Soar to Success December 2020

Confidence, happiness, and engagement all go together, and training can play a significant role in contributing to all of those. Building skills for employees to feel confident in performing their job, regardless of whether it is a specific task for an hourly worker or strategic training for a leader, contributes to their happiness and engagement. Training also ensures consistency acrossanorganizationand increases innovation and creativity. As far back as I can remember, I have been providing training and living for the ‘aha’ look By Janet Kendall White Role of Corporate Training in Building Confidence on someone’s face or watching them develop in an area and seeing their confidence grow. I remember being a junior camp counselor watching people afraid to go in the water who, by the end of camp, were swimming with confidence, enjoying the water with others, or rowing a canoe. Hours or days before they had never experienced nor did they know how to row! Fast forwardmanyyears and I still thriveon that aha moment, typically in the corporate arena. Working with leaders through our facilitation