Productive Program Development: A systematic process for achieving goals you only imagined reaching

He believes any goal that can be operationalized can be achieved. He outlines a systematic process for program development – complete with emotional, physical and intellectual skill development – you can use over and over again throughout your life.

In nine chapters, Dr. Carkhuff introduces concepts that have been used by thousands of people to develop living learning and working programs:

· Preparing for Acting - get a good index of where you are, then you can determine where you want to be.

· Defining Objectives – know who and what is involved, what do they do, when and how do they do it and how well do they do it.

· Developing Tasks – develop the tasks you need to perform to achieve your objective.

· Developing Steps – develop the steps you need to perform to achieve your tasks.

· Employing Check Steps – employ check steps before, during and after to prepare to attach criteria.

· Attaching Criteria – prepare to implement the program by incorporating milestone and time-lines.

· Implementing Programs – review, rehearse and reinforce until you achieve mastery.