Beware! Here comes a rant… Last week I attended a seminar and got introduced to a Team Manager from a big bank. When he asked me about my profession, I told him about my work as a Communication Trainer. He scoffed and said he was a Communication Trainer too. He recently started running workshops with his team members to improve soft skills. This will be interesting, I thought. So I asked him what his background was with Communication Training and Workshop Design. "None" he replied. "None?..." I replied in shock and horror. "No." he said "Anyone can be a Communication Trainer, right?" Needless to say I died a little bit inside... It seems like everyone is a trainer these days. Except that, they're not. What it means to be a Communication Trainer I am not a Communication Trainer just because I say I am. And just because you ran a few communication workshops doesn’t mean you are trainer. It just