08/10/2025
You Still Need to Practice (Especially After Training)
You’ve done the course.
You watched the demo.
You “know” what to do.
So why do you still mess it up under pressure?
Because knowing isn’t a skill — repetition is.
One of my favourite phrases when training or coaching is: “Great — do it again.”
There’s no mystery to developing skill — it’s about repetition and volume. Skill isn’t built by watching or understanding something once; it’s forged through doing it, over and over, until it becomes second nature.
Yes, you must be practising the right thing — but even perfect technique doesn’t matter without enough reps. Most training programs fail here: they demonstrate a skill once, then move on to the next objective. That’s not training — that’s entertainment.
If you want to understand, if you're going to perform, if you want to own a skill — just do more.
Take something simple, like your SCBA pre-use checks. If you ran through them twice a day, every day, for 3 months, do you think you’d still hesitate? Of course not — you’d be smooth, fast, and confident.
Volume builds mastery. There’s no shortcut. So the next time you practice and hear “Great — do it again,” know that’s precisely how your skill is built. You are probably working with an instructor who actually understands how to develop competence.
We get it. We built a training centre so our teams can constantly practice. We deliver courses with competence building right at the centre of the design. When you work with us, we build a journey and support you beyond the end of our contact time – whether that's during a site standby operation or a training course.
Great, go do more!
