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Trainer Application Form

When you submit this application, it is automatically mailed to Gary Gagliardi. He may have additional questions about how you plan to use our training materials that he will send you via e-mail.

You don’t need previous experience in professional training to join our program as an Apprentice. Part of its purpose is to help people who are capable of teaching move into professional training. However, if you want a Master or Independent Trainer license, we expect that you have experience in training.

1. Personal information:
    Your e-mail address (please use the same e-mail address as for any memberships or purchases from the Science of Strategy Institute)

    Your Name:

    Address:    

    Your City/State/Country:  

    Phone Number:   

     Vertical markets or industries you have experience in: 
     

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2. What type of training license are you applying for?
    (Select type of license below.)

     Master Trainer License: A Master Trainer must have worked successfully as a trainer running his or her own business and want to focus exclusively on teaching our STARS (Sun Tzu's adaptive response strategy) program. Master Trainers control in a specific geographical territory and are responsible for training new Trainers in that area.

     Independent Trainer License: An Independent Trainer is currently offering training and wants to include our material in his or her offering and may or may not work exclusively offering our material. Independent Trainers may work in a vertical market and are not licensed to train new trainers in our methods.

     Apprentice Trainer License: An Apprentice Trainer is comfortable speaking in front of groups but doesn’t currently make his or her living in training or consulting. Apprentices learn the training business by working under the direction of a Master Trainer.

      Internal Trainer License:  An Internal Trainer is licensed to use our materials for training people only within one specific organization. Internal Trainers are often licensed after one of our Master Trainers has trained people in the organization and it wants to expand or maintain strategic training.
      

3. What geographic area do you normally work in (most important for Master and Apprentice Trainers)?

     

4. Are you current offering or have you offered either individual or business training?
    Yes     No
     If yes, please describe: 

     How many years of experience do you have in offering training, if any?

5. Please describe your level of familiarity with classical front-line strategy, Sun Tzu, or other forms of strategic training.

     

6. Please briefly describe your training or public speaking experience and history:

      

7A. If you are applying as a Master or Independent Trainer, please answer the following additional questions:

    a. Do you currently own your own training/consulting business?
                Yes  No
    b. What market(s) do you focus and for how long?  
        

    c. Do you have a special area of knowledge or expertise?
                Yes  No
        If yes, please describe briefly:

7B. If you are applying as an Apprentice Trainer, please answer the following additional questions:   

     b. Are you planning on training part- or full-time?
                Part-Time  Full-Time
     b. How do you currently support yourself?
        

     c. Do you have a special area of knowledge or expertise?
                Yes  No
        If yes, please describe briefly:

7C. If you are applying as an Internal Trainer, please answer the following additional questions:
     a. Organization name:  

     b. Are you currently a manager or trainer within the organization?
                Yes  No
     b. Which reles in the organization will you be training?  
        

8. About your Listen-Aim-Move-Claim orientation. None of the answers below are right or wrong, but describe the ways you usually prefer to advance your position.

    a. When asking information, what type of information do you prefer people to give you:

Objective facts about the past

       Subjective Opinions about the future

    b. What type of result do you prefer:

Consistency - For example, when ordering from a new menu, do you usually order what is familiar?

       Novelty - When ordering from a new menu, do you order dishes that are new and different

    c. Do you prefer tasks that:

Depend on you alone for their completion

       Allow you to work and depend on others

    d. What type of rewards are most important to you:

Visible rewards that are tangible

       Emotional rewards that make you feel good

      e. What percentage (out of a total of 100%) of your personal motivation comes from:

      Making financial progress and obtaining economic security

      Learning something new and earning professional respect

      A desire to make the world a better place

9. Why is this a good time in your life for you to start teaching adaptive strategy?
     

10. Where would you like to be ten years from now? Can you describe the ideal situation?
     

 

 

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