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Writer's pictureAndrew J Calvert

The best things I learned in training: Progress over perfection

As I've written previously I did something link 48 days of classroom training in a year as part of my product knowledge / industry upskilling . Many of those programs has role plays built into them - opportunities to take all of the process or skills and assemble them into an unscripted activity to test our ability to integrate the behaviours into a coherent approach and test how well you had learned them



And every time I was disappointed when I wasn't perfect. And then one program I had an epiphany, If I knew hot to use the skills perfectly, I wouldn't need to attend the class, in fact I wouldn't be there.


And because I didn't know how to sell/negotiate / ask better questions / resolve conflict etc, I was there to learn. And over the course of the workshop I needed to show progress, not perfection. Could I get a little bit better after each unit, practice or reflection activity? Could I see for myself how I had improved from where I had started?


And that realization was liberating, instead of a crippling concern that I was going to "do it wrong" I gave it my best effort, and learned from the experience, learned from the feedback and learned from watching others do exactly the same things in a different way to me

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