I have an aquantance who has been an elementary school teacher for the last 10 or so years. She now wants to leave the profession and move into training for corperations.
Have any of you experience with this transition? Have any of you tips or hints for her?
Thanks! 
No experience with such a switch but I am a corporate trainer.
Needless to say it will be a totally different experience. For example, I don’t make my students line up alphabetically, or raise their hand and ask permission to use the restroom. 
Your friend may find the switch to be a bunch of fun, or they may hate it completely. I think it would depend on just how lockstep they are to some of the stuff that was taught in college about learning, and how flexible they are.
I don’t think I have ever met a corporate trainer of any type that was concerned about Learning Modalities past the point of realizing that different students learn things in different ways. IMHO you have to be a lot more flexible when teaching in a corporate environment. I knew HS teachers that had used the same course outline for 10+ years. I am lucky to get 6 months out an outline.
There will be last minute fire drills. Many training positions involve travel, sometimes lots of travel. You need to be a flexible type that can get a call on Sunday night to fly to Boston on Monday’s redeye and drive straight from the airport to class and teach all day.
When ever there is a performance problem, the unknowing will assume that it is a training problem (many times it isn’t) They will need to know the difference.
I could go on for several more pages, but my e mail is in my profile, you may pass it along if they have any questions.
Thanks Rick. I thought about it a couple of days and I have decided not to forward your email address. But I really appreciate the offer!
No problem. Offer is still open if you change your mind.