Detailed description of the skills needed to succeed as a training manager. (SP)

The article concludes that authority oriented groups and trainers were least successful. Significant linkages have been found between data oriented trainers and two learning goals, and between people oriented trainers and two other goals. (Author)

Undergraduates, trained to discriminate understanding from nonunderstanding statements, verbally reinforced each statement they felt to be understanding during counselor interviews. Ratings indicated that beginning counselors had increased their understanding statements, suggesting that such statements can be a function of the number of…

Author discusses the need for a training program for adult educators. Problems of getting trainees for the programs, the type of staff and teaching methods to be used, and course outlines are discussed. (LF)

Report of a three-month combined ASTD - Agency for International Development venture with Walter J. Tait, training advisor and seminar leader. (Editor)

Pretesting not only helps determine the benefits of a training program, it can actually help trainees learn more. (Author/SSH)

This article describes the elements of trainer feedback, offers guidelines for giving and receiving feedback, and responds to common issues concerning the use of feedback in skill training groups. (Author)

Discusses how to recognize volatile situations, cope with the challenge, and reassert control in the training environment. Examined are ways in which hostility is expressed, statements of protest, when hostility triggers fear, coping with fear, ways of responding to hostility, and how to survive hostility. (CT)

How-to information for performing a skills audit is presented. Nine steps need to be performed in three separate phases: establish basic enabling skills data, compile the data, and summarize the data. A skills analysis can aid the training staff in deciding where to concentrate their instructional efforts. (CT)

Suggests action that performance technologists can take to incorporate multicultural considerations into institutional training programs: taking a multicultural inventory, developing screening tools, and using specific evaluation criteria. Alternatives for countering stereotypes/biases are presented, and information sources are provided.…

Examines learning points, the functions they serve in manager-employee discussion, how they are developed, and how to teach people to observe them, both in watching models and their own behavior. (Author/RK)

The demands that a global economy and technological change make on British vocational education and training professionals necessitate the new role of connective specialists, who retain the technical knowledge and skill base while taking a holistic view of curriculum. Teacher education is shifting to collaborative apprenticeship, enhanced by…

Workplace educators play a more holistic role of development specialists who plan, implement, and manage human resource development. This role requires skills in communication, employee relations, program development, change agency, and budget management. (SK)

Adult communication management theory proposes that communication takes place when individuals construct meanings about shared messages and accurately interpret others' intentions. Developing communicative competence requires assuming responsibility for learning, self-awareness, multicultural understanding, and learning-to-learn skills. (SK)

Professional licensure of human resource development practitioners is problematic for several reasons: lack of regulatory control, diversity of the field, divisiveness of licensure, inadequate evaluation procedures, and lack of need. A less formal approach emphasizing individual freedom, democratic peer review, and a free market is more…