A to Z Guide to Experiential Training and Development

Lisle, Illinois, May 2007

Tim Buividas is a co-contributor to the recently published A to Z Guide to Experiential Training and Development . This book was born out of a need to differentiate experiential training and development services that in the right hands can transform organizations. It offers an attempt to articulate the power, the value, and the essence of this often-misunderstood arena of corporate training and organizational development.

“It is wonderful to have a simple, fun guide to help people understand easily the nature of the work we (in the industry) provide our organizational clients,” remarked Jim Morris, Board President of the Experiential Training and Development Alliance (ETDA) who published the Guide. “In a confusing, competitive marketplace, this little book helps people understand the creative solutions to real business problems that we uncover.”

A combination back pocket tour guide complete with photos and maps, the book walks readers through core elements of the work involved in experiential training and development. For example, “T is for Transformation…experiential training can be a catalyst for transformation. In order to do things differently, we have to see things differently, and nothing assists people and groups to see things anew like experiential training. The answer is not to fix a problem, but to transform it.”

The Corporate Learning Institute’s programs teach, inspire, renew, and challenge your people to become powerful performers. Our expert consultation and facilitation ensures that participants learn the skills that are critical to their success back at work. Our bottom line is to help achieve both personal and organizational success.

The Corporate Learning Institute offers a continuum of services from short-term training events to full-scale change projects. For maximum return on investment, our services are custom designed for each client we work with. Our services encompass the following five areas:

Consulting Services: Our approach is rooted in process consultation, organizational behavior, organizational development and expert facilitation. We provide strategic planning, vision, mission and values development, change management, culture work and executive planning retreats.

Training and Development Workshops: These dynamic skill building sessions include leadership, management and supervisory training, performance accountability, change management, customer service, diversity, personality styles, conflict management, train the trainer and communication.

Performance Coaching: Our expert coaches provide assistance with team coaching and development, individual performance coaching and executive coaching.

Adventure Programming: We provide provocative Team Challenge and High Ropes Courses tangibly designed to target performance improvement.

Corporate Team Building Events: Our lively, well-orchestrated, and power packed events create awareness of your organizations goals.


ETD Alliance is a not-for-profit organization of experiential training and development professionals whose mission is to promote the awareness, appreciation, and use of first-rate services for business transformation and success. www.etdalliance.com