The industry report of employer-provided training includes charts depicting training budgets, who's learning what and how, trends (including work teams and social issues), and technologies for training. (SK)

Training jobs are paying more as companies realize their value; e-learning is forcing more firms to focus on training and trainers. Trainers should understand the business, be proactive, conduct needs assessments, know when to say no, embrace technology, understand adult learning, become subject-matter experts, and measure return on investment.…

Conceptualizes learning within experiential and constructivist perspectives as a complex interplay of orientation, elaboration, and integration. Illustrates the model with the case of a training program aimed at organizational change. Identifies tensions between the three components and the trainer's role. (Contains 26 references.) (SK)

Trainers need to update and maintain their offerings at the cutting edge to keep up with the Net Generation. These younger workers do not want or expect lifelong employment or company loyalty. (JOW)

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)

Standards of conduct, roles, and responsibilities expected of athletic trainers should be developed and disseminated. These guidelines could be used in court to show that the athletic trainer was following basic standards if he should be charged with liability. A review of liability cases involving athletic injuries received while athletes were…

In the traditional sense of the word professional, the occupation of trainer does not seem to fit. However, in terms of qualifications and competencies, trainers are moving toward that category. Sheffield Polytechnic is currently developing courses to help trainers improve their competencies through reading material, exercises, projects, and…

A presentation is given on training and development for leadership in the 70's. It is divided into three sections: (1) trends affecting the future of training and development, (2) responsibility of training and development for change through the learning process, and (3) looking at the role and behavior of the training professional. (CK)

The use and acceptance by Navy personnel of sixteen major training devices were studied in relation to: situational factors affecting training; simulation characteristics of the trainer; instructional characteristics of the trainers; reliability of the trainers; formal and informal communications regarding trainer capabilities, and level of…

The Trainers of Teacher Trainers (TTT) Program at the University of Miami is summarized in this booklet. Topics covered include strategies for change, project growth, 1970 strategies conference, participants-strategies conference, conference consultants and evaluators, information about the speakers, speech digest, directed observations, and…

Many human resources development (HRD) people play out self-fulfilling roles of incongruency with top management, but when management resistance to change is real, the six strategies offered in the article can be used by HRD specialists to help themselves and their companies. (Author/AJ)

The author presents a framework of "design principles" for trainers in designing management learning events, based on the humanistic school of thought and the personal growth of the individual, with the model being applicable to group training. (MF)

A training consultant writes about the common practice of training for appearances and the length of time spent on it, rather than for the actual outcomes. He stresses the importance of well-designed instructional objectives as a means of judging training effectiveness and offers a questionnaire for trainers to try out to check their knowledge of…