Hill , I've recently been asked by my Employer to deliver training to all staff where i work , I hold Nebosh gen and have been a H&S advisor for the past 12 mts , is there anything in Nebosh that allows me to deliver the training package we have or do I need a further qualification ? Thanks in advance.

That's great info dgover, the course content is directly connected to my job and so shouldn't be a problem , I will be asking for the PTLLS course tho , sounds Like something that will benefit in the future. Thank you for the advice.

just because you have a specialist academic qualification it does not automatically make you a trainer -----------this has been a problem of the profession for many years ----------- I advise that some sort of formal 'how to teach' qualification is gained e.g. knowing the difference between cognitive and affective learning etc. is in my view required

To throw a further pebble into the mix I actually think that either you are good at teaching or not. Having a PTLLS certificate doesn't make you a good teacher / trainer / instructor. Just because you don't have a PTLLS certificate doesn't make you a bad teacher / trainer / instructor. Personally I have the PTTL's certificate but didn't feel I benefited from the course content at all. Just a bit of paper to me.

That'll be "Ways to make it exciting" not Says !!!

I'm with Clarrel on that point. You either have the personality and passion to teach or not.

Further to Clairel’s excellent comment: As someone who has been teaching on their specialist topic for many years (and on other topics before that), I was once told by a superb teacher that: “You must consider yourself as being like an actor. That actor needs to take the audience and make them believe that he is Hamlet and that they are really in that castle in Denmark. You need to take the participants and make them see and feel what you see and feel. The key to this is passion. If you are not passionate about what you are teaching then you will not get them passionate about it either.” Some of the best advice I ever have had. Of course you need the knowledge of the subject. You also need to consider the participants and what they need, then pitch the presentation at the level where it makes sense to them. That way you can engage them and get the result you need. Chris

As somebody who develops and delivers in-house training and is PTLLS trained, I wouldn't agree with some of the other comments of PTLLS being a waste of time. Of course it is not the "be all and end all" but it is, in my opinion, an essential bit of training to have if you want to be a good trainer. Whilst it of course won't teach you passion and confidence (that's something you've got to work on yourself), what the course will teach you is similarly important things such as how to plan & structure lessons, how to identify different learning requirements, how to employ different teaching methods, how to approach different types of people and situations, even how to setup and layout your classroom depending on the course type.... Despite what many people seem to think (trainers and otherwise), training is not just about standing at the front of a room confidently reading out Powerpoint slides. Understanding how to put together properly planned, interesting, varied and involving lessons are, in my eyes, equally as important and without the knowledge PTLLS gives you, many will struggle to achieve this. I struggle to see how somebody serious about delivering training could attend the PTLLS course and not get anything out of it. Either they are already an accomplished trainer who already knows all the tricks of the trade or they failed to grasp the purpose of the course.

When I did PTTLLS, I went in wanting to learn about course and session structure, how to address my training to people at different levels and how to keep peoples attention. What I got was week after week after week on how to send students to student services so that the college could offer support and the college could rake in government funding. I do not consider this to have been particularly useful since I was driving about 20 miles from work to the college in question. There was about an hour on a series of hierarchical pyramid diagrams which covered pitching courses to differing levels. I also discovered that when asked "what is differentiation?" you will recieve ridicule for answering "It's the rate of change of a curve - although I don't really see any context for that in this lesson." This brings us all nicely round to the original post in as much as any training course can be run well or badly and a lot of training is run with an agenda behind it. The traiing I did was not a good fit for me because it was targeted at people who were expected to go on to teach at the college running the course and the training suited the colleges agenda. For someone who did not work there it was a waste of time.