We'll draw upon our expertise in the area of interpersonal skills training, as well as the work of psychologist Sidney Jourard, to do so. It is important to realize that training does indeed constrict, reduce variance, diminish freedom and limit autonomy. Participants in training workshops often sense this more than the consultant does. Many times trainees will verbalize their discomfort at having to respond in such a limited way. The effective trainer will not merely reflect what they have said, but will try to get inside the trainee's frame of reference and sense how lacking in spontaneity it is for that person to give patterned responses.
Many trainees sense that there is something wrong with it at least as a final outcome.
Paradoxically, though training and education can be seen as producing opposite results, training can serve the goals of education in two ways . First of all, training is directed toward behavioral outcomes . Unfortunately, much of what is called education is only a sterile exercise of the disembodied mind. Often it does not touch the emotions or influence action. Effective training, however, concentrates on behaviors.