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Good question.
I cited a review article here because, as with other members of the Big Five, conscientiousness is a broad and complicated thing. What the review article allows you to do is see what happens when conscientiousness is factored into its subcomponents, for example impulse control and dependability.
I'm afraid I no longer have the book with me, so I can't point you to the individual studies, but I remember it reviewing strategies for improving one or two of the subcomponents of conscientiousness. I think it would help if you can find the book in which that article appears at a local library.
I see. I guess I'll keep an eye out for citations on developing Conscientiousness. It correlates with so much! (http://www.gwern.net/About#fn23)
I don't think I would say "not hard to improve", but unfortunately I'm reacting from my memory of that review article.
Slowly going through your PDFs I've downloaded, I ran into http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Eisenberger-Learned-industriousness.pdf It calls it 'industriousness' rather than Conscientiousness, but it certainly sounds like training Conscientiousness to me.
Have you found more material on ways to increase conscientiousness since writing the comment above?
No. Drugs still seem like the best option.