Do not Be Poor….. Be Rich with the Core (Instructional Design & Train of Trainer TOT)

 Do not Be Poor….. Be Rich with the Core

(Instructional Design & Train of Trainer TOT)
By 
Abdelkarim Darwish, Ph.D

Let us start from combining & re-structuring three elements; knowledge, experiences and results relating to training as the following:

First: Knowledge:

Daniel Pink wrote a book called “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-brainers Will Rule the Future” -New York Times bestseller,  BusinessWeek bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller and  Washington Post bestseller-in which he defined a very important and necessary element (Design) for leading the world through INNOVATION. For example, there is no strong building without a fine structural design.
Second: Experiences:
Knowing what you must know is important as well as necessary, because importance makes things valuable and necessity makes things doable. It requires special knowledge and experience to design a likable and strong building. Without them, nobody would buy it and it wouldn’t last.
Third: Results
Results show that without knowing how to design a structure, we cannot build a nice and strong building. This is why I was shocked when I saw many training materials –in the Arabic region-, namely Train of Trainer (TOT) courses, do not include a Instructional Design element. Instructional Design is considered important as well as necessary for designing the mind of a trainer to be able to design a training course material. This is the very core of business training, and it is missing, resulting in poor training material, and therefore, a poor training course.  So “when missing the core, the result is poor”. If we don’t allow this to happen, if we insist on including what is important and necessary, our training materials would be well structurally designed, therefore it would be rich.

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