Training and development encompasses three main activities: training, education, and development.

Training

This activity is both focused upon, and evaluated against, the job that an individual currently holds.

Education

This activity focuses upon the jobs that an individual may potentially hold in the future, and is evaluated against those jobs.

Development

This activity focuses upon the activities that the organization employing the individual, or that the individual is part of, may partake in the future, and is almost impossible to evaluate.