We all know from our school days and early work experience that there are good and some terrible teachers, and teaching is to impart knowledge, training however is practical education or so the concise dictionary tells us.
Why do people think that because they know something about a subject or even know the job inside out, that they have that gift of communication, of getting things over in a construtive manner that spures the pupil to want to succeed.
Now bear in mind that I have been a trainer on oriental rug restoration and carpet repairing for over 20 years and have probebly met more franchisees, loss ajusters, loss assessors, claims inspectors, and CCs for training and most importantly the follow up. "A lifetimes hotline" that still keeps me in touch with the grass roots.
The lack of professional preparation and approach is the biggest let down, I do not do stain removal now but when I did every student had an A4 size bound plain wool sampler and on it would be 15 seperate circular stains four tea and four coffee stains, one of each was one hour old, one day, one week, and one month old, there was also one each of Rust, Polish, Oil, Lipstick, Eye Shadow, Tar, and Latex, the same would be repeated on a plain synthetic bound sampler and these after being worked on would be taken home by the student. and what do I hear on the grape vine today on that same subject, a rag bag of stained fraying carpet peices of all differant qualitys and colours, some of which had been used before and with no order and little or no presentation.
It is not a nice prospect when the keen newcomers full of enthusiasm and thirsting for knowledge are palmed with "It'll do---They'll be alright"
