Teaching is not easy, I see it everyday, don't be lied to. We often hear about skills transfer and think just about anyone can do it the way they put it to us, but it's not.
I get to be in front of people and tell them this and that at times. Same as those who are in sales and marketing, they get to do that almost all the time. The hardest thing to do is get to make an adult person to understand something. It is then that you'll see how testing it gets hearing what you thought was easy to grasp taking a council the whole day to understand.
As a person who's impatient I thank God for having helped me be where I am now. Think of me being impatient as I am failing to understand what's being told to me, I'll be impatient with myself and to the deliverer of the information. The bottom line is it's hard to transfer skill. In my teachings as a capacitation facilitator, I encountered a lot and after coming into the side of business got it much better. Through that I got to comprehend and confidently declare that businesspersons aren't ordinary people; their thought processing, analytical views, challenge interpretation, and solution provisions and turnarounds, made me stick to this world for I learn everywhere and everyday. With that said, the problem lies with the labourers.
Many of those who are preaching the gospel of skills transfer don't have a clue themselves on where to start off. This bringing back the words of Moeletsi Mbeki when he said: "How do you expect a minister of finance to do well while he himself had never run a business, let alone a mere tuck shop". The labour market in our region is still filled with low educated people. If you compare us to other regions can have a clear picture of what I mean. I truly envy the legislators for they have it easy. The tough part is getting information into the heads that told themselves they don't want to change, while you on the other hand are forced by the very laws to get a resistor to soften up and learn from you.
What I got from my observation is that our leaders just don't care. If they did, they'd use their very influence they use during elections and tell their people to cooperate as it's for their own good. Being a business person you just don't get a rest. Many of the people who are hard nuts are the ones in unions, and should they have the message from their leaders to learn at work, and give them reasons to, they won't behave as they do.
In conclusion: 'to shift the mindset, you need to condition the mentality first' [1]. Much as the frontline managers may do and say whatever but sans the buy-in from politicians, no message will be gotten through. If they want to really help grow their members mentally, the best thing to do is drive them towards learning so they be empowered instead of planting divisive sentiments in them.
With education they will be promoted, earn better and have better status in society. I sometimes believe what I heard someone say that politicians don't want members to wisen up because they won't see their importance, but I differ with that sentiment as the ruling party govern even those more qualified to them academically, as such a case not going to be different with unionists. 'True empowerment starts with embetterment of the sole's mind' [2]...
[1, 2] by KgeleLeso.
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