About Training aktuell

Training aktuell

Training aktuell is the German trade magazine for trainers, consultants, and coaches, published monthly since 1990 by the managerSeminare Verlags GmbH, the Bonn specialist publisher. The magazine delivers professionally relevant information, recommendations, and assistance for continuing education professionals, with the fixed sections Information, Inspiration, Organisation, Interaktion, and Reflexion. The editor-in-chief is Nicole Bußmann, the Chefredakteurin, with Gerhard May as managing director, the Geschäftsführer, and the print ISSN is 0939-2688.

Overview

The monthly rhythm gives the continuing education profession a regular industry pulse: twelve issues a year, each structured by the five fixed sections that the Wikipedia article documents. The Information section's market data, survey and study results, and reports on trends and changes give the trainers, consultants, and coaches the industry intelligence that their professional practice requires.

The Inspiration section's methodological journalism addresses the profession's core craft: the new training and coaching approaches, the usable train-the-trainer offers, the readable media, and the new training tools. The section serves the practitioners who need to keep their methodological repertoire current, from the classroom trainers to the executive coaches.

The Organisation section's business journalism serves the trainer as entrepreneur: the suggestions and aids for Unternehmensführung, for office and self-management, for marketing, and for positioning. The independent trainers, consultants, and coaches, who make up much of the readership, need the business management guidance alongside the methodological content.

The Interaktion section's service journalism maps the industry's social infrastructure: the trade fairs, congresses, and conferences worth visiting, the associations and their activities, and the meeting places where the profession gathers. The Reflexion section's industry mirror, with the training institutes reflecting their goals, dreams, and defeats and the market observers commenting on the trade, gives the profession its self-critical voice.

Training aktuell is the Zeitschrift für Trainer, Berater und Coachs: the monthly magazine for the training, consulting, and coaching professions. Its editorial program delivers the professionally relevant information, recommendations, and aids that the Weiterbildungsprofis need: the market data, the new training and coaching approaches, the business management guidance, the event and association landscape, and the industry's self-reflection.

The magazine's five fixed sections structure each issue: Information with the important market data, survey and study results, and reports on trends and changes from the industry; Inspiration with the new training and coaching approaches, the usable train-the-trainer offers, the readable media, and the new training tools; Organisation with the suggestions and aids for business management, office and self-management, marketing, and positioning; Interaktion with the answers to which trade fairs, congresses, and conferences are worth visiting, which associations do what, and whom one meets where; and Reflexion, in which training institutes reflect their goals, dreams, and defeats and market observers comment on the industry.

History

The 1990 founding places Training aktuell in the generation of German professional media that grew with the continuing education boom after reunification, when the training market expanded rapidly and the trainer profession professionalized. The magazine's three and a half decades have documented the industry's structural transformations: the seminar business of the 1990s, the e-learning and blended learning revolution of the 2000s, the coaching boom and its professionalization, and the current digitalization and AI debates.

The managerSeminare Verlags GmbH's continuity as the publishing house marks Training aktuell as an independent specialist publisher's title, the Bonn-based house that has served the training industry alongside its magazine, its book series, and its professional events. The Edition Training aktuell's Train the Coach volumes, with their concepts, models, theories, methods, exercises, and interventions for the professional continuing education of coaches and organizational developers, show the publisher's depth in the coaching segment.

The magazine's longevity in a changing media market documents the training profession's durable demand for curated professional journalism: the monthly print magazine has survived the internet's disruption of specialist publishing by serving the practitioners' need for evaluated, practice-relevant information.

Training aktuell has been published monthly by the managerSeminare Verlags GmbH since 1990, making it one of the longest-running German trade magazines for the continuing education industry. The Bonn-based specialist publisher's three and a half decades of training journalism have tracked the profession's transformations: from the seminar boom of the 1990s through the e-learning revolution, the coaching professionalization, and the current digital and AI debates.

The Edition Training aktuell book series extends the magazine's brand into specialist publishing: the Train the Coach volumes on concepts, models, and theories and on methods, exercises, and interventions for the professional continuing education of coaches, team coaches, change agents, organizational developers, and executives, edited by Bernd Schmid and Oliver König and published by the managerSeminare Verlags GmbH.

Coverage and Content

The market intelligence journalism serves the profession's business side: the important market data, the survey and study results, and the reports on trends and changes from the industry that the Information section carries. The trainers, consultants, and coaches need the market overview to position their own offerings, from the corporate training budgets to the coaching demand to the digital learning trends.

The methodological journalism serves the profession's craft: the new training and coaching approaches, the train-the-trainer offers, the readable media, and the new training tools that the Inspiration section presents. The section's practical orientation, the usable offers and the readable media, reflects the practitioners' need for applicable innovation rather than academic theory.

The professional community journalism serves the industry's social fabric: the Interaktion section's guide to the trade fairs, congresses, conferences, associations, and meeting places, and the Reflexion section's industry self-examination. The training institutes' reflections on their goals, dreams, and defeats, and the market observers' commentary on the trade, give the magazine its distinctive insider voice.

Training aktuell covers the continuing education profession's full working world: the market data and industry trends, the training and coaching methods, the business management, the events and associations, and the professional reflection. The Information section's market data, survey and study results, and trend reports give the readers the industry intelligence they need; the Inspiration section's new approaches, train-the-trainer offers, media, and tools give them the methodological innovation.

The Organisation section addresses the trainer as entrepreneur: the business management, the office and self-management, the marketing, and the positioning that the independent trainers, consultants, and coaches need. The Interaktion section maps the industry's meeting places: the trade fairs, congresses, and conferences worth visiting, the associations and their activities, and the people one meets where. The Reflexion section gives the industry its mirror: the training institutes reflecting their goals, dreams, and defeats, and the market observers commenting on the trade.

Organization and Ownership

Training aktuell is published by the managerSeminare Verlags GmbH. The editor-in-chief is Nicole Bußmann, the Chefredakteurin, and the managing director is Gerhard May, the Geschäftsführer. The print ISSN is 0939-2688.

Current ownership details beyond the managerSeminare Verlags GmbH are not publicly confirmed in the sources reviewed; the Bonn publisher's imprint is the ownership record the sources carry.

Digital Presence

Trainingaktuell.de is the magazine's digital home, with the current issue, the archive, and the subscription service for the monthly training title. The Edition Training aktuell book series extends the brand's digital and print publishing.

Dedicated apps or podcasts for the Training aktuell brand are not detailed in the sources reviewed; the brand's digital presence rests on its website, the monthly print magazine since 1990, and the Edition Training aktuell book series.