Don’t despise any training

While recently  ‘recruiting’ participants for a free one-day social media and Internet workshop for journalists I facilitated  last week, a senior journalist told me what he wanted was training abroad and not,  to use his words, “small and local training.”

Ironically, the senior journalist, probably beyond checking his email, is not Internet literate and would have benefitted a lot by participating in our “small” training.

Much of what I know today about the new media is from informal and ‘little’, not even small, knowledge-seeking discussions and sessions. I have learnt not to despise the place of little beginning and taken advantage of the ‘small’ opportunities God has given me to learn how to do my job better.

Every local seminar, lecture, workshop and training that will enhance my skill means much to me and I don’t take them for granted. From being faithful with the local training opportunities, God has blessed me with international ones, where I am not just a participant but sometimes the trainer.

The next time you get an invitation to be part of any training that will enrich your media skills on what you don’t know about or what you know about but you have not maximized the opportunities, you should be thankful and keep an open mind about what you can learn.

If you don’t thank God for the little local opportunities where one word or an idea can change your career for good, how do you expect Him to grant your desire for an international training, fellowship, and conference?

The comment by one of the participants at the social media training underscores why every training opportunity should be taken seriously.

“At the end of the training, I had to ask God for forgiveness for my ignorance,” the participant stated.

Only God knows how many journalists need to ask God for forgiveness for what they don’t know but think or pretend to know.

Zechariah 4:10 NIV (New International Version)

“Who despises the day of small things? Men will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. “(These seven are the eyes of the LORD, which range throughout the earth.)”

Lekan Otufodunrin

President.

Telephone: 08023000621. Email: lekanagency@yahoo.com Twitter @lotufodunrin