/influencing skills. Outlines models for change while investigating their implications for training. Concludes that management …Reviews essential skills needed by trainers in the face of recent change including technical, people and intervention … collaboration and involvement are essential for training, and that a trainer can only be effective if he or she possesses those …

participants are given power. Points out that such training involves people′s behaviour, as distinct from simply their capacity to … improve their recruitment and training if they made use of active learning and appraisal. Active learning may seem …, superficially, to be more expensive than passive learning and assessment, but inappropriate training and recruitment can prove to be …

operations. Managing the transition from trainer to consultant can be helped by attending external training programmes. Trainers …Argues that trainers are, more than ever, being asked to reconcile corporate agendas with human values. This may mean …

Reports on work to ascertain the financial worth of management training, based on consideration of various companies …′ best practice, a review of the relevant literature and a project implemented as a new approach to such evaluation. Presents … a model which has been successfully applied and which shows that training can contribute substantially to a company …

beehive hairstyle. Explores the link between training and a quality culture.  …The idea that companies should provide their employees with less training, not more, is about as fashionable as the …

evaluating courses, and claims that thorough evaluation can add value to training.  …Most training courses do not ask delegates to evaluate what they have learned, merely what they think of the course …

The pace of change in training in recent years has been frantic and shows no signs of slowing. There have been many … innovations in methods of delivery, as straightforward lectures give way to distance learning, company‐based training or … development. New ways of assessing training programmes are common. Innovations are usually tested in pilot programmes, to assess …