At 11:39 AM 10/15/2001 -0500, robert a Helfer wrote: >Brother > I hope you don't mind if I wade in here,I live here in >Springfield & Know the National Staff Personally. > I believe you need to go on with training as if their is no new >program coming, > 1What if for some reason the new program is > delayed? Are you going to hold up on training.
Don't suggest something like this unless you know something about a possible delay. And since the possibility of a delay did not come up in the national executive committee meeting this past weekend, folks can still count on the new program being officially launched in March at the national council, with implementation at the local level in September 2002. The only possible hold up at this point in time is a couple of the books that are now scheduled to be finished by GPH in August 2002. Many of the books are scheduled to be available at national council in March. The time period between the launch in March and implementation in September is for training and becoming familiar with the new materials and advancement trails. > 2.What is it going to hurt to train your > Leaders twice Possibly confusion? Why put a new commander through the entire existing LTC now, training him or her on the existing program, only to tell them next March that there is now a new program with yet additional training required. The length and complexity of our training program is turning off commanders right now -- why add to that when we don't have to? The national training committee recommended last March that the existing LTC be phased out by the end of December 2002, and that everyone who wants to earn their LMA under that plan have it complete by that date. The new training program WILL be released next March -- all modules required to earn the new LMA plus many of the optional training modules. Any certified instructor who attends the national council next March will be able to leave there prepared to begin the new training program immediately. > My suggestion Train,Train Train No argument there -- after all, I'm a training coordinator. My only concern is that we train wisely through this transition period so that commanders get what they need both for today and for the future. The initial post in this thread mentioned spending time today training on soul winning, the outpost meeting, and running effective meetings. Those seem to me to be reasonable areas to emphasize today, as most of that information carries over to the new program very nicely. Jonathan __________________________________ Jonathan Trower South Central Region Training Coordinator e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 254-420-1941 RR homepage: http://mis.baylor.edu/trower _______ To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://rangernet.org/subscribe.htm http://rangernet.org Autoresponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
