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Boot camp for trainers

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, July 2, 2004

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In order to protect training budgets from further decline, there is a critical need to prove the importance of staff education to organizational executives. Last month, the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) partnered with a Massachusetts-based publisher to design "boot camp" for corporate training directors. The two-day workshop, part of ASTD's annual conference, taught directors how to gain support and funding for training programs from the corporate office. Directors are under immense scrutiny to show the need for and the results of training, the workshop was designed to help directors translate those tasks into business terms in an effort to solicit cooperation from their organizational leaders. The boot camp facilitators focused on essential business skills that ASTD identified in their new competency study, "Mapping the Future: Shaping New Workplace Learning and Performance Competencies." The skills include understanding and contributing to strategic initiatives, aligning training proposals with organizational strategy, and making recommendations from a business point of view.
Source: Business Wire

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