Training and Seminars help leaders and professionals gain relevant knowledge, acquire new skills, and discover innovative ideas, concepts, and strategies. Sending leaders to appropriate training enables them to perform at their best.

Since 2006, I have been conducting training and seminars in leadership, communication, change management, presentation skills, motivating employees, productivity, training the trainer, and other soft skills programs like stress management, time management, and personal effectiveness.

In 2024, I will offer more leadership training programs that will help leaders fix problems and create opportunities.

I will be hosting public seminars and workshops to help leaders develop vital skills and deliver big.

I will also make the two modules on supervisory training available for public seminars.

What are training and seminars?

The definitions of training and seminars are often confused. There are those who think that all training programs are seminars. Probably because all the training programs they had were delivered via seminars. Allow me to talk a bit about each term.

Training is an intervention that organizations offer to their members to improve performance. Typically, a trainer or subject-matter expert conducts training. To improve performance, we need to increase our motivation and multiply our ability to do things. 

There are many kinds of training. Classroom training is conducted in a classroom. I know this is obvious, but I need to mention it. Hands-on and usually done as fieldwork. When done in a classroom, this is called a workshop. In on-the-job training, employees observe the processes and procedures that their employer uses to create an efficient and effective workplace.

This Wikipedia entry explains the advantages of on-the-job training.

Other forms of training are online courses, virtual workshops, and webinars. Learn more about my webinars.

The most popular type of training is called a seminar. But it does not mean that it is the most effective.

A seminar is a form of in-person knowledge-oriented instruction offered by academic institutions, corporate academies, and training providers. In the Philippines, a seminar may be conducted for a small group of five or a large group of 2000 persons. A seminar may be about a single subject or a group of job-related subjects.

Of course, a seminar with 2000 attendees is also marketed as a conference. But if you only need to sit down and take notes while listening to the speaker (or lecturer), you are essentially attending a traditional seminar.

Traditional seminars have lecturers as trainers. Recently, training providers market seminars as interactive and skill-based.

In the Philippines, a growing number of corporate managers criticized public seminars for being boring, irrelevant, and tedious.

Some view these seminars as ways to earn printed certificates required by some organizations.

Presenters, lecturers, resource speakers, subject–matter experts, and speakers typically provide information in seminars. Some seminars have process facilitators who help participants connect concepts, ideas, and practices.

Better Seminars for Effective Learning

When was the last time you attended seminars in the Philippines? What do you love most about seminars and what are the new experiences you want to have? Would you prefer half-day to multi-day seminars?

In the post-pandemic Philippines, we will be holding live seminars once again. But it won’t be like the seminars of old, of course. If there is anything the pandemic has thought us, it is that we can acquire new knowledge and ideas via online courses and webinars.

In the new normal, we can shorten our live in-person sessions by providing our seminar participants recorded webinars, online courses, or short videos that will explain foundational concepts and ideas.

This means we can do away with theory-oriented, lecture-ready seminars and pay more attention to skill-building, in-depth discussions, and practical steps.

We no longer have to endure a speaker who tries to “cover” 120-slide topics.

We no longer have to spend long hours trying to make sense of concepts.

We no longer have to frequent the coffee corner to stay awake.

We will no longer have to tap each other shoulders or massage each other’s back.

We will no longer have to say “hello” every time the trainer says “hi”. Get that picture.

What will happen in the new seminars is that we will be working on cases. Because we already have a common understanding and language, we have more opportunities to use our newly acquired knowledge in solving problems.

I can imagine bringing experts to seminars who can help provide answers to your challenges in leadership, motivation, teamwork, career, and professional development.

In the new normal seminars, I will invite HR experts who will provide you with straightforward answers to your questions.

Seminars in the Philippines

I can see that we will have more sessions in 2024.

I have no prospective dates for public seminars. You can register here to get updates.

We will soon see each other.

In the meantime, I will welcome opportunities to turn these seminar topics into shorter webinars. But if you are interested, contact me so we can hold these webinars for your organization in 2023.