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Why I’m Shifting My Coaching Business to Focus on Working with Trainers
Why I’m Shifting My Coaching Business to Focus on Working with Trainers

About a year ago my training partner and I were speaking with a client who told us that another trainer they worked with was frustrated because her RFP’s were consistently being rejected. She felt she was being treated unfairly and had filed a formal complaint; this was exacerbated when she found out we were being offered repeat work, without having to go through the RFP process at all. What she did not know (nor was she told, which is a whole other blog post), was that her trainings were deeply ineffective,

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TrainingNatalie Gallaghertraining, teaching, development, coaching, learningComment
3 Signs You Need to Fire Your Coach
3 Signs You Need to Fire Your Coach

A couple of weeks ago a speaker asked for my feedback on a speech she was working on with another coach, for a large event. We scheduled a phone session, and she had her coach on the line so we’d all be on the same page. When she was done with the read-through of her speech, it was pretty clear that she was way off the mark. Her speech lacked a clear purpose

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TrainingNatalie Gallaghercoaching, training, learning, feedback, developmentComment
How to Keep Your Audience Engaged While Training
How to Keep Your Audience Engaged While Training

A decade ago I spent two weeks participating (as a learner) in a corporate training for the education company that I worked for at the time. I had high hopes, as we were an organization focused on teaching kids how to learn effectively; unfortunately, that philosophy didn’t carry over into training for the employees. We spent the entirety of the two weeks listening to droning lectures,

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TrainingNatalie GallagherTraining, brain science, Education, learningComment
The Difference Between a Facilitator and a Trainer
The Difference Between a Facilitator and a Trainer

Beforehand, all of the facilitators were asked to attend a training session because we came from various professional backgrounds, and they wanted to make sure we were all on the same page as to what our goals and responsibilities were. Most importantly, because many of us were coaches and trainers (and used to being in the spotlight!) we needed to understand the clear difference between being a facilitator versus being a trainer.

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TrainingNatalie GallagherTrainer, Facilitator, learning, education, coachingComment