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Applying Instructor Capability in This Professional Context

But for an experienced professional who can teach, consult, facilitate, educate customers, support implementations, develop employees, and deliver independent professional services, one salary number may be the wrong way to measure the opportunity.

But for an experienced professional who can teach, consult, facilitate, educate customers, support implementations, develop employees, and deliver independent professional services, one salary number may be the wrong way to measure the opportunity.

The Bigger Question Is: How Many Ways Can Your Expertise Create Value?

One Professional Capability Can Support Multiple Income Channels.

Develop cross-platform professional instructor capability around the expertise you already possess.

Add evaluated evidence of applied instructional performance to your FCI professional instructor foundation.

For years, technology professionals searching for Microsoft Certified Trainer opportunities naturally asked what an MCT could earn.

That made sense when the professional opportunity was viewed primarily through one vendor credential and one training market.

Since 1999, FDTEC has helped technical professionals develop the instructional capabilities required to turn subject-matter expertise into professional instruction.

The Microsoft Opportunity Was Real. The Professional Instructor Opportunity Is Much Larger.

Today's professional instructor can potentially create value across technologies, industries, employers, clients, learning environments, and professional service models.

Instead of asking only what one employer pays someone with one title, consider the professional leverage created when expertise can be used in multiple ways.

Professional instructors operate under very different economic models.

A salaried professional instructor may work for a technology company, corporation, training provider, college, government organization, healthcare organization, or consulting firm.

A professional may be engaged for individual courses, programs, projects, workshops, implementations, or periods of specialized demand.

An independent professional may work with multiple organizations rather than relying on a single employer.

Consultants may combine advisory services with workshops, education, facilitation, implementation, and knowledge transfer.

Professionals may help customers understand, adopt, apply, and gain greater value from products and services.

One professional may combine employment, instruction, consulting, facilitation, coaching, workshops, and other services over the course of a career.