The Trainer's Journey to Competence: Tools, Assessments, and Models

"A valuable resource for anyone involved in training and performance improvement. Jean has done a marvelous job analyzing the key functions performed by training professionals. The clear and concise checklists, tools and templates should help the reader to better assess the successful behaviors needed to manage, design, and deliver effective learning solutions."
--Michael Nolan, president, Friesen, Kaye and Associates

"Barbazette has taken the mystery out of competencies...her book is comprehensive, yet simple and straightforward."
--Judith Hale, Hale Associates, and author, Performance-Based Certification

"It takes a senior practitioner like Jean to ‘tell it like it is’ with this great sourcebook for those who want to grow their current skill set."
--Dr. Beverly Kaye, founder and CEO, Career Systems International, and author, Up is NOT the Only Way

"Here is the beginning of a great series that experienced trainers have been waiting for. The templates are great job aids for trainers, course designers, training managers and coordinators."
--Mel Silberman, president, Active Training, author, Active Training and 101 Ways to Make Training Active

The Trainer's Journey to Competence

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 to those 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 companion CD-ROM 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 that provides practical guidance trainers, course designers, training managers, and training coordinators who want to take their career to the next level.

"A valuable resource for anyone involved in training and performance improvement. Jean has done a marvelous job analyzing the key functions performed by training professionals. The clear and concise checklists, tools and templates should help the reader to better assess the successful behaviors needed to manage, design, and deliver effective learning solutions."
—Michael Nolan, president, Friesen, Kaye and Associates

"Barbazette has taken the mystery out of competencies...her book is comprehensive, yet simple and straightforward." 
—Judith Hale, Hale Associates, and author, Performance-Based Certification

"It takes a senior practitioner like Jean to 'tell it like it is' with this great sourcebook for those who want to grow their current skill set." 
—Dr. Beverly Kaye, founder and CEO, Career Systems International, and author, Up is NOT the Only Way

"Here is the beginning of a great series that experienced trainers have been waiting for. The templates are great job aids for trainers, course designers, training managers and coordinators." 
—Mel Silberman, president, Active Training, author, Active Training and 101 Ways to Make Training Active