training feedback board

I have recently read a numberof posts regading training e.g. what constitutes good training and it occured to me that it would be good to have a section that assessed each course on a number of criteria on this site e.g.

no of attendees 5-12 13-25 25 -50 50 -100 100+
content 1 - 5
delivery 1 -5
practical experience 1 - 5
overall satisfaction 1 - 5
additional comments.

The purpose would be to help people assess which courses have been well run and which should really be avoided by those that have attended. Obviously it would need a bit more thought that what I have listed here.

Hope this is of interest.

Regards,

David

Hi David,

I think that's a great idea and I also think that the infrastructure to properly support what you are talking about here is present in this forum.

Unfortunately, to be frank, we are have a few NLP trainers and their friends who frequent the site, creating dummy accounts and use them either to slag off their perceived competition or for other odd uses. They would, no doubt 'game' such a system.

So we would need to have a way of...

• Positively identifying users as being real people...
• ...and as being who they say that they are
• Insuring that the attended courses they claim to have attended....

...before allowing them to post ratings that would be meaningful.

I do encourage people to post reviews of courses or events, good, bad or indifferent. This has the benefit of being a little more difficult to fake as trainers and fellow attendees will tend to know who attended a training. It's also harder to review in any detail a course one has not actually attended without tripping one's self up. Not impossible, just difficult...

It also has the benefit of revealing a bit about the mindset and expectations of the reviewer which puts their opinions into, I think, useful perspective. Because, different people find different things more or less useful at different times and understanding where someone might be coming from might help one to know if it might be more or less useful for them.

Anyway, that's my thinking, for what it's worth. Any other ideas?

Be Well,

Michael Perez

Hi Michael,

I agree with all the your points and I do have a couple of suggestions that might fit the bill.

1) The board is self regulating with a request to all members to highlight false feedback e.g. name posted that is not theirs or feed back from people on the courses do not recognise names that were on the courses.
2) The other option is that the board only posts those trainers willing to be on the board in the first place. They can register the course and get unique identifiers for each attendee and tell them of the site.

Both options have the potential for fraud if someone is determined enough.

Maybe the answer is to follow your suggestion but have a section of the site completely devoted to training feed back only.

I have to admit a bit of self interest here as I am getting ready to do the master prac and don't know the good from the bad or indifferent! I tend to hedge away from large seminars like Richard's and Pauls and yet small classes do not guarantee quality either (Oh no its Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance all over again.....)

What do you think?

David

There are thousands of people using the site and only a handful of dishonest trainers. As long as lots of real people took part in the project, the potential for fraud is very small.

I'll look into making this feature available soon.

Hi Chris & Michael,

Thanks for the positive feedback and help.

Regards

David