The KK Update

Sorry sgt2 kalau ada yang jenguk2 blog yg tak berupdate ni.

I got back from KK late Thursday (23 October). Penat, sakit badan, sakit kaki semua ada. Friday sempat kemas-kemas barang sikit and pergi hantar invoice and barang2 training to the organiser. Sabtu terus sakit. Then Monday, i took a flight balik kampung sebab my mom & sis risau i sakit sorang2 kat rumah. Itu pasal la lambat nak update. Monday baru balik sini.

Ni nak cerita pasal what happened during the KK program.

THANKS to semua yg tinggal komen and best wishes. Semangat dari kawan2 helped a lot.

Alhamdullilah, the training went on better than i expected. Kan i was expecting the worst sebelum pergi. Challenging jugak nak handle group ni, tapi at least i discover my strenght & weaknesses....mcm self discovery la sikit2, a test for me as a trainer yang agak baru ni.

Here are some notes and pics on what happened in KK. Gambar I sendiri takde sangat sebab i yg ambik gambar.

Cik Penceramah

Since i tak pernah buat program gomen, banyak pengalaman baru i dapat. All the formalities i had to get used to. For example, all the protokol, Taklimat lah, Ucapan Pembukaan lah, all the salutations. Despite insisting that they just call me by my first name, through out the programme i was called "Cik Penceramah"...hehe, how weird is that.

Muda....(muda ke??)

The participants majority are almost "warga-warga emas" from the state and disctrict offices. Nak buat joke-joke bodoh pun macam tak kena je. Most of them have adult children and ada cucu dah. Dari mula lagi dah nampak one thing that caught their attention is "how young" the penceramah is. Takde la muda mana pun sebenarnya, nampak je muda. So i had to remain serious and professional most of the time to be convincing and to be taken seriously. Cuma masa last day, and night workshops i let loose sikit. (susah tau awet muda ni u'olls;-D)

Wrong Expectations

Haritu masa jumpa orang gomen kat Putrajaya tu....siap warning i group ni "high level". Setakat nak mention strategy itu ini tak payah la...semua dah tau.

Lagi satu pasal bahasa. I tanya juga materials in English ok ke. No problem also...."peserta kursus" as they call them level tinggi tinggi.

I pun prepare la apa yang patut, sesuai dengan 'pangkat' dan 'kebijaksanaan'.....hmmm. Nan Ado! Dont get me wrong, i am not putting down atau memandang rendah the group. They are professionals in their field and i respect them for that.

Cuma the people in charge dah kasi wrong impression. I prepared myself accordingly. First day one of the participants dah tanya kenapa materials semua in English. So i had to deliver the training dalam BM unprepared. Sambil bercakap otak kena terus translate....bukan la i tak pandai cakap melayu, tapi bahasa untuk formal ni lain...lepas tu some strategic/ management terminologies tu bukan instantly i dapat translate.

And for most of them, ini pendedahan pertama on management concepts. Dah kata tahu semua, i dah prepare macam advance sikit....kena la adjust apa yg patut time tu jugak. Kalau "Change Management" pun ada yg ingat tukar pengurusan, as in the mgt team change.....lu pikirla sendiri!

In the End

Overall, i would say the program was successful. Takde la The Best, tapi they took away some new knowledge that they can use back at work. I nampak they all excited bila buat all the activities and group work. Siap make copies of the flipcharts and presentations so that boleh buat contoh untuk pakai nanti. Anyway, yang penting at the end of the day, the learned something. Masa group work and their final projects, i can see them applying what i shared. They were really committed. Cuma slow sikit, kena work with them in small groups.

Paling suspense masa nak tengok feedback forms. Tak tau la kalau they are generous with their compliments tapi majority kasi very good ratings. What more can i ask kan, sebab i tak expect much. Ada yang jumpa personally kasi compliment. Ada juga yg kasi feedback for improvement.

Latest, the people at Putrajaya ada cakap nak kasi i buat another session of the same program. Puas hati la agaknya. Alhamdulillah, tapi tak nak fikir lagilah.....letih haritu pun tak habis lagi. hehe.

Now, tunggu payment la apa lagi.....

Special Credit:

To Jill yg make time on that Saturday to help me design all the group work & activities. It made all the difference.

To Miss QQ yang buatkan slides for one module within a crazy deadline.