How you get more than you give

I got to conduct my first ever training session 24 years ago in an interesting place where I surprisingly and thankfully learnt the power of listening and how it solves problems, brings people together and helps us build better things.

Years later, I still go into a training session as much to learn from the participants as much as I am duty bound to share with them. And I come out better learned than before.

In September this year, I had to facilitate a session on strengths-based management; one among the many I have had the privilege of facilitating and learning from.

One of the principles of strengths-psychology to management is that different people can come to the same result using a variety of non-exhaustive list of behaviours. Essentially there can be hundreds of HOWs in which one can get to the same result and not just the few that a manager knows of and wants their team members to follow when they may not have the natural talent to get there as easily as the manager.

In highlighting this, I had carried with me a message I had received from my Reiki teacher Jayaraj Sir in one of his morning posts about how can the word How be written.

And that's what I wrote on the flipchart that you see attached to this post.

But I didn't begin by writing it. I just wrote the letters H, O and W one below the other and kept encouraging the participants to keep thinking of the various possible acronyms to HOW and completed it only at the end of the 2 day session.

And here's the best one I got from a participant named Arun: Help Others Win!!

Simple and Profound.

Isn't it?!!

What are some of the most amazing lessons you have learnt from your training participants or students?

By the way, that interesting place where I first conducted a training programme as a young 24 year old was the old Gwalior Central Jail in Madhya Pradesh.

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