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IN MIXED COMPANY has shown a substantial increase in popularity and acclaim with each successive edition. Consequently, in the Fifth Edition, the author preserved the essence of previous versions, and expanded somewhat the central unifying theme that cooperation in small groups is usually superior to competition. In Mixed Company thoroughly addresses the theme of cooperation in small groups. The communication competence model continues to guide discussions of key small group concepts and processes. Systems theory also remains as a key theoretical component of the text and finally, an extensive discussion and analysis of power in small groups continues to separate IN MIXED COMPANY from other textbooks.
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In Mixed Company.......2005-09-05
The book was in slightly worse condition than stated, pages and cover were very bent, but the shipping was very speedy.
Book Description
The Art of Facilitation provides a superb training resource for facilitators and enables group members to understand facilitation and to take on this role themselves. It also provides access to the source of group empowerment and shows how to create group synergy.
Divided into four major components, this book will give you the insight, tools and resources you need to help your group work easily and more effectively together.
Provides an in-depth examination of the art of intervention and cooperative beliefs and values underlying facilitation for creating group synergy.
The toolkit includes facilitative designs for workshops, meetings, projects and evaluations; facilitative processes of being with a group, working with other individuals, keeping sight of the group's vision and goals, empowerment, identity, role playing and more. Plus, a Facilitators' Training Program.
A personal perspective on facilitation through interviews with experienced facilitators.
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Great resource for enhancing facilitation!.......2004-04-16
I found The Art of Facilitation to be an easy-to-read, complete guide in helping to better understand facilitation. I suggest that every beginner facilitator should read this. The authors wrote it specifically outlined and detailed, yet not too complicated. It is a good book to keep close by as a quick reference source. The breakdown of the book allows it to be a wonderful training guide complete with a toolkit to assist your every need of facilitation.
Excellent book on facilitation.......2002-07-04
A very good book on one of the most difficult arts that of drawing together a group through facilitation.
Distinguishing Facilitation Powerfully and Simply.......2000-03-31
The Art of Facilitation is written in simple language. It cuts through the academic tendency to complicate this domain, and in doing so displays the authors mastery of it.
The Art of Facilitation elucidates what it takes to facilitate groups powerfully and provides pathways, tools and processes for this.
This book will provide people new to facilitation with an intellectual analysis of it and old hands clear pathways to doing complex things simply. I use it all the time as a resource in my pratice as a professional facilitator and it is the required text in facilitator training courses which I lead for Zenergy.
I would also recommend Hunter et al's other books: Co-operacy, The Zen of Groups, The Essence of Facilitation.
New Facilitators must read!.......2000-03-28
The Art of Facilitation is a must read for new facilitators or trainers. It is easy to read and offers practical advice and activities for newcomers to the field of facilitation. This is one of the few facilitation books to offer a chapter on facilitating yourself. Not as advanced as other facilitation books (Masterful Facilitation or Facilitator's Guide to Particiapatory Decision Making) but recommend this as part of any facilitator's library of resources.
A great guide for "first time" facilitators!.......1998-09-15
I have found this book a great resource to augment the training of first time facilitators and coaches. It provides many practical exercises, with numerous tips that help to demystify facilitation and increase the first time facilitator's success.
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- Harris Hits Home Run
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Small Group and Team Communication (3rd Edition)
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Journey of Adulthood, The (6th Edition)
ASIN: 0205414915 |
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Praised for its writing style, research base, and range of topics covered, this book develops issues of diversity, ethics, technology and the organizational use of groups and teams within a systems theory framework. Clearly organized and logically presented, this book provides the opportunity for outstanding discussions of critical issues. Harris and Sherblom effectively integrate real world examples, hypothetical situations, social science theories, and scholarly research into a unified discussion of small group and team communication. Extensive examples, case studies, and exercises engage readers and help them to move from theoretical discussions into application and experience of the concepts presented. For anyone interested in the dynamics of small group communication.
