I am hosting a workshop and...
My nerves are on the next level.
So I am going to take a workshop for the first time since I started my professional career, and yeah, I won't lie—I'll be absolutely honest that I am definitely nervous about it. However my relationship with education as a teacher or as an instructor is not new.
What I have learned throughout the last few years is that no matter who you are as a professional, if you can look for ways to give back to the community in the form of teaching your skill sets to someone who's just starting out or who is looking for acquiring those skills, it helps you in a lot of enormous ways.
Things that it has done for my own self are:
It definitely challenges me to stay on course with what's new and how things should actually be done.
If I was serious as a professional to deliver on a particular skill set, my seriousness goes 2x or 3x if I am planning to teach those things to the next line of students.
It somehow keeps me humble and grounded because I know that I cannot be complacent about learning a particular topic and executing it.
Teaching gives me an additional responsibility to deliver the right set of information to someone who is coming with a complete blank slate. It somehow becomes my responsibility to teach them in a way that can be helpful for them.
I believe responsibility makes humans humble, or at least in my case, it definitely does that. With humility comes the fact that it helps me stay grounded to the cause or to the values that I hold dear.
One of the last factors which I believe is good about teaching, especially if you're an entrepreneur or if you are building teams, is that it helps you find your drive or it helps you find your team members with whom you want to work with.
This is definitely the case with big companies or big multinational companies as well. No matter whether you graduate from prestigious colleges like IITs, or you are coming from small engineering colleges, these companies keep their dedicated training sessions to mold you in a way or in a style of working that is compatible for them.
So similarly if you teach certain students, you will find your next line of team members with whom you want to work, and that happens automatically, without putting a great amount of effort into acquiring the right kind of talent.
So I think this is something I can vouch for, but the best way of acquiring the right talent on the team has always been via some mode of teaching. Whether I have taught in full-time boot camps, collaborated with cohort-based courses like Skillvalley, or given internship opportunities within the ecosystem of Team Codesign, where interns have learned while working with us and adapted to our working style before becoming full-time team members.
Teaching allows you to connect emotionally with a student beyond just imparting a particular skill. It has enabled me to find the right set of team members as well.
With that, I am really looking forward to this workshop that's happening on the 24th of February, 2024 here in Nagpur. Looking forward to connecting with a lot of emerging students to teach them the principles of product design and how to boil down to a minimum viable product.
I will share experiences of what I have learned so far in building Speech to Note
I'm excited for that and nervous at the same time. Let's see how it goes.
Thank you for reading this. Thank you for coming along on this journey, and looking forward to connecting with you all in the next one.