Participant Readiness
Imagine the following scenario: Maggie is identified as a good candidate for a developmental intervention. One day her supervisor drops by her office and asks her to fill out a number of assessment instruments. Maggie dutifully answers all the questions, which takes her approximately six hours, and mails the material to a testing agency in a prestamped envelope. Soon after, she is told to block off an afternoon during which she will receive feedback. Maggie hears nothing more about it until she finds herself sitting in a room for four hours with someone who, it turns out, happens to know a lot about her. How do you think Maggie feels? Probably surprised; definitely confused.
A concerted effort is necessary to reduce the ...
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