This article explores the concept of supervision and its implementation within a youth work context. The article describes and explores a process of staff development facilitated by the author which involved providing supervision training to a group of youth work practitioners at Cork YMCA in Ireland and continuing to meet them on a monthly basis…

A joint police-business program called Police Management Workshops is paying big dividends in management skills and civilian-police cooperation. (Author)

Taking on the role of literacy coach can be a daunting task for even seasoned educators. In this article, the author examines her experiences in this role as work for a university class she was taking. In a sense, she "tries on" the coaching role in order to discover if it is a job she would truly be willing to take. She discusses the…

The Empathic Rational Action (ERA) model is presented as an introductory training program for clinical supervisors. This system, said the authors, requires supervisory action as process rationale, to include objective data collection. (Editor/RK)

Describes a program designed to upgrade the skills of business owner/managers and supervisory personnel. (SB)

Describes a brief training program for cooperating agency supervisors providing field experience in a rehabilitation counselor education program. Emphasizes consumer involvement throughout and goes beyond didactic instruction to provide structured practice in applying target skills to actual supervision problems. (Author/RC)

The two year program combines classes in business, management, and graphic arts technology to train students for supervisory and mid-management jobs. (Author)

Describes New York Telephone's Ultimate Goals Opportunities program, which trains women for jobs in the technical management area of the company. (IRT)

This article describes a training program to increase supervisory skills in manpower agencies. Supervisors taking part in this program were employed by a state manpower agency in Maryland and trainers were university faculty in rehabilitation counselor education. Participants' reactions ranged from satisfaction to resentment at the selection…

Supervisors often need to solve complex problems through the process of interpersonal communication. The Effective Personal Communication Program, developed at the School of Education, University of Massachusetts, is based on a step-by-step approach to improving verbal and non-verbal communication. Here is a description of the program and a brief…

Describes a model program developed at Emory University for training Resident Clinical Supervisors, master teachers who teach part-time while providing clinical supervision of other teachers in their school. (JG)

Describes a training program that makes a particular effort to achieve transfer of training to the job and some preliminary research indicating the effectiveness of the transfer. (Author/RK)

This paper describes a creative approach for training counselor and counselor educators that provides collaborative interactions among students and faculty in several university training programs. Structured around a problem-solving activity and self-reflection questionnaires, undergraduate teachers-in-training were given an opportunity to receive…

Describes a program in which line managers were taught in a reasonable amount of time how to conduct management training programs for other managers. (EM)