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Moving Ahead:
"How To" Steps to Achieve Results

This section provides step-by-step guidance on how business and its partners can better develop and manage their programs. Included are practical information, management tools, and resources to link internal business policies with services and programs to support employee and family involvement in education. Applications by business colleagues of procedures, strategies, and programs will be highlighted throughout this discussion.

Employee and family involvement in education can be broken down into four steps:

STEP 1: Assess and analyze employer, employee, and community needs.

STEP 2: Establish a framework for the initiative:

• Engage and commit top management to effect policy and program decisions.

• Recruit key internal and external stakeholders to actively participate in project development and implementation.

• Determine program purposes and objectives.

STEP 3: Develop and implement a work plan.

STEP 4: Manage initiatives:

• Create guidelines to manage program activities.

• Use technology tools for support and guidance.

• Address and overcome challenges to success.

• Monitor programs and evaluate documented results (make programs accountable).

[Establishing the Context for Employee and Family Involvement in Education]

[Assess and Analyze Employer, Employee, and Community Needs]