Dis: An in‐company WORKSHOP

company training officer Johnson Matthey Chemicals Limited John Carlisle was born in Kitwe, Zambia. He worked in the Zambian Copper Mines from 1961 to 1962, before studying Economics and Sociology at Rhodes University, Grahamstown. South Africa. Here he worked under Professor James L Irvine, a sociologist particularly interested in human relations in industry. During 1966 he worked in Germany and in England. He then returned to Rhodes University as a post‐graduate student of Industrial Psychology and Industrial Sociology. From 1968 to 1970 he was employed in the Group Training Division, Anglo American (Central Africa) Limited, Zambia, developing recruitment, selection and placement techniques and progressional routes for Zambian mine personnel. He is now Company Training Officer at Johnson Matthey Chemicals Limited in Enfield. His special interest is evaluation and validation of selection and training techniques. John Carlisle was one of the delegates who attended the first public seminar on Developing Interactive Skills, presented by Neil Rackham and Peter Honey in July 1971. Subsequently, he conducted his own internal company course and here recounts his experience.