‘I took my watch off to wade out to check my lobster pots and lost track of time’ – still my favourite reason given for being late to a training session!

The young woman who turned up to an employability skills session holding a box of kittens …

The CEO who was late to his own Teams meeting as he’d had to shoo a cow out of his orchard …

The aviation industry pro whose dummy parachute had popped spectacularly out of her backpack as she walked from the car to demonstrate correct packing technique…

Trainer tales, eh?

Then there was the woman who went into labour in class …

The one who thought she was taking paracetamol but it turned out to be aspirins to which she was violently allergic …

The one who issued a death threat on getting a poor mark …

The bloke who wasn’t the person who’d actually attended the job interview …

Those stories you tell each other.

I think we all have them!

What are yours?

Philippa Hammond
Learning, development and performance consultant| trainer | facilitator