John A. Peart

An infantry colonel met an Irish sergeant and said, "Sergeant, I heard & 7 o you around the camp this morning shoot-ing at random," Murphy replied, "Yes, sir, and I hit it, too."

Look At Your Training Objectives

At 9:00 a.m., August 21, five repre-sentatives of ASTD sat down with representatives from three government agencies and the TWI Foundation in Washington for a conference called by the National Security Resources Board. ASTD members were: F. S. Laffer, President of ASTD and Training Direc-tor of Cleveland Graphite Bronze Com-pany, Cleveland, Ohio; C. A. McBride, Secretarv-Treasurer ASTD and 1 rain-ing Director, Osborn Manufacturing Company, Cleveland, Ohio; John Peart, Training Director, I he North American Aviation Company, Los Angeles, Cal-ifornia; H. J. Gemuenden, Montreal Mining Company, Montreal, Wiscon-sin; H. Walter Shaw, McGraw-Hill, New York, who also represented the National Association of Training Direc-tors and the Industrial Training Coun-cil of New York State.

Astd Representatives At Washington Meeting

"If you gave three individuals the same job to do, you would probably find that each one had his or her own way of doing it--even though the steps or process involved required a particular sequence," wrote John D. Bies and Joel A. Turetzky in their June 1982 Training and Development Journal article on styles of work. This image is a Style of Work model that is based upon the concept that an individual's style of work is made up of three behavioral elements influenced by two conditional elements, all having interactive effects on total work style.Just like learning styles, everyone works differently. How many work styles have you encountered? Is it a major issue in the workplace, or just a sign of individuality?For more information about T+D magazine, visit www.astd.org/td.

John A. Peart

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