Continuous personal development is key for staying up on an ever changing social media landscape. You cannot take out from what is not there. Your training needs to be more than just social media.
Personal development is key to future social media success. As a social media trainer, consultant or speaker, we need to be continuously expanding our knowledge and experience base. This training needs to come from other areas as well as from social media.
Lately, I have taken two 40 hour plus training programs to enhance my skills. One was a 48 hour communications program and the other was a 40 hour facilitation program. These two courses have helped make me a better communicator and trainer. They were painful to take because they revealed flaws that I needed to correct. Now I am just a bit sharper as an instructor, speaker and consultant. It is amazing what you can learn from others over an extended period of time.
It’s great to take a lot of social media training programs, but you need to round yourself off better by taking programs or courses in other areas. What training are you planning on taking in the new future? You need to make plans to incorporate this into your schedule. After all, you need training as well as your clients. So make sure that you look after “you” . This will build a better you and your clients will appreciate it. Remember, personal development needs to be continuous throughout your lifetime.