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Harris Hits Home Run.......2007-03-26
Author Thomas Harris hits a home run with this very readable textbook about small group communications. Harris effectively covers all of the basic information needed for a solid foundation in the topic. The textbook is user friendly and provides a good jump off point for additional research on the subject. It is an excellent choice for an introductory course on group dynamics.
Favorable Review.......2004-04-13
This book, Small Group and Team Communication, is a descriptive hands-on guide to success in a group setting. The authors intend to highlight the methods by which groups can achieve success, the problems which groups may encounter, and factors which enable groups to complete their tasks. Besides small group and team communication, various other methods of communication are discussed; nonverbal communication, the use of language, diversity in groups, the norms and behaviors of groups, the roles which certain people play in a group, and the characteristics that are necessary for success.
This book is readable and easy to understand; it has scenarios and discussion questions at the end of each chapter which solidify the material for the reader. These activities aid in the comprehension of the text. It may be necessary to have some prior knowledge of communications before reading this book; it would serve as a backdrop for further appreciation of the ideas represented. This book could very easily be used as a textbook for a communication course; it covers a great deal of ground on the topic of communication. The chapters are organized according to facets of group communication, such as decision making and problem solving, listening and feedback, creativity in small groups, diversity, four phases of group development, norms and roles, and conflict management, to name a few.
This book uses a great deal of references and ideas which are discussed in most communication texts. It brings together the various approaches and ideas that are in circulation about group communication and ties them together in a comprehensive and inclusive manner. There is a glossary, index, and it even includes popular testing methods to determine a person's skill and role as a group member.
I would recommend this book to professors for use in the classroom, and also as a resource for a research paper on group communication.
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- The Complete Games Trainers Play
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Games Trainers Play (McGraw-Hill Training Series)
ASIN: 0070466076 |
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From the authors of the most phenomenally successful training series of all time comes a second huge collection of ice-breakers, brain teasers, problem solvers, and session closers that have been chosen to train for the skills today's companies are seeking. Included are games that teach employees how to continuous learning; exercises that enhance motivation, effectiveness, and speed in providing quality customer service; and activities that foster team-building. As in the previous books, each game has been field tested by professionals, most games can be played in under 30 minutes, and all the games can be implemented at little or no cost.
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Helpful resource that could be improved.......2007-05-14
The best thing about The Complete Games Trainers Play is its sheer size. Actually, it isn't nearly as big as some reviews imply. It is really around 1000 pages, not 2000+. And for some reason, a significant percentage of those pages are left blank. But even with that caveat, this is still a sizable resource.
If you are willing to devote 30+ minutes to finding an activity, you are sure to find one (or five) that are ideal for your training event. The fact that individual "games" can be removed from the ring binder is also helpful. This allows you to use the activities without carrying the whole book around, and to easily photocopy sheets for individual participants as some activities require.
However, there are some significant downsides. There is no real way to find appropriate activities without flipping through virtually the entire book. A large number of the activities aren't very good. And, most of the book is in a strange "typewriter" typeface that makes it look like it came from 1972. (Oddly, there are some pages which are randomly sprinkled through the book that use a different, more recent-looking typeface.)
To really upgrade its usefulness, Games . . . would benefit from taking a leap into the computer age. In other words, along with the printed book, a computer CD should be included. This could feature a good, searchable index, which is now lacking. It would also make it possible to print out games, and modify handouts on the computer to your organization's needs.
I've never bought any other resources like this, so I can't say if this is better or worse than others. I can say that in spite of the steep price and the drawbacks, I'm definitely glad I purchased it. It was very useful to me, and will be again in the future. However, there are a few simple steps the authors and publishers could take to greatly improve it.
Trainers Dream.......2006-11-03
This is a great tool of Trainers. Keeping your trainees engaged throughout the training is always a challenge. This tool give creative ways to assess retention of information. The games are great and the administrative forms and suggestions are wonderful.
