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Best Practices & Outstanding Initiatives
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Training, 2012
In this article, "Training" editors recognize innovative and successful learning and development programs and practices submitted in the 2012 Training Top 125 application. Best practices: (1) Edward Jones: Practice Makes Perfect (sales training); (2) Grant Thornton LLP: Senior Manager Development Program (SMDP); (3) MetLife, Inc.: Top Advisor…
Descriptors: Management Development, Job Skills, Best Practices, Training Methods
Training Spaces
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Weinstein, Margery – Training, 2010
Creating a balanced learning space for employees is about more than trying different types of seating. It is a challenge that an affect how well employees absorb the lessons and whether they will be able to product better results for the company. The possible solutions are as diverse as the learners. This article describes how three companies…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Space Utilization, Industrial Training, Training Objectives
The Matrixed Reference Piece--It Just Might Belong in Your Training Program
Braga, Gary – Training, 1976
Sales, service, and production activity training programs might benefit from utilizing the matrixed reference piece, an inexpensive information and reference organizer well adapted to comparative procedural concepts. (Author/LH)
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Material Development, Program Descriptions, Reinforcement
Now Hear This!
Ford, J. Patrick – Training, 1976
Explanations regarding the evolution of traditional military instruction and descriptions of efforts to develop performance-oriented training techniques (Utrain) in the Army are presented. (Author/LH)
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Competency Based Education, Program Descriptions, Relevance (Education)
Why Aren't They Doing What We Trained Them to Do?
McNamara, J. Regis – Training, 1980
TRAINS (Training, Resource, Assessment, Intervention, and Network System), which can assist trainers in developing programs with transfer elements in them, is described. It enables trainees to do what they were trained to do, when they are supposed to do it, and where they are supposed to do it through generalized training. (CT)
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Program Descriptions, Program Development, Resources
The Advantages of Training People to Handle Stress.
Standke, Linda – Training, 1979
Reviews what stress is and how it affects people. Describes some company programs in stress management, and examines implications of stress training for trainers. (CSS)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Needs, Essays, Health Programs
Something Many Trainers Still Neglect: Responding to Individual Training Needs
Laird, Dugan – Training, 1978
The article discusses micro-training needs and various possible solutions, including existing programs, self-study programs, special assignments, field trips, coaching, seminars and workshops, university programs, and professional conventions and conferences. (MF)
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Faculty Development, Individual Needs, Individualized Programs
How to Set Up, Run and Evaluate a Training Program Based on Behavior Modeling Principles.
O'Connor, Terence – Training, 1979
The author describes the behavior modeling program for supervisors at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City. The program involves writing scripts to model supervisory behavior in problem situations, videotaping the behavior, and evaluating supervisory learning from before-and-after tapes. (MF)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Communication Skills, Employer Employee Relationship, Inservice Education