An organizational development specialist tells how he prepared a management workshop on conducting effective meetings by first interviewing the managers and finding out what they wanted. Includes his "front-end analysis" questionnaire and the workshop format. (MF)

After noting that adult educators should examine how to facilitate learning in a training situation, the author describes three experiential activities (for use in the opening sessions of workshops or seminars) which allow the participants to become acquainted with each other and thus, help establish an atmosphere conductive to learning. (EM)