Learning from one another;

              TRAINING DIRECTORS SEMINAR
Stanley Malis, Hartford
LEARNING
FROM
ANOTHER
How to deliver quality training was
the theme of the Haskins & Sells
Training Directors Seminar held at the
Marriott Motor Hotel in Chicago,
November 5-6,1971. The people
attending were training directors and
personnel specialists from H&S practice
offices, plus visitors from six offices
in other countries, two consultants
from university faculties and members
of the Professional Education &
Development Department in the EO.
The time of the two-day meeting was
almost equally divided between lecture
sessions and group discussions in units
of six or seven people. In the course
of the seminar, as always at similar
H&S gatherings, the majority of the
participants took the opportunity to
meet colleagues from other practice
offices and to share experiences and
matters of concern with them. The
emphasis was on discussions and on
learning from one another.
This was the fourth Firm-wide meeting
of this type held by the PE&D
department since 1965. Each has been
tailor-made for the needs of the time,
and special emphasis was given this
time to a new course, the Effective
Teaching Skills Workshops, which
had been pretested in the
Philadelphia office.
Under the direction of Colin Park,
the partner who heads PE&D, the
department prepares and updates a five-year
program of required core courses
for H&S staff members. Additionally,
a number of other courses to meet
special needs have been produced. The
near future will see greater emphasis
placed on industry training and on
advanced training for management.
Development of more effective teaching
methods also will be stressed.
The pages that follow provide
glimpses into the proceedings of an
intensive two days spent by a hundred
people, all dedicated to keeping
Haskins & Sells in the front rank
among organizations of
trained professionals.
A MEETING TO SWAP
KNOW-HOW
In his opening remarks to the seminar
participants, Colin Park explained
the dual character of the meeting. The
conference brought PE&D department Eugene Jennings, Michigan State University
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