The flying bedstead — or objectives without tears

Abstract

The bedstead framework, as presented in this article was created as a result of helping a fellow trainer. He was running an appraisal training course and had a problem in helping the delegates clarify standards of performance. One of us was using a flipchart to show him how standards can be seen to surround a task in a time relationship, when the other appeared on the scene and put some structure into the idea by separating the various standards with lines. Haying done this, we re‐drew the lines by themselves and this in turn prompted the comparison to a bedstead. Regardless of the fact that neither of us can now see anything much like a bedstead in the shape, it has remained, and always will be, the bedstead to us.

Citation

MORRIS, M. and FIELDS, R. (1975), "The flying bedstead — or objectives without tears", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 7 No. 7, pp. 279-283. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb003477