Testimonials:
The Training Physical:
Diagnose, Treat and Cure Your Training Department
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While this book seeks to outline an overall approach to the health of your organization, it
cannot tell you everything you need to know about the health of your organization.  We do
need to think of and look at our organization as a living organism.  All organizations have a
mind, body, and a spirit and when any part becomes diseased it spreads to all parts and can
cause eventual death.  In business terms, that means the different parts can become
diseased and quit functioning, impacting the profitability of the organization.   Depending on
the origination of the disease, the symptoms, the recommended treatment, the prognosis
can save the organization and return it to being healthy.

Self-diagnosing or self-medicating is dangerous, as it is with our own health.  It takes a
specialist who is trained and experienced to facilitate the design and delivery of the exam,
the audit.  In most circumstances the specialist, is supported by a team of experts with
different areas of expertise to maximize the fact that all the human systems are open and
functioning to their full capacity for the overall health of the organization.  This approach
avoids blind spots and other dangers associated with trying from the inside to audit the
organization and the multiple systems that need examination.
In the chapters that are included in this book, leaders and managers are introduced to a wide range of approaches and
methods for initiating and maintaining the health of the organization.  Attention is directed to minimum level of
performance of any department within the organization and any of the external events or vendors that can impact the
health of the patient at any time any place.

You are urged to confront personal biases and prejudices that may compromise the audit of the patient and the different
departments that are representative of the mind, body, and spirit of the organization.  The guiding principles are the
mission, vision, goals of the organization to meet the needs of delivery of the product or service to the external customer.   
There needs to be an understanding of the internal customer relationships while conducting the audit.


- Toni Johnson
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As an HR employee by day, I think that more attention needs to be paid to training
employees. On a team where I used to work there were many inconsistencies with how
each employee was doing the job.

There weren't set procedure or guidelines to follow, and as such, everyone did their job a
bit differently. I think it's important to re-evaluate the training programs that are in place
each year, just like getting a physical each year.

This book has some great points!

- Melinda Joy
The annual physical is a key to long term health. "The Training Physical: Diagnose, Treat,
and Cure Your Training Department" delves into maintaining one's business training
department, where many of a corporations problems can happen before they start.

Using the metaphor of the medical physical, James Hopkins gives readers a good deal of
advice for the process.

"The Training Physical" is a solid tool for businesses!

- Midwest Book Review