Team Training: Towards an Integrated Approach

Abstract

Managerial jobs are episodic, fragmented and action based. Training has attempted to reproduce this reality in the contents and methods used. It is possibly more sensible to allow fragmentation of time for training but to integrate subject matter in short blocks. This leads to the desirability, possibly the necessity, of integrating the efforts of the trainers to produce a consistent, coherent and unified approach to contents, methods and style. A means of using a team approach is suggested so that training resources, whether internal or external, are seen by the clients as being owned by the manager responsible for the supply of training activities in the organisation.