As a skilled person, how would you manage an apprentice that cannot pick up the skill after three years?
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Three years is such a long time to allow such a employee to continue to stay in the organization. If employee can not learn the basic skills in three months, he is unfit for the work. Three months is okay for anybody to learn fundamental skills in the workplace.
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I am not talking about an employee, what I am talking about is an apprentice that wants to learn a skill like photography, tailoring, auto mechanic. He has paid you to teach him the skill. Three years down, he is not grabbed the skill to stay on his or her own.
If after three years the person is still not able to learn anything then is either there is something wrong with my method of teaching or the so called apprentice have other things in mind. I would simply try that same method on another person, if it works then the fault is not from me.
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At that point, would you free the apprentice to go and try his luck elsewhere or you would keep on teaching him with hope that he would grab one day.
I don't think that anyone who is well dedicated into learning a particular work or skill would be struggling to master the skill in 3 years. If it's the reality, then the person is never serious about learning the skill. I would let him or her go and stop wasting my time.
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That could be the best thing to do in the situation. I have actually seen a person that learnt tailoring for 5 years. I think most of them were forced to go learn the skill.
I think that there should be an approach for a slow learner and if your apprentice isn't catching up.it could translate that you are not a good teacher.
It is a normal probationary period in some companies in my country. Although it also depends on company's discretion if they can promote or hire an employee to work with them regularly.
For such an apprentice, it is always better for them to just forget about the trade and look within again to find something that suits them.
No two ways about this, I would refund part of the money for the apprenticeship and tell him or her to try somewhere else.
