The article describes video receivers and monitors and shows how they can be used in business and industrial training departments to tape network or packaged television programs for employee skills training, motivational programs, or entertainment. Some sources of this equipment are listed. (MF)

Managers look at online training as an activity that should be done "off time" whereas employees still think of it as something to be done during working hours. No valid study has shown that online delivery reduces learning time. A better understanding of learning needs must be considered before requiring online training. (JOW)

An executive of a large oil company and member of the International Tape Association, an organization for users and suppliers of audio-visual equipment, describes the usefulness of the association's services to trainers in business and industry in a telephone interview. (MS)

The new J. Carlton Smith Educational Center, training center of Southwestern Life Insurance Company, Dallas, Texas, utilizes a 3,600 square feet facility and employs a wide range of methods to make life underwriting training fast and interesting. Multimedia instruction is the key to their effective educational programs. (MW)

Reviews a number of books and films on behavior modification techniques in training and provides names and addresses of publishers. Presents information to give managers and trainers a choice of different reinforcement and feedback mechanisms. (MF)

Discusses the peer-training model, opposition to the plan, major objectives of the model, strategies for motivating employees to train and for making training a priority, training the trainer, ongoing training in the work units, and benefits of the program. (CT)

Among the topics covered in this small-meeting planning primer for trainers are choosing facilities (resorts, hotels, conference centers), pre-meetings for site inspection, negotiating with the facility and getting agreements in writing, selecting food and beverages, and travel and logistics. (MF)

Training in human relations will help managers improve productivity of employees, according to the author, who reviews numerous suggestions and plans for improving production and then proposes several techniques for trainers to use in training supervisors and managers. (MF)

An interview with Joe Harless, President of the Harless Performance Guild, on the much talked about technique of evaluating training packages, called front-end analysis. (BP)

Addressograph Multigraph's training facility brings field personnel in and also creates courses to be sent out. (Author)

The report on a U. S. Civil Service Commission study of disincentives to effective training offers a summary of the disincentives process, a training climate check list, and practical suggestions for minimizing impediments. (MW)

A management development program at an RCA division is based on the views subordinates have of their supervisors. (Author)

Multiple-image projection, an exciting new audiovisual technology, offers more effective learning environments today, 360-degree training simulations tomorrow. (Author)

For detailed information that needs to be retrieved occasionally before being memorized, individualized instruction is the key. Unfortunately, many executives confuse the term with the program instruction which they studied in the early 1960s. Information is provided to help the trainer convince management that self-paced learning succeeds, and…