For the purposes of this paper, a stakeholder is defined as a person or group with an interest in seeing an endeavor succeed. For example, most employees have an interest in seeing their companies succeed. So do that company’s suppliers, its customers and the community in which the company is embedded. Similar-ly, most trainers have an interest in seeing that the training they develop and deliver is successful. There are others who want training to be successful, too. Chief among them are the managers who sponsor or fund the training, the managers who manage the training department and last, but not least, the trainees. A list of typical training stakeholders follows: