Is the trainer recommendation obliged
for a work as a trainer?
POZNAN: As I mentioned earlier —
there are no legal requirements for people
who want to work as trainers. This means
that anyone who has an idea of providing
training, can open the business as a trainer.
You don’t need to confirm competence by
certificates, to have the right to practice
the profession. A large group of trainers
confirms its competences not through
certificates and recommendations, but
by informing about the training program,
which they finished.
In Poland, there are several training of
trainers programmes which prestige and
recognition in the environment translates
into recognition of their participants as
having appropriate competences.
At the same time trainers recommendations
operate in the market as the most reliable
and objective confirmations of preparation
and experience of the trainers.
The recommendation is recognised at
the national level yes. Unfortunately we
have no information on the recognition
recommendation PTP or STOP abroad.
Some trainers program schools refer
the certification process to the European
Qualifications Framework (EQF) which
defines acquired knowledge, skills and
competences.
Would you change anything in the
system for granting a recommendation,
is something is missing?
POZNAN & Plano A: For us it is obvious
that in every country there are different
recommendations or parallel certification
processes. The same is the case with trainers.
The biggest difficulty is the absence of a law
on the profession of a trainer and executive
acts, which regulate the requirements,
particularly ethical to trainers.
Competence certifications is common
term. What is exactly a competence
or what kinds of competences do you
identify? Which methods can be used
to certificate a Competence?
Plano A: A competence is a capability
that someone has in a certain area.
There are different kind of competences.
The ‘know how to know’, the ‘know how
to do’ and the ‘know how to be’.
In Portugal there’s a very detailed frame
of reference regarding competence
certification called RCC for those that
don’t have their competences academically
certificated. Those RCC try to identifying
the technical and practical competences,
provide the theoretical background behind
the already acquired competences in
order to obtain, through certification,
Plano A: As said before [editor’s postscript]: a equivalent to a determined academical
level. Giving an example, a person that
In Portugal there are 300.000 registered
trainers in the National Trainers Association, starts working in a bakery and after some
though many of them use the activity as a years is a wonderful baker without ever
second job, something else other than that being in a cooking school.
person’s main job and many don’t actually
work as trainers.
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