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6 Course Tips to Save You Thousands
Just finished mentoring and volunteering course with MYBE Awards, good guys delivering good training courses.
However it got me thinking......
Thought I would count up all my completed post education training courses, certificates diplomas. None lower than level 2, turns out almost 90 courses from Commercial Diving, Coaching Process, Demolitions, NLP, Emmet to Snowboard Coaching and everything else in between.
Just thought I would share some tips for learning:
1) Learn what you love or learn for a profession, if not you will simply forget as fast as you have learned. I could write 10 books with course content I’ve forgotten over the years, thousands ££££ of forgotten knowledge. Keep revisiting the knowledge and remain current or forget it all.
2) Try and keep it to all one field, something I never done. A friend and mentor once said “glenn you have studied too many elements of health” and he was right. Jack of all trades master if none lol. Try to catch 1 Rabbit you have a chance, try and catch 2, you catch zero Rabbits.
Don’t dilute your skills too much I coached nearly every outdoor skill and this can involve too much skill fade.
(From Phil Richards Coach)
3) I heard years ago “about the expensive notebook” someone who pays for decent expensive courses fills notebooks, but never learns the content. Usually this is because they are magpies and jump to the next course before fully mastering the course they are on. Do the course, review the material and then continually apply the learnings.
4) if you want to be really good at something, do it contunually for a long time, like daily for weeks or months. Not just a week a year, the amount of skiers and boarders who don’t progress as they just do it for a week a year. Personally spent months boarding, biking and kayaking and that’s when the automatic skills start being honed. Unconscious competence. Do your hobby every day for 8 weeks and blow yourself away with improvement.
(From a North Wales Kayak Coaching Book) Loel Collins
5) Teach others what you have learned, it’s a great thing to do and great for you mind and soul. Possibly more importantly, one of the best ways to really learn something is to teach it. Spread your knowledge - it’s the right thing to do, I’ve even taught other coaches all my stuff for free.
6) Take amazing detailed notes, different books for each course, write them in your language. In the past completed courses like kinesiology, movement neurology and NLP, if I hadn’t made notes in my language I could look at the course material and it would make zero sense.
Just some ideas, if you are starting out in health coaching, Personal Trainer or love to learn like myself or new to an industry.
Summary
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Learn what you love
Keep it in one field
Don’t be the course magpie
Do a skill every day for a month or longer
Teach a skill to learn it
Take good notes
Sent from my iPhone