Extreme Facilitation

Author : Suzanne Ghais
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extreme Facilitation written by Suzanne Ghais and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2005-03-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extreme Facilitation picks up where other books on the topic leave off to present a revolutionary method that helps large, unwieldy, adversarial, and apparently dysfunctional groups achieve consensus and reach objectives on divisive and contentious issues no matter how long the group has been struggling. Throughout the book, expert facilitator Suzanne Ghais shows how extreme facilitation - which puts on the emphasis on creativity, flexibility, and customization - can change how group members interact with one another and how participants view the issues even in the most challenging and exceptionally difficult situations. Extreme Facilitation covers the preparatory phases of the process, including assessment, convening, and contracting. Ghais also offers vital information on process design and tips for handling situations that many facilitators find particularly challenging.

Author : Mike Parkes
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1783062738
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Business Facilitation written by Mike Parkes and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facilitation is the art of helping others to do things for themselves. It is fundamental to the engagement challenges within the current business environment. In this revolutionary book, the first to examine the link between business facilitation and employee engagement, Mike Parkes provides practical techniques to achieve success in leading a team through using this unique method. The facilitator is external to the team, independent and objective. Business facilitation is a line manager’s role in engaging the team to take greater responsibility for the problems, issues and solutions in the workplace. Although the manager may seek to be objective, they undoubtedly have a vested interest in the outcome. This is the route to encouraging more positive engagement and empowerment, and as a result far greater business results. Drawing on real work situations, Parkes offers practical frameworks, examples and exercises that enable the reader to readily apply the ideas back in the workplace. He combines this with a thorough understanding of business facilitation and the skill of employee engagement, resulting in original material that has not only been tried, tested and proven to work but is also recognised as cutting edge by practitioners in the field. Business Facilitation captures the author’s 25 years of experience in working through challenging situations with some of the UK’s most prestigious companies including Marks and Spencer, Tesco, Royal and Sun Alliance, Deloitte, Gap, B&Q and VW Group (Volkswagen). "I have run over 500 courses using these techniques, training thousands of line managers and this book supports that training with the model that I have developed." Parkes comments on the inspiration behind Business Facilitation

Author : Simon A. Levin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691156042
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Princeton Guide to Ecology written by Simon A. Levin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Princeton Guide to Ecology is a concise, authoritative one-volume reference to the field's major subjects and key concepts. Edited by eminent ecologist Simon Levin, with contributions from an international team of leading ecologists, the book contains more than ninety clear, accurate, and up-to-date articles on the most important topics within seven major areas: autecology, population ecology, communities and ecosystems, landscapes and the biosphere, conservation biology, ecosystem services, and biosphere management. Complete with more than 200 illustrations (including sixteen pages in color), a glossary of key terms, a chronology of milestones in the field, suggestions for further reading on each topic, and an index, this is an essential volume for undergraduate and graduate students, research ecologists, scientists in related fields, policymakers, and anyone else with a serious interest in ecology. Explains key topics in one concise and authoritative volume Features more than ninety articles written by an international team of leading ecologists Contains more than 200 illustrations, including sixteen pages in color Includes glossary, chronology, suggestions for further reading, and index Covers autecology, population ecology, communities and ecosystems, landscapes and the biosphere, conservation biology, ecosystem services, and biosphere management

