The Skilled Facilitator: Practical Wisdom for Developing Effective Groups (Jossey Bass Public Administration Series) - Hardcover

Schwarz, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555426387 ISBN 13: 9781555426385

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1994

Synopsis

Get what it takes to develop great groups

An outstanding guide for those working to help groups reach their full potential. Writing for consultants, peer facilitators and managers alike, the author offers a comprehensive reference that pinpoints the skills needed to produce highly creative groups.

This guidebook will show you how to:

• Be a facilitative leader
• Improve the overall effectiveness of an organization
• Increase employee commitment
• Sharpen cooperative and problem-solving skills
• Improve company flexibility
• Intervene effectively with groups ... and more!

Easy to follow and chock full of practical advice, this work can enable anyone to handle groups effectively.

Take a Skilled Facilitator Intensive Workshop! These 5 day events, sponsored by The Center for the Study of Work Teams and presented by Roger Schwarz & Associates, feature Roger Schwarz. Workshops are offered three times a year. For information contact the Center for the Study of Work Teams at (940) 565-3096 or visit their web site at www.workteams.unt.edu.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

An outstanding guide for those working to help groups reach their full potential. Writing for consultants, peer facilitators and managers, the authors offer a comprehensive reference that pinpoints the skills needed to produce groups with high degrees of creativity and problem-solving capabilities. A groundbreaking section on facilitative leadership shows how expertly managed groups can improve the overall effectiveness of an organization, increase employee commitment, and improve company flexibility. Easy to follow and chock full of practical advice, this is the one book no one responsible for group development should be caught without.

From the Back Cover:

For those working to help groups reach their creative and problem solving potential--including consultants, peer facilitators, and managers--this comprehensive reference identifies valuable skills and offers practical advice. In a groundbreaking section on facilitative leadership, the author shows how skilled management of groups can improve the overall effectiveness of an organization, increase employee commitment, sharped cooperative and problem solving skills, and improve company flexibility.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1555426387
• ISBN 13: 9781555426385
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336