This is a comprehensive training handbook for the Group Analytical Planning (GAP) program, a 12-hour program that trains individuals and groups in the skills of group leadership through the process of action-oriented planning. The handbook describes the step-by-step process that groups should follow in order to effectively achieve planned change. Suggestions for implementing GAP include ensuring that the group is representative of the people to be affected by the plan; familiarizing participants with one another; discovering if the group clearly understands its task; sensing if participants need to develop trust relationships; and determining a goal, means to accomplish the goal, and ways to tell if the goal has been achieved. Overall objectives of the GAP program are that the learner will be able to (1) lead groups in planning; (2) train groups in planning; (3) teach and write performance objectives; and (4) list the steps in managing a system, problem-solving, and decision-making. (Author/JG)