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Step Eight Summary
Professionalism as a trainer encompasses many facets. Primary ones
discussed in this step are:
Review of the skills trainers need•
Ways to enhance these skills•
The portfolio concept for managing and maintaining skills•
Technology and the need for trainers to keep up with what’s •
available
Trainer’s ethics•
Summary of the eight steps to effective training•
Training Skills Revisited
Step One identifi ed a number of skills that trainers need (actually,
they are closely related to the skills all knowledge workers need).
The purpose of professional development is to improve these skills,
as well as to take steps to acquire any newly emerging skills. As a
review, here ...