Non - Attendance of Planned Training Courses, Workshops and Coaching

In life, going for training or coaching can be one of the most liberating feelings you can enjoy. The challenge of testing your mental suitability for a particular role can be a very invigorating, enjoyable role; one that you should have no problems relishing and taking on as time goes on. Sometimes, though, we cannot attend training courses as planned.

Non-attendance of a training course, workshop or coaching could occur for all manner of reasons, including:

• Being too ill to come into training or being sick with a contagious condition that could spread.
• Personal issues, from family bereavement to mental health issues.
• Physical conditioning; being unable to make it in due to injury.
• Special circumstances such as extreme weather blocking roads, transport being cancelled etc.

Of course, you can have any number of reasons for not being able to attend your planned training. The majority of the time, such suggestions and reasons are very valid. You cannot always expect to be 100% free; when life throws a problem our way, we need to deal with it. If this means having to miss out on a day of training, then this is sometimes a frustration we must accept.

Planning for Non-Attendance of a Training Course or Coaching

However, just because you cannot be there does not mean that you just act as if you are not training anyway!

You should always look to tell someone that you are not able to attend your training course. If you are the training provider, it can be very frustrating if students do not provide you with an update on their ability to attend. This is why using the right tools is very important. As a trainee, you need to be able to use tools to help alert your trainer to the issue; a phone call, SMS text message, e-mail is usually sufficient but find out what protocol is accepted first and foremost.

As a training provider, you should look to use software to help try and improve attendance. For example, many companies use Easybook Training; a training assistant that can help to skyrocket attendance and keep people enthusiastic about their future.

With Easybook Training, you can have a message sent out seven days before the date of the training course you are providing. This leaves a little reminder in the mind of the student that they have training course to attend. This can stop people forgetting that they enrolled, or make sure they can give you ample notice for failure to attend the training.

The service also sends an SMS text message reminder out 24-hours before the training course is due to begin or resume. This service is very powerful and can go some way to helping improve the quality and consistency of your course attendance.

Done right, this can have a considerable impact on the way that you work. Just by opening up a two way communication channel. You can find that planning for non-attendance is much easier with Easybook Training. It gives people the chance to let you know they cannot attend their planned training course, workshop or coaching and ensures that training providers can help to improve attendance as much as can be reasonably expected outside of extreme conditions.