1. Options for Optimizing Your Pre-Field Training
You Are Not Alone!
Options for Optimizing Your Pre-Field Training
Tim Wagner

2. Trends in New Missionaries
Shorter time commitments (1-4 year career)
Greater emotional/interpersonal baggage
Greater dysfunctional family history
Less Biblical/Theological understanding
Greater technological connectivity
Wider variety of anticipated ministries
Going to less hospitable environments
Greater desire for personalized attention
Softer missionaries going to harder areas

3. Trends in Ministry Locations
Greater multi-cultural/multi-agency dynamics
Greater accountability demanded
Less resources available (financial, personnel)
Greater geographical distance between team members
Greater diversity in types of ministries
Greater difficulty in political environment
Urbanization/globalization dynamics
More short-term teams to coordinate
Greater antagonism toward Americans

4. Training Dynamics of Trends Trends in Ministry Locations
Trends in New Missionaries
Trends in Ministry Locations
Training

5. Levels of Competence CIT Residential CIT Online
Unconscious Incompetence
Conscious Incompetence
Conscious Competence
Unconscious Competence
Conscious Unconscious Competence
CIT Residential
CIT Online
adapted from Creative Training Techniques Handbook, page 8

6. Blooms Taxonomy Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application
Comprehension
Knowledge
from Training Know-How for Cross Cultural and Diversity Trainers

7. Exposures for Stages of Learning
Awareness (Up to 6x)
Familiarity (7-8x)
Competence (9-10x)
Mastery (11+)
Notes taken from Bob Pike’s Train-The-Trainer Boot Camp Workshop

8. Activities Contributing to Learning Effectiveness
from Training on Trial, page 7

9. Typical Learning Investment
from Training on Trial, page 8

10. Causes of “Training Failure”
from Training on Trial, page 9

11. Training Application
from Training on Trial, page 9

12. Bob Pike’s Performance Solution Cube

13. Personal Plan (discuss with your immediate supervisor within the next 30 days)
Networking within your organization
Networking outside your organization
Research
Organizational Strategy
Member Care Issues resulting in disruption or premature departure from service
Stakeholder’s prioritized list of competencies for cross-cultural workers
Resources both inside and outside of your organization
Strategic Planning
Personal Retreat
Staff Retreat