Ha, funny thing is, back when I was a contract trainer for the state of Texas, we were governed by very specific criteria that specified, among other things, exactly how long a given training should take. Of course, those lovely little specs never took real life into account, and so you could always tweek them if you needed to. The rule of the game there was to document everything. As long as you could point to the training report you filed and say, "I explained that under the section labeled Training Environment in item five," you were good.

I did that particular job for five years, and when I started, there were no specs whatsoever. By the time I finished, there were specs for every part of the training process, and for a lot of them they used the training reports I filed to write them. I know they did, because the template they ended up using for the example training reports was exactly the same as the one I originally designed. LOL Highest form of flattery, or something. I wish I could figure out a way to put that on my resume.

Thanks for reading. :)

Dan