Do I like trainings? Errr ...

2 days ago, my company organized a 3-hour training by some Don Power from Australia, about Executive Power … mostly about how to deal effectively with people and utilizing personality traits to guide the thought process. Unfortunately, this was done on the production floor, which was too public for my taste.

To be honest, I felt the training too restraining & elementary for my taste, it’s a little too touchy feely like stuff in AIESEC and I also did trainings with similar content for others before, so I spent quite a bit of time fidgeting & dozing off due to the boredom. Oh, how I wished I could just do something more worthwhile … like perhaps make some calls or process my e-mails or just do reading. But, PCs are not to be touched & phones unplugged. Sigh.

This was one of the days when I wished I had my own room, able to hide away & do my relevant stuff.

There's going to be a huge training again in a few weeks for two whole days. The last one I attended, I spent most of it sleeping outside on the couch, and I am a bad delegate (even during AIESEC times), where I am argumentative (the sessions were too slow for my speed anyway) ... too bored (fidgeting, doodling & falling asleep when the speaker presents) and in attack mode (any bozo that spouts preachy stuff or ask dumb questions will get a double does of my sarcastic sentiments).

Yes, I organize conferences and conduct trainings. And I expect full participation from my delegates. Yet, I don't when it's my turn to be a participant. The irony & contradiction.