How you feeling?

Independent driving instructors can often sense isolation, especially when subjected to a particular trigger that stirs emotions of fear, confusion or anxiety.  These triggers arise for many different reasons, and the intensity of loneliness varies accordingly.

In the BIG TOM Driving School Franchise, driving instructors are supported to overcome these trigger events.  Very often, it is possible to mitigate the trigger by merely paying attention to the advice given in the franchise of best practice.  BIG TOM operates within a framework of solicitude benefitting pupils and driving instructor franchisees.

Organisations that provide a service relating to personal enrichment, e.g. training or education are sometimes subjected to obloquy directly or indirectly. Frequently, it arrives with no previous warning.   A lone driving instructor on the receiving end of a direct verbal attack can have deeply mental consequences to well-being.  How some people behave with antipathy towards others, cannot always be rationalised and attempting to understand the motivation can in itself be deeply traumatic.

Self-doubt might creep into your conscious thoughts, leaving you feeling dazed, momentarily distracted, lost in the moment.  Even your unconscious mind can get affected, where your sleep is disturbed.  The working day has occasional capricious moments which a driving instructor may or possibly may not recognise the root cause.   

It takes a brave soul to ask for help.

In a 1:1 working environment, the mental health of pupil and driving instructor are of equal importance for a productive relationship.  The induction training that BIG TOM provides for new franchisees centres around a framework of planning, monitoring and evaluation.  

For a free 1/2 hour 1:1 no-obligation video chat with owner Tom Ingram, email "Support" to recruit@BIGTOM.org.uk   

You will be glad you did.