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CAROLYN S. BALLING |
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Carolyn S. Balling
focuses her training and consulting energy on ensuring that delivered training
fits the audience and their needs, and that it sticks and transfers to the job.
Her areas of specialty include skills needed by trainers (intentional as well as
accidental and occasional trainers), those who make presentations, and people
involved in getting results through others.
Carolyn’s experience
as an internal trainer includes:
She
started her training career in Bozeman, Montana, designing and
delivering programs for adult volunteers in Big Sky Girl Scout
Council.
Carolyn is a frequent
presenter at national training conferences (sponsored by Training Magazine,
corporations and trade associations), and local training organizations.
Described as "a great combination of witty and knowledgeable", she is
well-known for her lively, informative, energetic sessions. She is the author of
"Fit to Train--how to succeed at training delivery (without really
tiring)",
(Lakewood 1997). In addition, she contributed to Managing the Small Training
Staff, edited by Carol McCoy (ASTD, 1998) and both the 1999 through 2003 editions of
the Training and Performance Sourcebook, edited by Mel Silberman (McGraw-Hill).
Previously she has
been an instructor in the University of California Berkeley Extension's Training and HRD Certificate
Program, and chaired the Advisory Committee for that program. She has served as
a national volunteer trainer for Girl Scouts USA, on the board of the Golden
Gate Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development, and on the
Advisory Board for Lakewood Conference's "Training Directors' Forum."
Away from the world of training, Carolyn coaches marathon walkers for the
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training program and competes in
marathons herself.
Carolyn holds degrees
from the University of California, Berkeley (B.A., Social Developmental Psychology)
and California State University, Hayward (M.S., Education). When not on the
freeway or working, she lives with her husband in the Oakland hills.
Carolyn S. Balling,
M.S., is a San Francisco area consultant whose training career stretches two
decades back into the previous century. Along the way she has assessed numerous
training and performance needs, designed, delivered and evaluated training
programs internally and externally for industries ranging from non-profits to
stock brokerages, and has managed training functions. Favorite audiences include
people developing their own training skills and management employees seeking
skills to help present effectively and do their jobs better. She is the author
of "Fit to Train: How to Succeed at Training Delivery (without really
tiring)".
