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Once you have your needs analysis complete and know what kind of training that
you need to design, you can begin to gather materials that will help you reach your
objectives.
Your materials are a very important component of training. Make sure that the
materials you will rely on are current and applicable. There is no point in gathering
material about sales techniques, for example, when the techniques listed in your resources have been
well proven to be ineffective and are no longer used.
In addition, be careful with information that you glean from the Internet; while we can find virtually
anything on the World Wide Web, sometimes what you are finding is information, but what you actually
want is knowledge.
Copyright laws vary around the world, but they are uniformly strict. If you are using materials that
someone else has written (whether they are published or not) or you plan to include copies of articles or
other information, make sure that you have written permission from the copyright holder, and that you
note their permission properly within your materials.