Training & Development Managers

Also called: L and D Director (Learning and Development Director), Learning Manager, Training Director

Career Cluster: Business Management & Administration
What they do:
Plan, direct, or coordinate the training and development activities and staff of an organization.
On the job, you would:
  • Analyze training needs to develop new training programs or modify and improve existing programs.
  • Evaluate instructor performance and the effectiveness of training programs, providing recommendations for improvement.
  • Plan, develop, and provide training and staff development programs, using knowledge of the effectiveness of methods such as classroom training, demonstrations, on-the-job training, meetings, conferences, and workshops.
Knowledge icon KNOWLEDGE

Communications
  • multimedia
Education and Training
  • teaching and course design
Arts and Humanities
  • English language
Business
  • management
  • human resources (HR)
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Social
  • teaching people how to do something
  • changing what is done based on other people's actions
Basic Skills
  • using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
Problem Solving
  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
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Ideas and Logic
  • come up with lots of ideas
  • use rules to solve problems
Verbal
  • communicate by speaking
  • communicate by writing
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People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.

They do well at jobs that need:
  • Initiative
  • Leadership Orientation
  • Innovation
  • Adaptability
  • Social Orientation
  • Achievement Orientation
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You might use software like this on the job:

Presentation software
  • Caliban Mindwear HyperGASP
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Web page creation and editing software
  • Adobe Dreamweaver
  • SAFARI Video Networks eZediaQTI
Computer based training software
  • Common Curriculum
  • Moodle
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Bachelor's degree or Master's degree
usually needed
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Salary:
High: $219,990.00
Median: $127,090.00
Low: $75,810.00
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