Between Dept 17 TRs Courses for brand new people, which are fairly permissive, and Professional Auditor TRs which result in a smooth, flawless comm cycle required by a professional auditor, we have Co-Audit TRs.
These are the TRs given to those who are not yet on the professional training route but who are training to give and receive auditing on a co-audit basis on rundowns and other co-audits designed for the non-professional.
They are the same drills, TRs 0-4, that are done on the Professional TRs Course. They would be preceded by some study of the ARC Triangle and the Comm Formula. And Co-Audit TRs would also have to include Upper Indoc TRs. But on Co-Audit TRs, you are not trying to make a pro auditor.
You give the co-auditor a chance to get his feet wet, to get a taste of what’s expected of him on TR drills and to get some experience with them. You coach and supervise him to some good wins, to where he gets the hang of it, and you leave it at that.
The way to accomplish this is to start him on an easy gradient and have him cycle through the TRs, getting a bit stiffer each time he cycles through.
He would cycle through TRs 0-4 first, until he had achieved some confidence with those TRs.
He would then go onto Upper Indoc TRs 6-9, cycling through those TRs 6-9, getting a bit stiffer each time through, until he had achieved some confidence with TRs 6-9.
If the student is then having trouble and really flubbing on a certain TR, he might want to spend a bit more time on that one. But do not let him get stuck on trying to master one TR. The fault will be in an earlier TR or in the theory study of ARC and communication where something was not grasped or learned fully enough. So after he’s had a go at the TR he finds difficult and is still not making it, put him back to the beginning to restudy the basics on ARC and communication and then put him through TRs 0-4 and 6-9 again. He’ll come through it, and it needn’t be a long drawn-out business. In fact, it should not be.
You want him up to being able to apply his TRs passably in a co-audit session with a terminal of comparable case level and training to his own. That doesn’t mean your coaching or supervision is any less spot on. It doesn’t mean the co-auditor doesn’t give it the best he’s got, or that he’s permitted to be sloppy or chop up pcs. It does mean that you don’t demand of a person on a non-professional co-audit the same polish, the same expertise you’re going to demand of a student on an auditor training course who will need to perfect his comm cycle to the point where he can handle any case, any pc, any situation confidently and with ease.
Don’t confuse these two levels of TRs. Don’t let your professional auditors-in-training get by with anything less than perfect TRs.
But with the person who’s there to bootstrap his way through giving and getting some auditing any way he can, realize you’re not out to make a professional auditor of him — yet.
Get him to the point where he can handle a session passably. When he’s had some wins at that, when he’s discovered just what can be accomplished in auditing sessions, he’ll probably be reaching for professional auditor training. And that’s when you give him professional auditor TRs, done the hard way.
Keep Co-Audit TRs in their own sphere.