires a sender, a message, and a recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space. Communication requires that the communicating parties share an area of communicative commonality (Kadam & Others, 2018). The communication process is complete once the receiver has understood the message of the sender.