Have you ever trained a new person at your place of work? I'm currently training a girl at my workplace and she's really struggling (it breaks my heart!) I was just wondering what teaching methods yall would use. Also, post some funny stories

There's only one rule: be patient.

To you, your job is second nature. You've spent countless hours accumulating all your knowledge on how to do the job. For her, it's completely foreign. So if you have to work on a computer screen or a touch screen, she literally has no idea where each button is or what each button does. If you work packing inventory, she has no idea where anything goes. She's struggling cause she doesn't know anything.

Eventually it'll be second nature to her too. Until then, just remember what your first 2 weeks were like, and how daunting it was having no idea what you were doing. And how easy it was to forget something you'd only just been taught. Everyone sucks in the beginning.

Another piece of advice would be don't try and teach her everything at once. Get her to do a few things, and just repeat it until she knows how to do it. If you try teaching her everything at once, it'll be an information overload and it'll go in one ear and out the other. It's like when people say "remember this number sequence" and they say 16 numbers, you can remember the first two and the last 2 and that's it.

That's fantastic advise! The girl I'm training is just really struggling because it's not her normal line of work. When dealing with customers over the phone she looks so damn confused and the way she looks at me for advise really makes me sad I havnt trained anyone before and didn't realise how hard it is. She's defiantly coming a long way though I think patients is defiantly crucial which I've been doing great at, I'm just getting worked up by seeing her struggle which I think is affecting me being the best trainer for her. Tomorrow I'm gonna go by your advise though!

I've trained 6 new people at my ex workplace. Apparently my boss liked my performance so she thought I could teach them best. She wasn't completely wrong. I loved training them, plus my co-workers hated the fact that they would have to train newbies.

Just be patient and be really nice to make her feel comfortable. Show them every little thing. For you it may be easy, but remember that she doesn't know these things yet. I always tell them to note down some stuff so that they can remember in the future, so maybe you can do that too. Let them work on their own a bit and assist them. Reassure her that it's okay to mess up at the beginning and that she can count on you. Trust me, many newbies need to hear those words.

I don't really have a funny story. Although there was this one girl who was always distracted and couldn't keep her head on her shoulders. It was a struggle for me too, because I wanted her to learn but she wouldn't. Everybody started being mean to her, my boss wanted her gone, and I did most of her part of the job so that she wouldn't get into trouble. I was babysitting her for like a month before she started to adapt. She quit the job 2 months in and in her goodbye mail she only thanked me for being the best co-worker she ever had

Aww aww!!! These posts

I am a horribly slow learner I'm the person you tell 5 times how to do a task as I shadow you and I mess up the first 5 times on my own.
I just can't help it I can't stick things in my head right away no matter how hard I try! But I don't ever give up! Thank you if you are a patient teacher try not to laugh at us while we make mistakes unless we laugh first, it will sound discouraging otherwise!

Rih's advice was great.

Training involves patience as well as open communication, just like any successful relationship. Shes leaning new career skills and it is going to be a struggle but as long as you can see to it that she develops applicable work skills then she'll be fine.

I was in a similar position as the girl. I started a new job and had to work on my phone prescence, only I was poorly trained because there was zero open communication. Ask her directly how she feels about the role and if she feels comfortable. That support, and knowing you're listening, will help encourage her to learn and do better.

Yes, I was building up a sales team around me but I gave up because all the people my boss sent for me to train were ****ing useless idiots who can't get the most simple thing right.

And all the people I sent him, walked out after 3 days and I never got to see any benefits from their work come my way.

Back in the day if I was asked to train someone it was because usually they were going to replace me with cheaper labor. So I would do everything I could to teach them nothing while making it seem like I was teaching them everything. I would document everything I was supposed to show him but never did show them so my manager would think the guy was an idiot when it came down to his review. 100% of the time these were H1B visa Indian folks, nothing against them but it is against the law to replace me with someone like that just for cheap labor. The law states they have to possess a skill that no one else has. Not that we train them to take our jobs. I eventually confronted the manager about this and he was not happy but it stopped. Then they found a work around, off shoring. One day I came to work and 8 Indian guys were sitting there and my manager said teach them Sql Server, I said no, they should already have that skill or they should not be here.

Still today though there are 10,000's of H1B's here that should be sent home because they are taking American jobs from programmers that do have the skills. The tech companies will paint a different story for you though and claim they need more. The reason being H1B's are essentially indentured servants and are almost never going to complain or ask for a raise while they wait for their green card.

I was the only person at work once and someone came in for work experience. That day was the day I realised that I really have no idea what I'm doing. When I tried teaching her how to do certain jobs and why I just drew a blank .

Does my nut in. But I try my best, stay calm and be patient.

I will be perched on this thread as if I pass my exam...ill start work right away

I wish my future trainors would be like you