Seeking Advice: How Can I Overcome My Habit of Rushing and Missing Key Points in Training?

I have this problem while I am conducting training, sending messages, and speaking to seniors, especially in meetings.

Most of the time, my mom used to call me "cashew" in childhood because whenever someone asked something, I would try to be the first to respond. I would do it perfectly, but once I was done, I would analyze my answer with myself and find at least small mistakes, especially in training. For example, you will see in my replies on our forum that most of the time, I forget to close the sentence. (Especially in emails, I forget to close the sentence because "I am in a hurry").

Today, I am conducting training for our employees on "HEAT STRESS" and made the same mistake due to my usual "cashew" character. I forgot to add most of the points, and now I am realizing this.

Seniors, please advise me on how to correct this. Your advice will help my career growth.

Appreciated in advance.

Note: Moderators, if this is not the right place to discuss this matter, you can remove it and advise me on the correct place to discuss it on our forum.

Don't worry. The past is gone. What I do in my training sessions is provide hyperlinks to the main slide. If time permits, then I open the hyperlinks; otherwise, I go ahead with the main course.

Thanks & Regards,
Sudhir

Ideally, your post should have appeared in the "Employee Training and Development" section and not in the "Safety & Health of your Employees" section. Your problem is communication. It appears that you have not worked under some managers who were very good at communication. The way you have written your post is also clumsy. Have a look at the second paragraph. There is no link to the previous sentence. Everything is mixed together.

Solution for Improving Communication Skills

So what is the solution? The solution is that you need to take a course on "Business Writing Skills." Take this course from some senior person and not from a junior person. Learn the principles of business writing. Thereafter, whenever you write something, audit your message or post or letter against those standard principles and then only hit the "send" button.

Consequences of Not Improving

What will happen if you don't improve your business writing skills? If you don't improve your business writing skills, then you will have a problem once you reach a senior level. Possibly, you might not reach there also. So take corrective measures now itself.

Additional Suggestions

One more suggestion is to read the newspapers. Don't read cursorily. Read only 1-2 news articles but read them thoroughly. Understand the thought behind the news, how it was structured, what transitory sentences were used, etc. Much depends on your manager as well. If he/she is not good at English or communication itself, then nothing can be done.

All the best!

Regards,
Dinesh V Divekar

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

As others have said, there is no point in worrying about the past. One way to address this is to create a mock presentation, record it, play it back, and review your performance. Realization is the first step in self-correction, which you have now accomplished.

If you compare the previous message with the one I sent in my private message, you will notice that I have improved my English.

Thank you.

Regards

"I am working in a US company with a good team (85% US nationality) and under a well-skilled manager from the UK. He has helped me a lot in improving my communication skills. I am responsible for submitting EHS submittals to the US government and OSHA (quarterly reports), and I have never received any comments on them yet.

As per your guidelines, 'Business Writing Skills' are very essential, especially for corporate people. I will try to purchase a book when I return to India. If possible, could you kindly suggest a senior person I can contact directly?

Thanks for your suggestion and guidelines."

Regards

Thank you for taking your valuable time to reply to my query. I strongly agree with your point: 'Realization is the first step in correcting ourselves.' I will follow the guidelines given by our members on this thread and update you all after a few months. Thanks for your private message.

Regards

I really appreciate your willingness to help out wherever needed and thank you for all your help on our thread. It was really helpful to have your input. I'm happy to have you as a part of our CiteHR team. I never used hyperlinks in my presentations; it's one of the good ideas I will try to add to my upcoming training programs and will let you know. I hope it will give the best results for me.

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