This book presents time saving strategies, tactics, and a host of job aids to get the best result from the corporate learning function. It will serve both as a must-have reference tool and as a practical survival guide for workplace learning professionals who face unique challenges in accomplishing their responsibilities. Several strategies and tactics are offered to organize the roles and responsibilities of the training function. There's authoritative advice, too, for managing the function including staff management, communicating expectations, setting the learning agenda, coaching subject matter experts, hiring consultants and vendors, managing content, working with learning portals, setting up and managing a learning resource center, marketing and building internal support for training, and integrating learning into the business.  

The Trainer’s Journey to Competence draws on Jean Barbazette’s thirty-five years of experience in training trainers. The book serves as both a useful source of career advice for those in the training field, and as a starting point for creating a role-specific professional development plan. Professional trainers can use this resource to assess their knowledge, skills, and attitudes and use this information to create an individual development plan. The book can be equally helpful when creating internal training certification programs for organizations.

The Trainer’s Journey to Competence is filled with numerous assessment tools for benchmarking current competencies and identifying gaps in knowledge and core skills. The book also includes a companion CD-Rom that is filled with checklists, tools, forms and templates that can be easily customized to address particular situations.

The Trainer’s Journey to Competence is the first volume in The Skilled Trainer series which provides practical guidance trainers, course designers, training managers, and training coordinators who want to take their career to the next level.