BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – USING Multiple Modular Training Techniques, the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) held a Trainer of Trainers Workshop in Money Management on Tuesday, March 29.
The workshop was held to create maximum learning effectiveness involving persons in managerial positions at financial institutions and was attended by 40 representatives from banks, credit unions and insurance companies in St. Kitts and Nevis.
The workshop was held from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Maltin Moving Conference Centre and was facilitated by Sybil Welsh, an Adviser at ECCB, while persons from the Corporate Relations Department including Senior Corporate Relations Officer, Youlouca Armony-Browne and Corporate Relations Officer LaFleur Dublin assisted in organising the event.
It was aimed at providing authoritative knowledge, practical skills and a greater understanding of how to teach people about money management issues. It had focused on practical, proven, leading-edge techniques and strategies that both new and experienced trainers can use immediately with success.
The participants were also exposed to effective training tools and techniques in money management and gained insight on how to create and deliver exciting compelling presentations on the subject.
Dublin, who also served at coordinator of the event, said it was the second workshop that ECCB had hosted on Money Management.
She said they are hoping that when the trainers go out into the community they would be able to impart the knowledge to other persons in a fun way.
“Instead of speaking, have them more in an interactive session so that when the persons eventually finish with that session, some stuff would resonate with them,” she said.
Different Learning Styles and how to Accommodate Them, Unlocking the Television in Trainees’ Minds-Awakening the Mind’s Eyes, The Nuts and Bolts of Investing and Energising Training were the topics discussed at the workshop to involve the mind, senses and body system.
In terms of the second topic, Dublin said it was more about unlocking the television in an individual’s mind.
“We give them pictograms of different topics and they are going to combine those pictures and come up with a story of their own, based on the pictures. It’s about being creative when they put the information out there and leaving them with a message,” she said.
In a brief interview with Welsh after the workshop ended, she told this media house that ECCB is also about educating the public on how to use financial tools to their best advantage.
“What we recognise is that financial institutions are not just products and services but very important that we be educators. The session was to ensure that all financial providers that we look at use new tools and new ways of imparting that information, because there are so many things around.
“Some people might think that financial issues are boring and dry. But the whole idea is about our lives, and everything revolves around money…whether we can’t get enough, can’t manage enough or have new ways of improving the management of it,” she said.
The ECCB Adviser said that one of the ideas was to also brainstorm and come up with new creative ideas, and not just impart information but engage people in a manner that they would stop, listen and digest it.
“In understanding it, they would go forward and change their lives for the better…getting everyone together. We have a role to play in educating the public and it’s not just about what we do but how we do and the impact we have while putting out education seminars…workshop presentations that would empower persons and make them understand their money management skills,” she explained.
Welsh strongly felt that they had accomplished what they set out to do, noting that they had maximum participation from the attendees and that the enjoyment level was high.
SKNVibes spoke to one of the participants after the workshop who suggested that there should be more workshops of its kind.
“It was very informative and fun. I learnt a lot and will be putting them to use when I get back to my institution. I think we need to have more workshops of this sort in the near future,” said Vincia Herbert of the Bank of Nevis.