Lots of games here.......2004-12-08
People love playing games a lot more than listening to lectures; this is indisputable. I didn't like all of the games listed here, but so what. Several I found helpful and intend to use.
Not Impressed.......2003-09-30
Although there is a lot of information packed into this book, I was very unimpressed with the layout and visual design. It looks like it was typed up in 1970. The graphics are ancient and the layout is just one big binder with no cross-referencing or indexing available. To find a useful game, you have to sift through hundreds of pages. It really is a shame, as there are some clever games here to loosen up an audience.
Frankly for this price, I expected something a bit flashier and filled with reproducibles that I would want to copy and hand out. The way it looks now, and with it's unwieldy format, it's going to sit on my shelf.
If I hadn't spilled water on it, I would have sent it back for a refund.
The Complete Games Trainers Play.......2000-05-23
This book was helpful in planning an in-house managment training session. The book is divided into sections making it easy to locate games targeted at specific areas. The book is actually a 3" 3 ring binder. It is a large book, however, it does contain a wealth of information.
Book Description
Get any training session off the ground fast-- or jumpstart one whenever it lags--with the more than 400 proven activities in the bestselling Games Trainers Play series. Their names may range from ``Tombstone Planning'' to ``The `Nobel' Prize Winner,'' but these brilliantly offbeat, unexpected, disarming, fully reproducible games have one serious mission: to coax even the most reluctant groups to talk, laugh, think, and work together. Page after page of fun, easy-to-plan tear-out exercises help you: break the ice and get participants acquainted; shake up outworn habits and perceptions; challenge with thought-provoking brainteasers; test learning and retention; develop communication and listening skills; bring out and involve participant-leaders; win back lethargic, distracted, low-energy groups; encourage creative problem-solving; boost or reinforce a group's self-image; forge cohesive work teams that value group effort; facilitate transfer of training to the job.
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a pretty good buy.......2002-08-19
The games in this book require few props, which is one reason i like it. However there are many numerical and verbal exercises which might not be suitable for all groups. The games are well classified and easy to find in the book. The ones on creative thinking, learning and communication are particularly good. I work with students and have used many of the games with success. This book can be used for any type of audience, overall it is a pretty good buy.
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Learn skills for working in groups
Throughout Life, everyone has opportunity to belong to groups, starting with families, schools, community orgainzations, recreation groups, sports organizations and, finally, in business.
A must-have book to help you become a more effective group member and stimulate your meetings with energy needed for achieving your goals.
You'll learn the skills for participating in groups as an individual member, make groups as a whole more effective, and make group meetings more enjoyable through tapping the synergy available in groups.
Discusses the essence of what makes groups work, then applies the principle of Zen to helping them function better.
The toolkit includes techniques and exercises on generating ideas, defining priorities, creative thinking, expressing feelings, energizing the group, team-building, conflict-resolution, plus, beginning and ending a group.
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Facilitation - Working with People.......2003-09-26
This group puts together a wonderful message of how to manage group meetings with heart. They give clear examples of activities that can be used to defuse conflict, enhance team effectiveness, and methods to monitor yourself and your team for leaving your baggage behind and achieving group synergy. If yours is a consensus-oriented organization, or you'd like to begin using consensus-based decision making, this is a great book. See also their book specifically for meeting facilitation, "The Art of Facilitation".
A hand book for mastering the dynamics of groups........2000-04-03
The Zen of Groups is a handbook for effective group participation. It achieves this through distinguishing the elements of group dynamics.
The Zen of Groups is written in simple language and makes complex and subtile issues clear and easy to understand. This gives both the beginner and advanced facilitator or group participant alike access to understanding and making a useful difference in the dynamics of any group.
The Zen of Groups also has a section of tools and processes which can be applied to assist groups which are stuck or not acheveing their purpose to move forward.
I highly recomend this book to anyone wanting to develop a greater understanding of the the dynamics of groups. I use it all the time as a resource in my practice as a professional facilitator.
