This document is one in a set of four documents which present a personnel development program aimed at improving the competence of instructional leaders in planning and implementing curricula in generic work skills. (Generic work skills are defined as those skills that facilitate the operation of goal-oriented groups involved in the accomplishment…

Major cultural differences impeded the smooth transfer of a 14 day management education program, which had been very successfully used in Western settings, to an Asian situation. Thirteen Chinese and two Caucasians, all of whom worked in Southeast Asia and had management degrees, attended the program to improve their skills in influencing those…

In January 2006 the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) launched its draft publication, "A Professional Development Framework for e-Learning" (ePD) for consultation with the post-16 education and training sector. In March 2006 the Learning and Skills Council funded the Learning and Skills Network (LSN) to run a pilot to…

These two manuals provide a suggested format and materials for a one-day workshop designed to train the trainers of counselors who wish to be consultants, as well as to train the counselors to be consultants. Although counselor-consultants can serve many populations, the focus of these manuals is on services to teachers. The trainer's manual…