The Take Charge Trainer Program - Background
The Take Charge Trainer idea is that any team functions at its highest effectiveness when all members of that team share common values; the same perspective on team objectives and how those objectives serve the overall business strategy of the parent organization. That's why the Take Charge Trainer program develops a broad, top-down view of the training function.
The Take Charge Trainer program challenges participants to take on the top role, that of Training Manager or training designer. It is a game -- a simulation -- but by "playing the game" participants learn how to handle each step in the process. More importantly, they learn how to make the decisions that must be faced at each step. They learn a structured approach to decision making as well as to the training development process itself. This empowers everyone, from team leader to the newest, least experienced member, to share a common focus and common commitment to delivering quality, effective results. It encourages an entrepreneurial attitude from top to bottom of an organization.It's Learn-as-you-go Playing out the simulation replicates how learning occurs on the job, minus the uncertainty associated with such trial and error learning. Participants progress from phase to phase of the training process, learning the rules, the choices available at each phase, and how to tell whether that phase was successfully accomplished. This is "just-in-time" learning; demanding, totally involving, and practical; the essence of effective adult learning.
Over thirty years of experience as a training design and development specialist provides the basis for this program. Stan combines the experience of doing everything from writing programmed instruction and av scripts to producing entire performance development programs and managing a training development department. An active interest in innovation, entrepreneurial approaches and adult learning concepts play a part in everything he does.
The Take Charge Trainer program evolved out of a proposal to the local chapter of ASTD (American Society for Training and Development) for a new way to provide a train-the-trainer workshop for its members. Stan has been an active participant in that society, having started and chaired the Creativity in Training Special Interest Group, promoted the idea of applying Total Quality Management techniques to the operation of the chapter, and, in general, trying to serve as a catalyst (or, as one person put it, the "troublemaker") for the chapter. This web site, the Consultants Mall, is Stan Berliner's creation and a growing part of his overall professional activities.
For more information, contact Stan Berliner at 
berliner@consultants-mall.com.
Or call: 212 799 5239.
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