Concern over the impending retirement of several top-level managers led a county agency to engage in efforts aimed at more efficient succession management. Administrators developed plans to prevent the loss of invaluable knowledge and wisdom accompanying retirement of experienced agency leaders. The agency's Director of Finance (DoF) was one of the first key figures projected to retire, and a s...

I was eager to join the trip, as it was one of my first to check out the action in the field, but the discussions that we had now seemed obvious. The field staff shared reports on the trainings that they conducted and members of the community described the practices that they had taken up as a result: from setting up vegetable gardens to conserving local seed varieties. There were, of course, c...

Professional development can be achieved independently by reading books, scientific journals and other literature. But professional with participation in international trainings, courses seminars, the authors consider as most valuable. This report reviews problems opportunities for of physical education sports professionals internationally. The aim is to present increasing qualification pedagog...

The philosophy of quality assurance (QA) and total quality management is derived from industrial and commercial practice. We propose the adoption of international standards ISO 9000 (used in industry and commerce) to higher educational institutions to assure and improve the quality, efficiency, and delivery of their programmes and services. This paper examines the scope and structure of a QA sy...

The N otre Dame A rm y ROTC b a tta lio n trudged through the woods and slept unde r the stars th is past weekend w h ile conducting their semi-annual field tra in ­ ing exercise. The field training, or FTX, is a m il i ta ry tra in in g event intended to prepare jun io rs fo r a leade rsh ip camp the summer before senior year. Over 80 cadets — freshman through juniors — and senior staff left N...

Als Wissensvermittler aus dem Bereich Requirements Engineering arbeiten wir SOPHISTen stetig daran, die Vermittlung von Fachwissen zu verbessern. Dabei entstanden Trainings nach dem Blended Learning Ansatz, bei denen in einer Onlinephase deklaratives Wissen selbst erarbeitet, und in einem abschließenden Workshop auf die Praxis übertragen wird. Im Folgenden stellen wir Ihnen den theoretischen Hi...

This paper gives a basic guideline for the development of trainings using serious games. It describes a framework for the training with serious games. It shows how to define a training goal and describes the process of learning to reach this goal. It points out a methodology how to design successful trainings with serious games.

Background & Aims: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a functional intestinal system disorder defined with specific intestinal symptoms and no organic cause. Since mental problem is one of the main factors in etiology of this syndrome, studying the impact of psychological therapies on IBS seems to be useful. The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of problem solving and assertivene...

In this article, we discuss affective time management discourses in academia. Drawing on our experiences of and brain fitness trainings at a Finnish university, examine how the use control are increasingly pressing societal political matters affecting academic work globally. Time training resources, such as guidebooks, websites neuroscience-inspired staff sessions, seen potentially fostering ha...