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By Peter Honey (June 2009 Issue)
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An odd thing has happened to me: I’ve completely changed my mind about something! Let me explain. For many years I have designed and run courses for a whole host of clients. Some of these courses are in-company and customised, and some are open programmes on interpersonal skills, team working and the like. Throughout it all I have had a guiding principle: I have always been firmly of the opinion that what happens before and after a course is far more important than what happens during it.

This is not in any way to under-estimate the importance of the ‘durings’, but to remind me to invest considerable energy in getting good things to happen before and after. I always, for example, involve line managers in setting the objectives for the training, planning in advance how they (not me!) will evaluate its worthwhileness and getting them to brief participants so that they arrive with realistic expectations – even with some relevant learning objectives.

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