This guide contains an introduction to and the materials for use in the Local Office Decision-Making and Implementation (LODI) Workshop, a self-managed small group workshop designed to teach planning and management techniques for identifying and resolving priority needs of an agency's program. (A "need" is defined as the difference…

This paper describes how a five-day supervisor training program was designed and offered cooperatively for the personnel department of a city of 100,000 population. It includes the content and related learning experiences which were developed for the training and an evaluation of the results. The course covers basic supervision skills for newly…