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Finding time for God How can they develop 15
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By Bill Allen
the skills for the job

We spoke a few issues back experience, and that they have who is already doing a similar they do make mistakes
about the magical night sleep a training plan in place to help task or job. Known as the “bud- in the learning phase that
that newly promoted people them mature into a skilled dy system.” There is a potential they are given a hard time
are expected to have, so they worker. It is even more crucial drawback if the “buddy” likes to over the mistakes as they
can come in the next day fully if the person is worried about cut corners when they do the are an essential part of the
competent for the task ahead. their ability to do the job, and job, they are likely to pass on development process.
Clearly it doesn’t happen, yet they will definitely need the en- the bad habits to the trainee.
we must presume that people couragement of their line man- Pick your “buddy” carefully. 3. Learning
think it does as they put a per- ager.
son into a new position, or ask To avoid that, you could show They say we learn the
them to do a new task, yet do We spoke previously about the them yourself, but of course most by our mistakes and
not provide a training and de- four stages of development that is quite labour intensive for during the practice phase,
velopment plan for the person. we go through in the learning you. So, it is probably better to we are bound to have Bill Allen is a Speaker, trainer, glass
process, (unconscious incom- “buddy” the person up and then made many. Equally, breaker, copy writer and virtual sales
There is a very strong warning petence, conscious incompe- keep a watchful eye on the pro- those who do not get train- manager. He has a passion for effec-
in 1 Timothy 3:6 that we should tence, conscious competence, cess. ing have to work out a way tiveness and efficiency, which he used
not put a novice in a place of and finally unconscious com- of doing it for themselves. to great effect as both the Event Director
responsibility, in case by being petence) but there is equally External training can be useful They are not likely to do it of the Christian Resources Exhibition,
lifted up they might suffer from a four-step process to help a as a professional trainer can as well, and there is every the Head of Sales for the Bible Societies
pride and fall into the condem- person through the stages of ensure standards are met and danger that they will take book publishing division, and whilst still
nation incurred by the devil. development: that the person feels confident longer doing it. running his own consultancy – The Busi-
about their abilities. ness Improvement Specialist.
Whilst this is discussing 1. Training You may have suffered
Spiritual matters, it is true that 2. Practice from this, especially if you He has a passion for helping individuals,
a novice really has so much There are many ways that we are like many who have company leaders and companies to im-
to learn in any new situation. can ensure a person is prop- We must give a person a never had any training prove in all aspects of their business and
They need to be properly man- erly trained. Not always is it chance to practice what they on Microsoft Office yet life. He offers one to one coaching, gives
aged to ensure they realise the person’s line manager who have learnt, and you must be have to use it day to day. seminars or training courses on his effec-
what knowledge they need, needs to provide the training, it prepared for them to make If you were like me, then tiveness and efficiency course for Chris-
what they will learn through can be provided by a colleague mistakes. It is vital that when you would have just used tians known as “Finding Time for God”.
the intuitive nature of it You can read his blogs at
to get started and then improvementspecialist.co.uk
build your knowledge
over time. As a result, I
am not using it fully, and cer- This four-step process was the
tainly, I am not familiar with all foundation of the apprentice
the time-saving shortcuts. As scheme in the previous centu-
an example, you don’t need ries, and as a result, they pro-
to use a mouse and the key- duced skilled carpenters, sil-
board all the time if you know versmiths, painters, tailors and
all the shortcuts in “Word”? many more professions that
require a highly skilled person
Let’s ensure they get properly to do the job.
trained in stage one.
It is in our interest for the per-
4. Experience son to reach the fourth level of
development, where they can
If we have properly trained just “do it” with unconscious
them, given them the oppor- competence. We will achieve
tunity to practice, helped them this if we use the four-step
learn through their mistakes, method properly, otherwise,
then finally they are ready to they may have to jump to stage
reach stage four where they three and work it out for them-
gain even more knowledge selves and it will certainly be
through “doing” and in time longer for them to gain the nec-
the rough diamond has the essary experience, which is a
edges knocked off and they waste of time for all.
become a sparkling shiny di-
amond.

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