Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, May 8, 1994                   TAG: 9405070011
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: F-1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: CAMILLE WRIGHT MILLER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

SHE'S GOT THE ANSWERS

"Work helps frame our lives, determines how much pleasure we receive, and even accords us some measure of our self-identity and self esteem," said Camille Wright Miller, president of Virginia Education Group, a training organization. "If work is going well, other parts of our lives benefit."

The Roanoke Times & World-News today begins a weekly question-and-answer feature in which Miller will deal with the issues affecting Western Virginia workers and workplaces.

Her academic training, in sociology, includes undergraduate and master's degrees from Middle Tennessee State University and a doctorate from the University of Virginia. She was assistant dean for adult studies at Hollins College from 1989 to 1991 and the college's assistant dean for academic affairs from 1991 to 1993. She has been an instructor at the University of Virginia's Roanoke regional center and at Washington & Lee University. In 1993, she founded Virginia Education Group in Lexington.

Miller conducts seminars and special programs for area companies dealing with mentoring, goal setting, communications, public speaking and personality assessments. Her speciality of organizational behavior focuses on the systems and processes of organizations.

Her new column, Working It Out, will run every Sunday in the Business section. It will address questions from Roanoke Times & World-News readers. Questions answered in today's initial column are those Miller was asked by previous students and participants in programs she has led. Readers should sent questions to her in care of the Roanoke Times & World-News Business News Department, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010.

"I see the column as a substitute mentor program," said Miller who began her career by fielding questions from friends and former students who had work-related problems.

"I firmly believe that we each need mentors to help us get the most from our work environment. Mentors help guide us to career successes we might not otherwise achieve.

"However, not everyone has a mentor. Working It Out allows me to contact readers with answers from my own experiences, from my reading and observations, and from other experts in the field. An active reader will be able to lay claim to dozens of the best menytors in the Roanoke region.

"I want to hear what readers think is a problem. The first step to resolving a problem is laying the variables out in from of someone else, whop can help search for a solution. I can be that someone else."