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Sharing and Caring
Courtesy of Julianto Subekti
" Training Session "
Training Within Our Cultural Differences
>> By: Julianto Subekti, Trainer Lead
To be honest, I had a lot of doubt in my job. I didn’ t come from IT background, and I wasn’ t sure if my experience was enough to be appointed as a Lead Trainer. Nevertheless, it was a challenge that I welcomed and I hoped, aside from implementing and training others, I will also train myself to be better in every way as an implementor.
Never in my life I came across to such a unique situation. I had to go from Jakarta to Mojokerto in 9 weeks, with prior training of only one week. The place that I’ m assigned to needed to have two kinds of distribution, which was unheard of in the history of implementation ever. I tried to be positive, of course. I was trained well, and my knowledge about the whole product and distribution process was more than enough to sustain me. I was so ready to do good.
But reality spoke differently. The challenge motivated me, but willpower alone was not enough to perform well in real-life practice implementation. Across the two cities, facing a lot of other distributors coming from different backgrounds, I found myself getting frustrated. Just raw knowledge alone didn’ t help to get across my message. I had to be able to adapt to them. I had to be able to gain their trust and make them want to listen to me.
Before the job, I had one week of training to distribute well and to differentiate between two kinds of distributors. On the field, I had another training on a whole different grounds. I trained myself to be a better person, to be more flexible, and to know each characteristic of other people. I felt that this truly was a project that could grow myself, not as only interpreter, but as a person. Meeting all kinds of people and also trying to get to the middle ground with them, was actually the real job here.•••
18 # the colors of pratesis / I / JULY 2016