Supervisory and managerial training through communication by objectives

Our dissatisfaction with classroom learning as an organization's only training vehicle, combined with our determination to conduct training which produces changes in employees' knowledge, attitudes and behaviors, led us to develop the communication by objectives approach to individualized instruction. Although this process requires the investment of a considerable amount of time by the trainer and, to a lesser degree, the participants' immediate superiors, we have found that the process is unequalled in the changes which it brings about. Properly instituted, it is the most effective training procedure of which we are aware.