Big six 2002 - Front Page - Brief Article - Editorial

T+D, May, 2002

This issue marks the fourth annual Training's New Guard. It started in 1999, when then-senior editor Jennifer Salopek began scouting people in the training arena who were doing things a little differently or approaching from a different perspective perhaps. Salopek's now a freelancer, but she's still vetting the candidates and writing the New Guard profiles.

This year's group of six is made up of a member of a team at the University of Tennessee that developed a course on dealing with terrorist attacks, called Bioterrorism 101; a Chicago commissioner whose mission is to create quality, holistic workplaces where people can balance work and life; a trainer of movement-oriented instruction, based on dance; a CEO who makes computers available to disadvantaged people and others in their homes; and a VP who considers diversity awareness and attitudes to be her highest priority.

This issue of T D also presents the second edition of our new column, Speaking of Ethics, which describes a real-world ethical dilemma in the workplace and provides responses from practitioners on how they would handle those situations. And there's a great human story on customer service training of the volunteers at the Winter Olympics.

We always say the May issue of T D has the greatest "thud factor." It's our biggest issue of the year and is distributed at the ASTD International Conference and Exposition--this year in New Orleans. If you're reading this copy there, look me up. I happen to be from New Orleans and can point you to all of the fun places.

As we say in the Big Easy, "Laissez le bon temps rouler!" Let the good times roll.

Haidee E. Allerton

Editor