•  Grow people—primary way of improving your effectiveness; the most important part of training revolves around an individual growing in all aspects of his life.
•  Teach how to use tools—what is simple to the person who is already trained is still new and daunting to the untrained, and the skill of teaching how to use the tool is different than the skill of using the tool; learn how to be a good teacher.
•  Create expectations—more inspections early are the best times to make adjustments to the levels you expect.  Expectation can be trained and communicated but not until you practice can you confirm the level of expectation
•  Form new teams—knowing the overall purpose and each person’s part of that purpose is crucial to the unity of the team; discipline, wisdom, vision, initiative, and humility are key components.
•  Practice communication—teach your team how to interact, and share piles of information in a timely manner; think of communication like machine oil that is necessary at all times to eliminate friction.

Opening Question

1. What’s the worst thing that could happen during training?
2. Most answers revolve around some form of not being prepared to do the thing I am training for.

Closing Thoughts

•  Trained teams don’t happen on accident or evolve naturally.
•  Training never stops—we have concentrated time at the beginning but training should never stop.
•  All training should remind people how to deal biblically with conflict with other people.