Recently, Teddy and I started an internal training preparation for MCTs (Microsoft Certified Trainers) at Abilitics. So far, the guys are doing great! Here is a quick list of some of the tips:

1. Feel Positive
You can’t fake it. You can’t pretend to be positive. It is much easier to actually feel positive and to actually like your audience. Then you will react positively at everything that happens in the course. The more your react positively, the more the students react positively and the better the course goes.

2. Deal with Anxiety & Nervousness!
Remember that the training is not about you. It is not about you showing how much you know, it not about your performance or your presentation skills.
It is about the audience. It is about how you can help them. What they will have learned at the end of the course. Keep in your mind that they deserve best training possible.
On another note – every trainer feels anxiety, even the most experienced ones. But only masters enjoy it and use it as their advantage (as transforming it in enthusiasm)!

3. Credibility
Know your stuff. If you are good, it will show out. If you are not, it will show.
Do use examples from projects that you have completed. Do give them real-life experience. That is how you will prove your credibility.
Don’t cite your certificates, experience, and your company profile, how great you are and how you know everything.

4. Have enthusiasm
Be enthusiastic about the technology or the subject matter that you are teaching. After all, if you, the expert, don’t seem to like the technology, why they should care about learning it? They shall feel that there is something wonderful that you going to teach them.

5. Make them your friends
Just act friendly. Smile! Laugh! Relax the atmosphere. Don't serve as authority. And don’t take the course too seriously.

Stay tuned for more tips soon.

Sincerely,
Rossen