Management skills, upgrading

This vision of the treatment system in a new NDCS involves multiservice treatment facUities that can provide for the diverse needs of the public-sector treatment population. This means that a variety of levels of service would be available (long- and short-term residential, outpatient, and intensive outpatient), a multidisciplinary professional staff (e.g., addiction counselors, medical personnel, mental health professionals) would be provided, and a seamless method to provide ancillary services such as vocational training, financial management, and self-care skills would be in place. Services such as child care would be provided to remove barriers to treatment. There must be provisions for regular follow-up contact with treatment professionals and/or attendance at some kind of support group. AU of this requires an infusion of resources to upgrade the public-sector treatment system. 

The first involves educational reform. At the national level, we are participating actively on the National Board for Professional Teacher Certification. At the state level, we have various initiatives in localities where Du Pont has a significant presence. The most advanced of these is work done to upgrade management and leadership skills of school administrators and superintendents in the Texas school system. This is now being extended to several other states through the Department of Education s "Leadership in Educational Administration Development" (LEAD) program. 

It is management s responsibility to recruit and screen new drivers, monitor driver qualifications and safety infractions, and provide training to upgrade drivers skills and knowledge. 

Businesses around the world spend billions every year on better products and processes. Products and services along with the supply chains that deliver them are on the move." They are constantly changing in new and unexpected ways. Most of the investments made in what we broadly refer to as "product development" or "operations" have at least some, and more often a lot, of impact on the supply chain. These expenditures include product research and development, systems upgrades, capital investments in brick, mortar, and equipment, and even enhancement of employee skills. Managers are faced with a myriad of choices asking, "What should I do next "... 

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