I could be wrong... But generally, trainers/coaches I work with are so busy helping others, they forget to help themselves. Whilst we all subscribe to continual learning and the classic 'Well, I am learning everyday...' motto - I believe we need to stick ourselves on courses. Not just seminars or Google hangouts, I mean actual courses where another human teaches you stuff.
Why?
Because, it is the richest learning that us developers can do...It is 'double learning.' You learn the 'stuff' of the day but just as importantly (if not more?) You get to watch them help you and others to learn. Q. What do they do that engages the group/you? Q. What is irritating about their style? (There is a theory that if they do something that really, really irritates you... It is possibly something that you do but you are unaware of it?!)
I have had this experience recently on a course watching another teaching us and it was a massive learning experience to remind myself the key lesson:
A captive audience is not always a good thing. We have a lot of power as a trainer to make people feel 'safe to learn' in the environment we create. Or, we can make people (even adults) feel stupid, incapable and challenged in a non helpful way.
Call to action. Go on a course run by a trainer you don't know with people you don't know. This will remind you of what it is like to be 'one of them.'
Best wishes
Paul
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