At the end of the day, it’s the individual’s intention and integrity as to how far you want to go in terms of helping others to achieve their goals ilife in the areas of your work.

You can be all three at the same time, as long as you acquire the right skills and knowledge to do your job well.

Of course, in the end he got the number and one sheep.

The sheperd stepped forward to ask the man a question:

‘If I can tell you correctly your profession, can you return the sheep to me’. The man agreed.

‘You are a consultant’, the sheperd said.

‘How do you know?’ the man asked in surprise.

‘You came without being invited and asked to be paid on telling me something i already knew.’

Of course, this is only an joke.

However a truely great trainer re-engineers the influencees’ pattern of thinking and ways of behaving, helps to transform something that is mediocre into something that is excellent.

From a passer-by, neither a consultant nor a trainer

I think consultancy and training have both similarities and differences – having attended CPT myself and held my own workshops, I learnt that training goes beyond that presenter. For every one hour of training, there would be probably 10 hours of preparation and communications to the logistic team, or your team of facilitators.

Consultancy, on the other hand, is normally more one-to-one or one-to-small-group, and I guess there is less emphasis on the presentation skills, but more of coaching. While the consultant does not have to deal with the fears of public speaking, I think a consultant needs to go “deeper” than training.

I feel training and consultancy each require different skill sets, so I don’t feel that consultancy is “lowest level of training”. I guess training is perceived to be more difficult, therefore “higher level”, because there is a need to first overcome the fear of public speaking (I read before that people fear public speaking more than they fear death!)