In this article, the authors argue that poetry provides a valuable if overlooked resource to the organizational behavior professor. The authors describe a workshop designed to evoke students' innate poetic metaphors to enable a more lively engagement with course material. Because many of students' personal, private, and emotionally charged…

Describes personal development as a process of individuals acting and reflecting on the world and themselves. Discusses practical issues faced by facilitators in setting up and running self-development groups; focuses on the structure of the process; and presents guidelines. (JOW)

Describes how training managers initiated a senior management development program to help an organization develop a new approach to managing change and upheaval. (Author/JOW)

With an increased need for managerial professional development, seminars and workshops for improving supervisory, managerial, and executive performance have been developed. Some experiences from the Center for Executive Development at Southern Colorado's School of Business are described. (Author/MLW)

This handbooks for participants contains materials for a three-day workshop on stress management in corrections. The workshop is intended for correctional administrators and managers, to enable them to produce a stress-management plan for identifying and remedying such problems as employee disability, alcoholism, drug abuse, and distressed…

The Furniture and Industry Training Board set out in 1965 to find a means of successfully implementing management training in small firms. The author describes research efforts undertaken by the Board which led to the development of the training program now in use--management development based on company appraisal. (AJ)

Examination of numerous studies of executives of small manufacturing firms in Iowa offered insights on their attitudes and actions regarding educational seminars. Findings showed that 62.7 percent of manufacturers attended at least one seminar in the last year. The term "seminar" had a better customer satisfaction rating than…

Discusses extending distance education into Inuit settlements across the Canadian North and illustrates the need for adult education for preemployment training. Describes the Atii pilot project, carried out in 1993, and its potential for developing the newly self-governed territory of Nunavut by upgrading Inuit management at a distance. (AEF)

This module is the third in an inservice education series for extension professionals that consists of seven independent training modules. It covers how to acquire and exercise leadership skills and how to identify, recruit, develop, and work with community leaders. The three units in this 12-hour workshop are identifying and working with leaders,…

A study assessed the need of various levels of management in the shipping industry of the United Kingdom for computer literacy training. During the study, researchers interviewed managers in eight shipping companies identified as using computers, spoke with managers and consultants from five companies actively engaged in designing and installing…

This guide is intended to assist practitioners involved in facilitating action learning (AL). Examined in Part 1 are the following topics: principles of AL (distinctive features of AL, purpose of AL sets, life span of AL sets, values underpinning AL); independent versus organization-sponsored AL sets; AL set operation (time, tone setting, set…

The Cabell County (West Virginia) Public Schools Retail Training Program provides four types of on-site training for the employees of area businesses, whether product or service related. The program provides on-the-job training in entry-level, first-line supervisory and management positions as well as in entrepreneurship. The program's strong…

Proceedings of a seminar on the role of American Indian agency boards of directors and executives are reported in this document. Sponsored by the Native American Educational Services (NAES), the purpose of the seminar as presented in the introduction was "to help boards of directors and executives come to grips with the ramifications of their…