OREANDA-NEWS. December 07, 2009. The HR-Club meeting ‘Knowledge is light, ignorance is darkness!’ took place in the Saint-Petersburg State Educational Institution of Continuing Professional Education ‘Scientific-Methods Center’. This meeting was aimed at arrangements for HR-trainings, sharing experiences, discussion of best practices for the transfer from external trainings to internal ones. The HR-Club summarized its work for the first year of its activities. The participants shared their views on the issues discussed - which ones were the most interesting and informative – and worked out their plans for the forthcoming year, reported the press-centre of Energy Consulting.

The meeting was arranged as a round-table discussion. Among the participants of this event were HR-experts from different leading enterprises and financial institutions of St. Petersburg, physiologists and facilitators from different training centers of the city.

At the beginning of the meeting, Vera Chesnokova, Psychologist & Member of the Coordination Council of The Psychologists, Psychiatrists & Trainers Guild, reported about her personal participation in the process of the transfer from external trainings to internal ones and about the main trends in the field of HR-trainings. Natalia Zubenko, the HR-Club Project Manager, gave some examples of the training practices arranged for different companies. In the course of the meeting all the participants have managed to work out a reference curriculum for the internal trainings in their companies.

At the end of the meeting, the attendees participated in a psychological training ‘Prevention of burnouts of an internal trainer’, arranged by Anna Ivashina, Acting Medical Psychologist. The participants of the training have learned the relaxation and stress-relieve techniques which could be applied in practice in a time of work.

The next meeting of the Club participants takes place on December 11th, 2009, 6 p.m., in the office of BALT-AUDIT-EXPERT. It is aimed at the motivation issues, in particularly, as follows:

Motivation system construction;

Some aspects of the short-term & long-term motivation;

Tangible and intangible motivation aspects.