agree that one of the most important moves a company can make after professional development is an ongoing follow-up.

"Once the training is over you need a vehicle to act as a conscience. Clients should slot a time period for it. It is a natural follow to the original training. I'm finding myself more involved with the follow-up,'' said Mr.

Doyle, a trainer and speaker for 14 years.

He is also a course leader for the American Management Association, the Bermuda Employees Council and the Bermuda Insurance Institute.

"It is terribly important because if you do the training right, the client leaves with a lot of expectations and the presentations are centred around action-oriented results,'' he continued.

The co-founders of the business, a training and consulting firm started July 1, agree. Clients can leave a presentation and find it difficult to put into practice the ideas presented there.

"It can be difficult as people get back into the day-to-day business,'' said Mr. Linnegan, a former director of the Bermuda Insurance Institute and a former director of the Chartered Insurance Institute's management and supervisory training programmes in London.

"Prior to the tourist season we were involved with Transitions International in a team-building effort,'' said Mr. David Dodwell, owner and managing director of The Reefs. a hotel which employs about 100 people.

"This builds self-esteem, makes everyone aware of the importance of everyone else's job at The Reefs and it helps me to identify potential leaders,'' he commented.

One of the assignment's was a survival scenario. In groups, staff were asked to imagine themselves stranded on an island and given a list of items and asked to prioritise the articles. This exercise showed how staff worked together and how they ranked according to significance, he explained.

Mr. Geoffrey Frith, president of Container Ship Management, said, "We found our association with Transitions International useful for various training and strategies.'' He added the company was interested in accessing "an independent third party as a facilitator to make the business even more effective.'' "We have clients in the local and international markets and with companies undergoing budget considerations at this time, it's important they consider training and development,'' added Mr. Linnegan.

TI not only provides the human resources side of training but also the computer literacy side as well, continued Mr. Linnegan.

"You have to have both, without human resources skills you might not succeed, and in Bermuda you have to have the PC skills as well,'' he commented.

TI offers a half-day computer demonstration which includes topics such as; windows, multimedia, CD ROM, PC-based faxing, using DOS in a Windows environment, and EXCEL, a Microsoft spreadsheet application.

"Everyone has a PC but it is amazing how little is being done with them,'' he concluded.

TI co-ordinated a recent seminar for the EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) committee of the Chamber of Commerce, and their next effort will focus on CD ROM/Multimedia PCs in the workplace and is slated for early 1995.

EFFECTIVE INTERACTION -- Mr. Ian Linnegan, left, and Mr. Stuart Doyle, co-owners of Transitions International, a training and development consulting venture, earlier this year combined forces, the former with computer skills, the latter with professional training. They now look to increase their client-base.