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political processes, and in implementation they remain
subject to pressures both supportive and hostile.”
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This section presented a number of conditions that
will facilitate the pilot implementation of a training module.
The next section addresses various obstacles to that
implementation.
10.4 Obstacles to implementation
There is also a series of obstacles to implementation. ABT
Associates has identifi ed a number of these.
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The following
three obstacles are of particular interest to us:
1. disappearing training intervention;
2. variable implementation;
3. shifting training audience.
10.4.1 Disappearing training intervention
The training intervention is the trainer's execution of a
script.
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This script is executed (or performed) by the
trainer(s) in specifi ed training facilities, within allocated
space and allotted time, and employing requisite training
materials. It is performed for a specifi c audience, a specifi c
group of trainees. The training intervention disappears when
the trainer fails - for any number of reasons - to perform the
script within that space and time, for those trainees. The
trainer might not be profi cient in performing the script,
resulting in a clumsy performance; the trainer might not
have physical access to the script, resulting in an impromptu
performance; the trainees might be inattentive or asleep, etc.
In any case, should the training intervention disappear, there