Author : Jenny Rogers
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335240984
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book EBOOK: Facilitating Groups written by Jenny Rogers and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2010-05-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every manager, every coach, every HR professional, every trainer, every team leader - anyone who needs to get the best out of a group needs to know how to facilitate. Facilitation bypasses coercion, teaching or chairing. It's about how to read a group, how to challenge appropriately and how to name the apparently unnameable. It's about being able to design events which perfectly match what the group needs and then to run such events with aplomb. Facilitating Groups, now fully revised in this new edition, is written by a facilitator with 30 years of experience and cuts to the heart of the practical skills that any facilitator needs.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Author : Sandy Schuman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470594128
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handbook for Working with Difficult Groups written by Sandy Schuman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WE'VE ALL EXPERIENCED the challenges associated with working with groups, but The Handbook for Working with Difficult Groups turns the idea of "difficult groups" on its head. Rather than view groups as inherently difficult, it looks at the factors that make working with groups difficult. Individual chapters focus on challenges such as involving dissenters, building external perspectives, reducing complaining, adapting to cultural differences, incorporating diversity, facilitating inclusion, working virtually, resolving identity-based conflict, transforming unproductive behavior patterns, preventing workplace harassment, and strengthening accountability. The book first provides a framework for thinking systemically about the many and varied ways in which working with a group can be difficult. Building on that framework, the contributors each address three basic issues: How the group is difficult a description of a real group and the observable phenomena that reflect the group's difficulty. Why the group is difficult an exploration of the underlying causes of the difficulty. What you can do about it what you can do as a group facilitator, leader, or member to help the group.

Author : S. I. Keethaponcalan
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498553397
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conflict Resolution written by S. I. Keethaponcalan and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the subject of third party intervention, one of the core subject matters of the fields of conflict resolution and peace studies. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the dimensions, issues, and methods of third party intervention, and approaches the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective. It delves into third party definitions, typologies, actors, rationale, motives, decision dimensions, and roles. This book provides in-depth analysis of such third party methods as mediation, arbitration, hybrid procedures, problem solving workshops, and peacekeeping, uniquely bringing all major topics of third party intervention into one text. The last two chapters deal with timing of intervention and ripe moments, and ethics. Students of conflict resolution and peace studies will benefit from this book.

Author : Gwen Van Servellen
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0763755575
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communication Skills for the Health Care Professional: Concepts, Practice, and Evidence written by Gwen Van Servellen and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2009-10-07 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first text of its kind to address the connection between communication practices and quality patient care outcomes provides future and practicing patient caregivers basic communication knowledge and skills.

Author : Kelsey, Sigrid
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1599048647
Total Pages : 1130 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication written by Kelsey, Sigrid and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-05-31 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology has changed communication drastically in recent years, facilitating the speed and ease of communicating, and also redefining and shaping linguistics, etiquette, and social communication norms. The Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication provides academics and practitioners with an authoritative collection of research on the implications and social effects computers have had on communication. With 69 chapters of innovative research contributed by over 90 of the world's leading experts in computer mediated communication, the Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication is a must-have addition to every library collection.

Author : Donna J. Reid
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807773182
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dilemmas in Educational Leadership written by Donna J. Reid and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, educational consultant and group coach Donna Reid argues that popular vehicles for improving school cultures and student achievement, such as professional learning communities and critical friends groups, too often fail because the participants are unaware or unwilling to make the required changes for successful collaboration and change. To assist facilitators and group leaders, the author presents narrative cases that examine the experiences of teacher leaders, principals, consultants, and parents as they negotiate the difficulties of reluctant team members, hostile colleagues, maintaining group interest, sharing responsibility, using technology, and cultural competency. Each case includes questions for reflection that can be used individually or in small groups to improve facilitation skills. Book Features: Addresses the roles of the facilitator and participants. Focuses on the complex contexts in which educators must work. Illustrates a range of challenges with possible ways to manage them. Offers strategies for building sustainable relationships, such as how to include new colleagues and work with difficult people. Discusses common tensions, such as sharing responsibility, respecting confidentiality, and developing cultural competence. “With its engaging and informative mix of case descriptions, discussions following the cases, and questions for the reader, this book is a welcome change from other books on facilitation and coaching. As I read, I imagined that someone had been looking over my shoulder as I coached my first CFG, and as I have supported others doing the same over the years. A must-read for all those engaging in their first few years of facilitating collaborative teacher teams!” —Gene Thompson-Grove, educational consultant and founding board member, School Reform Initiative “This book is a must-read for anyone in the practice of collaborative coaching and facilitation. By tapping into the power of story, the author provides a reflective space that allows the reader to consider coaching moves, as well as experience and reflect on common potential pitfalls in coaching or facilitating a group.” —P. Tim Martindell, president, Texas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts, Coordinator Secondary ELA, Fort Bend Independent School District