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Martyn Sloman

By Martyn Sloman (December 2008 Issue)
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In autumn 2000, I decided it was time to move on from Ernst and Young, where I was director of management education and training. I started networking by contacting my friends at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (then the plain IPD). I discovered that there was a vacancy for a research adviser and discussed it with my wife. She urged me to forget it: they would never be able to match my salary and the journey to Wimbledon would be an impossible one.

Well, the pay must remain a matter between me and my employer and, if you live in Norfolk, Wimbledon does seem to be half way to the Scilly Isles. However, I took the job and it has proved to be a very happy and successful eight years. I’d like to use this last column in Training Journal to reflect on the high points and the low points and on what I will and won’t miss.

Let’s start with the high points: most of these concern the contact with trainers – at home and, for me perhaps most enlighteningly, abroad. In 2006, I worked on a book that explored whether different models of training and learning applied in different countries.

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