Describes a collection of techniques used to increase use of skills learned in a training program for the staff of a motor freight common carrier company; briefly summarizes nature of the training program, its rationale, target population, content and delivery methods; and summarizes the training program's effects on employee performance. (MBR)

Discusses the systematic approach to training, how this approach increases training impact, and how it evolved and identifies the four components of this approach, describing three components in detail--pretraining briefing sessions, review of individual training objectives, and group followup. (MBR)

Discussion covers instructional design for the military during World War II and how this limited experience provided a basic assumption for the paradigm that describes how professionals in the performance and instruction technology field should approach problems. Conceptual soundness of the assumptions on which the profession is based is…

Describes the use of a self-study videocassette course on planning and presenting video training to teach organizational subject matter experts (SMEs) how to develop training materials on videotape. A preproduction timetable is included which lists events and when they should be scheduled prior to production day. (MBR)

Contains a partial inventory of sales training strategies and video techniques that heighten viewer involvement and promote transfer of learning to performance situations such as selling. These strategies have been used by Monroe Systems for Business, a manufacturer and distributor of business calculating equipment which recently expanded its…

Discusses three task analysis techniques utilized at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station to review training programs: analysis of (1) job positions, (2) procedures, and (3) instructional presentations. All of these include task breakdown, relationship determination, and task restructuring. (MBR)

Summarizes results of a survey of training professionals conducted to determine their perceptions of teachers' competencies and ability to function as trainers in business. Respondents' suggestions to teachers on preparation for the training field are summarized, as well as their perceptions of the differences between training and teaching. (MBR)

Describes a longitudinal project in which organizational behavior management (OBM) procedures have been applied to improve performance of plant employees, increase sales of contract furniture, accelerate response time to customer inquiries, increase orders processed, and reduce processing errors at Krueger, a contract and institutional furniture…

Presents a case study and findings of a training needs assessment which was conducted to determine the training implications of implementing an integral system of quality assurance at the Fridley, Minnesota, plant of Onan Corporation, a manufacturer of electric generator sets and switch gear. (MBR)