At a three-day meeting some executives of the Drackett Co. and representatives of the broker sales force took part in a grid team approach to the problem of improving relationships between the brokers and the Drackett organization. (SA)

Examines the three components which form the basis for designing and offering career transition workshops for employees at Goddard Space Flight Center: structuring support systems, providing cognitive information, and planning. (CT)

Describes the development of a 40-hour creativity workshop for trainers and managers, and some of the results obtained. (AN)

For a workshop to be successful, it must have characteristics such as organization, acceptable pace, well-defined objectives, and adequate facilities. Trainers court disaster if these are not present. Includes symptoms of dysfunctional behavior by participants, causes of this behavior, and strategies to deal with it. (JOW)

Describes the process of developing a procedures manual for federal court administrators: the draft was used as a "pretest" questionnaire and a workshop was conducted to train staff in the use of the manual. (SK)

Written by the producer of the workshop, a description of his workshop was used as the basis for a discussion of the effectiveness of videocassettes to stimulate learning in workshop situations. Among several important factors in its success are: keeping the size of the viewing group small; achieving a sense of reality in the taped training…

A program for upgrading female supervisors'' that involves changing women's attitudes towards themselves and other women. (Editor/SP)

Four authors discuss the benefits of using games and icebreakers in workshops and training situations and give examples. (JOW)

Describes a career/life planning program. Its elements include orientation to career/life planning; personal assessment and planning strategy workshops; and skills assessment. Evaluation procedures and results are included. (CT)

Discusses a cooperative effort between Gulf Oil Corporation and Chatham College in Pittsburgh to offer a career development program for women. Details the organization, content, and assessment of the program. (JOW)

Workshop and conference improvement becomes a function of planning, linking, evaluating and following up on all aspects of the workshop experience. (ABM)

Examples of the type of questions that should be asked in evaluating training programs. (SP)

The first of a two-part series of articles on how we can improve the quality of workshops is concerned with the functions of the design committee in the planning stages. Workshop objectives, participants, and design are discussed in detail. (BP)