The purpose of a study was to develop a curriculum for the National 4-H Executive Development Institute. The Extension Committee on Organization and Policy approved five 1-week sessions to be held every 6 months for 2 years. A Delphi panel selected items for a questionnaire used to determine curriculum content. Using a random numbers table, a 50 percent sample of state extension directors, state 4-H leaders, state training leaders, and administrators of land-grant Extension programs was selected for participation in the study. Seventy-four of 91 surveys were returned. The mean responses to these were computed and rank ordered for the top 10 content areas for each of the five sessions of the Institute. These 5 lists of 10 were returned to the sample of 91 persons, with 62 returned. The content areas receiving the highest priority were the following: (1) managing human resources--communications, human relations and team building, staff development, performance appraisals and standards; (2) strategic planning--understanding mission, involving relevant groups, assessing strengths and weaknesses, maximizing benefits; (3) politics, policy, and Extension--the educator's role, creating change, ethics, networking; (4) developing financial resources--securing resources, involving volunteers in development, making and cultivating contacts, evaluating the development program; and (5) futures--having a personal and 4-H futures perspective, future of families and human development, future of volunteerism, techniques for planning. The study provides an overall national feel for executive training and learner needs. The use of these rankings should help to generate a curriculum that is reflective of both the organization and the learner group. (KC)