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Training and Development System

Notes

Notes Five ways to bring a little more balance to your daily routine:
1. Build downtime into your schedule. When you plan your week, make it a point to
schedule time with your family and friends and activities that help you recharge.
2. Drop activities that sap your time or energy. Many people waste their time on
activities or people that add no value — for example, spending too much time at
work with a colleague who is constantly venting and gossiping.

3. Rethink your errands. Consider whether you can outsource any of your time-
consuming household chores or errands.
4. Get moving. It’s hard to make time for exercise when you have a jam-packed schedule,
but experts say that it may ultimately help you get more done by boosting your
energy level and ability to concentrate.

5. Remember that a little relaxation goes a long way. Don’t get overwhelmed by
assuming that you need to make big changes to bring more balance to your life.
Slowly build more activities into your schedule that are important to you.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
10. Specific areas for developing positive thinking through training are stroking, positive
reinforcement, active listening and …………………….

11. Interpersonal effectiveness emphasizes …………………. transaction, which ensures
complete communication and problem solving approach.
12. Motivation helps in satisfying human needs through complementary team actions and
............…………. approach.

14.5 Increased use of Technology for Training

While innovation in technology is often talked about, can there be innovation in the methods of
training? Is there an Indian ethos in training? Are there useful Indian experiments in training
techniques worth emulating? These issues figured prominently in the ISTD Convention in 1988.
The discussion centered a round four main themes: (a) Worker training and development for
meeting the challenge of new technologies; (b) Making management training practice more
acceptable; (c) Need for training those in public administration and the growing services sector,
where the need is pronounced, particularly in customer dealing, and (d) Methods of training
trainers themselves. The gap between management and workers, akin to that of five-star and
slum culture, was lamented and the need for sufficient opportunity through training for workers
to build up their latent skills and knowledge was emphasised.
The advantage of bringing workers and managers together in vertical integrated training
programmes was stressed. Multi-hierarchical training was advocated by Pekka-Kansi of Finland,
who was invited to share his experiences.
Companies have realised that fostering a sense of belonging among the employees, right from
the time of induction, pays in the long run. Those like National Fertilizers Ltd., have training
programmes, even for workers’ wives on holidays where the company policy, practices and
culture are discussed. It was found that absenteeism was considerably reduced as the wives
made sure that their spouses did not stay at home when expected to go to work!

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