The online training gave unique challenges. Having communication with long distance participants who have different time zones and cultural backgrounds, it is required that they must tell the same thing repeatedly, because the network is faltered, on and off.  Telling repeatedly is crucial to make sure whether the intended message is clear and understandable. Moreover how to bring together ideas to be produced in one video, really drained the creative ideas they have. In average, the participants were still beginner and had no experience in producing videos.

Wilton Paskalis. The main thing in Communication Skills is public speaking and this is a benchmark that must be achieved by someone in this training. I found unique and various speaking character of the participants that showed the uniqueness that illustrated their origin from various regions in Indonesia, so the self-adaptation must be done by the facilitator as well as the participants. Then they should complement each other and built connectedness so that the training ran well. I felt happy when I found good communication tips and even the values of responsibility, cooperation, discipline, professional and patience. I know these all were not a coincidence but part of the life cycle.

Thomas Yulianto. I felt grateful for being able as a blessing to the participants of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta on Communication Skills training, so that those who were formerly afraid of speaking up can ‘defeat’ their fears, even have confidence to communicate. Each participant had personal experience and I learned good things from their experiences with various backgrounds from Aceh to Kupang. It must be admitted that there were participants who were less enthusiastic about following the training stages for various reasons and they were difficult to contact because of unstable communication networks, campus activities and others. I learned a lot of things, including patience to accompany them with their characters, and still productive in the middle of the Covid-19 Pandemic. In essence, wherever to learn, whenever to learn and learn to everyone, then we will succeed and become a person who has positive impact.

Erik Poae. The first thing I thought about when accompanying Communication Skills training participants was the challenge to be more confident than the participants. Indeed, I have participated in the same topic training a few years ago but I was as a participant and it was not online training. Equipped with the former experiences I am more determined to be the trainer. Each stage took 6-8 days, interacting with students from various regions in Indonesia with a variety of characters. This process also shaped me to be a good trainer on how to adapt to all the conditions that exist. Sometimes the feeling of insecurity arose because I thought that they are more intelligent than I am. During the process, I felt happy because it was proven that the materials I learned was new to them. This made me understand even more that we should not be afraid to try new things, especially to hone our soft-skills and hard-skills.

These experiences are shared learning as trainer or participant. With the strong motivation to do the best at every opportunity, it certainly produces a positive influence to improve the quality of human resources. (TRU).