An evaluation of a course which attempts to teach students how to design programed materials for training programs. (AA)

A brief description of a video tape sequence designed to satisfy training requirements for several types of observation scales. (AA)

Discusses the use of role playing in training and the reluctance of adults in classroom situations to participate. Presents guidelines to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of role-playing resistance syndrome. (JOW)

Discusses some ways to help in training unskilled, marginal workers including explaining job importance, emphasizing critical points, allowing mistakes, keeping training sessions brief, using positive reinforcement, and rewarding progress. (JOW)

Results indicated that behavior training strategies used with developmentally disabled people were used nearly twice as often by staff identified as competent as by staff selected at random. Written behavior management programs tended to be used to decrease undersirable behaviors more often than to strengthen adaptive skills. (Author/CL)

Discusses the Managerial Grid versus Situational Leadership approach to management development. Suggests that they need to be supplemented by new theoretical models, called "Living Systems." (JOW)

Presents background information about terminology, the extent of corporate commitment to training, and the trainer's role before dealing with programs to train trainers. Recommended are training programs for trainers that provide multiple opportunities for interacting with other people under both simulated and real conditions. (Author/MER)

Discusses the advantages and disadvantages, the cost and benefits of teleconferencing as an alternative to travel for trainers and trainees. Gives examples of companies which are making use of this technology. (JOW)

Discusses the need for training of volunteer tutors used in literacy programs and describes a training program consisting of four workshops. (CHC)

Discusses whether corporate training and education needs are better served by one large training department or by many small training staffs directly controlled by the departments. (JOW)

The author briefly discusses the merits of various evaluation methods with special reference to evaluating the effectiveness of training programs. (BP)

How vignettes of real-life situations provide good training tools. (Editor)

Offers a four-step approach that highlights the key issues at each stage of the coaching process: (1) contract with the client; (2) observe and assess needs; (3) constructively challenge; and (4) handle resistance. (JOW)