Looks at how trainers can use managers and participants as resources in drawing up workshop objectives. Emphasizes planning as a critical first step in creating an effective workshop design. Examples focus on a one-day supervisory skills training workshop. (CT)

Presents a model for constructing and evaluating an effective alumni volunteer program to aid the student recruitment effort. A review of successful programs reveals certain common features and provides important touchstones for other schools looking for the principles and practices with which to organize their own efforts. (Author)

The role of helping professionals is emerging as an integral part of a comprehensive program. "Resource resourcefulness," a developmental phase of any such program, requires special knowledge and skills on the part of all helping professionals, from counselors to career education specialists. A resource can be defined as any source of information,…

Presents results of a survey of supervisors and managers in business and industry which was undertaken to identify topics for supervisor training programs. A table showing importance ratings of program topics by occupational groups is included and implications for the design of continuing education programs are discussed. (SK)

This document, one in a series developed to provide technical assistance to 22 Long-Term Care Gerontology Centers, discusses the rationale for the development of gerontological education as well as the content and program focus of career training and continuing education. The next section examines the current literature on education for long-term…

Presents a step-by-step systems approach model consisting of seven major components including: informing and involving key groups, defining problem/goals, needs assessment, formulating objectives, designing program, implementing program, and evaluation. Includes procedures, flow chart presentations, and guidelines for program planning. (RC)

For those individuals wishing to know more about the topic, this publication provides an introduction to industry-specific training. The need for industry-specific training programs (ISTPs) is addressed. An overview follows of how to develop the capacity needed in state and local organizations to design and implement industry-specific programs. A…

Describes why counselor training incorporating the needs of racial and ethnic minorities is needed and provides four models: (1) the separate course model; (2) the area of concentration model, (3) the interdisciplinary model; and (4) the integration model, which may be used in program development and implementation. (Author)

Presents Multicultural Program Development Pyramid, five-tiered framework outlining stages of multicultural counseling training (MCT) program development. Describes pyramid as laying out path of critical choice points in MCT development, beginning with generation of explicit philosophy of training and proceeding through stages of identifying…

Discusses factors in a changing society that will make it necessary for companies to revamp their human resources function. Topics include technology, demographics, emerging career categories, human resources planning, benefits, legal trends, and training and development. Tells how to revamp the human resources function. (CH)

This series of reports explores a statewide solution to the work force problems in Texas. The previous report, A Call to Action, described the current status of the Texas work force and introduced the concept of the Human Investment System as a means to improve that status by making human investment and people-serving programs and services in…

The history of school psychology in Indiana is presented in this booklet, which also provides insight into how the profession came to be and how it was developed and documents many of the professional and political issues that impacted program development. General factors influencing the development of school psychology, including army…

Community and junior colleges play a vital role in the economic development process. They serve as catalysts in planning and implementing the efforts of the involved groups. They also provide technical assistance through program offerings, services, and resources. There are specific ways that each group involved can display a commitment,…

Presents a model for simultaneously addressing the problems of illiteracy and the counseling requirements of the skill training programs in Third World countries. The model includes advisory committees, needs analysis, staff development and training, program assessment, and a placement and follow-up component. (KH)

The Family Support Act of 1988 requires each state to set up a Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Program (JOBS) to provide a work/education/training program for recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) by October 1, 1990. The law provides a broad outline for JOBS leaves the critical decisions to the states; hence, the major…