Following the publication in our last issue of the TRAINING DESIGN ALGORITHM by the Industrial Training Research Unit there have been enquiries about the several specific techniques mentioned in it. In later issues we shall be dealing in greater detail with training and learning techniques; in the meantime here is a more comprehensive statement on DISCOVERY METHOD presented by Dr Meredith Belbin, whose name is the one most closely associated with the method. Later this year we shall be publishing several articles demonstrating the principles in action.