Provides step-by-step guidelines for designing a form to evaluate participants' reactions to an instructor's preparation and delivery. Includes a sample instructor audit. (JOW)

Addresses these questions: Who can solve problems? What is creativity? How can human resource development foster an environment that nourishes creativity? Describes approaches--problem centering, encouraging learning-theory perspective, mentoring, and diversity. (SK)

Identifies the top 50 companies in terms of the amount spent on training and development, the number of hours of training per employee, and percentage of payroll spent on training. Profiles the top five plus four additional companies selected by the magazine's editors. (SK)

Ten characteristics of "servant leadership" include the ability to do the following: (1) listen, (2) heal, (3) persuade, (4) conceptualize, (5) develop, (6) dream, (7) trust and build, (8) communicate, (9) evolve, and (10) promote. (JOW)

An often untapped source of knowledge in organizations originates in informal learning environments. Managers are now accountable for developing and training staff; intranets are among the tools managers need to foster learning. (JOW)

A survey of trainers' (n=2,003) salaries compared salaries based on size of companies, geographic location, level of education, experience, gender, and age. At $60,794, the average training salary is only 2.8 percent higher than last year, compared to a 4.6 percent increase for the average salaried employee. (JOW)

Adapts the gap model (comparison of service recipients' attitudes before and after service delivery) into a human resource development (HRD) service management model. Delineates linkages among organizational mission, internal customers' mission, performance needs, and HRD mission. (SK)

Teacher behaviors were rated by 102 students from the United States, 142 from Asian cultures, and 73 from Western cultures (Canada, Europe). U.S. students rated clarity, enthusiasm, interaction, and spatial-behavioral communication more highly than Eastern students did. Western students rated all but spatial-behavioral communication more highly…

Athletic training was spawned from physical education in the 1960s, and since that time has evolved into a recognized health care profession. The majority of accredited athletic training education programs (ATEPs) are housed within academic units of kinesiology. However, the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) has recommended that ATEPs…

This study examines the experience and perceptions of training managers and training suppliers with respect to provision of e-training to corporate clients--a rapidly growing area of commercial activity. In particular the study explores the justification for implementing e-training and the consequent benefits which are anticipated by training…

In planning any meeting there are three primary considerations: (1) the program and accompanying facility needs; (2) location and accessibility, and (3) timing. Many resource materials provide a valuable aid to the meeting planner and professional consultants are available. (MW)

A non-technical synthesis of the major developments in programed instruction serves as an introduction to the content of this paper. The paper includes some determination of the extent to which programed materials are being used by Federal agencies and how these uses compare with those found by Bryan and Nagay in an earlier study. The paper…

Intended to serve as a resource, this model for training trainers of paraprofessionals consists of ten 3-hour sessions. It spells out the objectives of a particular training program, how these objectives were achieved, and an evaluation design. The contents and objectives of each session are set out in detail, including samples of the task…