EXPOSED
The document-production half of this job — writing modules, slide decks, job aids, quiz banks, e-learning scripts, compliance refreshers — is exactly what generative AI does cheaply and at volume, and LMS platforms are shipping it natively. What holds is live facilitation: running a room of skeptical supervisors through a difficult conversation, coaching new managers, reading whether a shop-floor crew actually absorbed the safety procedure. No license protects the role, so the shrinkage falls on content developers first and classroom facilitators last.
Mixed — a routine tier and a judgment tier. Needs analysis surveys, storyboarding, SCORM authoring, quiz-bank writing and post-training evaluation reports are all now one prompt plus a template — the 7 rather than a 3 comes from live delivery, role-play debriefs and one-on-one manager coaching that still require a person standing there reading the room.
Some physical or field component. You are in training rooms, on plant floors doing hands-on equipment demonstrations, and traveling between sites to deliver the same module to third shift — but it is a controlled indoor setting with a projector, not uncontrolled fieldwork, which caps it at 8.
No licence, no signature requirement. No state license gates this work; CPTD or SHRM credentials are resume items, and when an OSHA-required training turns out to have been inadequate the employer and the safety officer of record answer for it, not the specialist who built the deck.
Some relationship component. Repeat learners and the managers who request your programs know you by name and will ask for you specifically, but training is a scheduled corporate deliverable that survives your replacement — an 11 reflects real relationship value that stops short of the relationship being the thing purchased.
Meaningful discretion. You decide which delivery modality fits, what to cut from a four-hour curriculum, and whether to tell a director their team's problem is not a training problem — genuine discretion, but exercised inside budgets, compliance calendars and instructional-design frameworks someone else set, which is why it is 8 and not 14.
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