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Enhance your communication skills with EFFECTIVE SMALL GROUP AND TEAM COMMUNICATION with InfoTrac®! This communication text emphasizes an interactive approach to teaching small group communication and contains activities that tie into each chapter. Career applications, collaborative learning activities, case studies, and a book specific website that contains tutorial quizzing and essay questions, are just a few of the tools that help you apply what you learn.
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Small Group Com.......2006-03-23
The book was delievered in a fairly timely fashion, however there was alot of water damage to the book that was not mentioned in the sales pitch.
Book Description
Great Meetings!is a user-friendly resource book designed to help meeting leaders, facilitators, and participants understand the important steps for planning and facilitating a great meeting.It is also a useful text for facilitation and meeting management training. Topics include: What is facilitation, getting to know your group, preparing for a meeting, designing a great meeting, problem solving process tools, maximizing your group's potential, promoting positive communication, managing conflict, intervening, and using graphics.
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How to eliminate swamp gas.......2005-01-19
This is a revised and expanded edition of a book which has proven especially helpful to those responsible for planning and conducting meetings but also to those who need to improve their presentation skills in other situations such as when meeting with a supervisor (e.g. to provide a progress report) or with a client (e.g. to make recommendations concerning new initiatives). Kelsey and Plumb are professional meeting facilitators who also train others to become effective facilitators. In this new edition, they share much of the same material found in the first edition (Great Meetings! How to Facilitate Like a Pro) but develop it in much greater depth, in response to extensive feedback which they have obtained since 1997. They respond to questions such as these:
What distinguishes facilitation from meeting organization, process design, process coaching, and organizational development consulting?
How to achieve effective group dynamics?
How best to prepare for a meeting?
How to design a great meeting?
Which three basic process steps are involved?
Which tools are needed to generate and evaluate ideas which result in appropriate decisions?
How to maximize a group's potential?
Which skills are need to promote positive communication?
How best to avoid or resolve conflicts?
When should a facilitator intervene in a group discussion? (When not to?)
How to enhance the group discussion with graphics? How best to integrate them?
Which personal issues are most significant to effective facilitation?
Kelsey and Plumb offer countless suggestions as to What to do, How to do it, What NOT to do, and Why. Those who are relatively inexperienced in terms of meeting facilitation will probably derive the greatest value from this book but I think it can also be of substantial benefit to others in need of fresh perspectives, sharper skills, and additional tools as they prepare to facilitate the next group meeting. When concluding this brief commentary, I presume to share a few thoughts of my own. First, make certain that there is a compelling need for a meeting. Second, include only those who are essential to the success of the meeting. Third, share the agenda in advance. Fourth, identify specific objectives and limit the discussion to achieving them. Finally, make certain when determining next steps that each task has an "owner" and a deadline. Follow up to ensure that everyone follows through. Without direct accountability, nothing will be accomplished.
If you're running a meeting you should get this book.......2004-11-17
This book is 15% theory, and 85% practical tools and techniques. Anybody responsible for facilitating any kind of meeting will find this book to be a treasure trove of helpful ideas, and welcome wisdom. It's light-hearted and easy to read. I'd be comfortable giving it to somebody quite inexperienced in running meetings, but also found much that spoke to this seasoned practitioner.
As the authors note in their introduction, "Meetings take planning and preparation to be successful. Agendas need to be designed carefully ... Managing a meeting takes a host of facilitation skills and a full bag of process tools." This book addresses all these needs in a very direct manner.
Veteran facilitator comments.......2004-10-28
I have used Great Meetings alongside several other facilitation texts for several years in a course on group facilitation in the Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University. Recently a student in our program wrote an enthusiastic review. She has many years of experience as a community facilitator and has demonstrated herself to be highly knowledgeable and competent. With permission of the author, Phoebe Kilby, owner of Sympoetica, phoebek@sympoetica.net, I post it below. This is a review of the 2003 edition of the book. The book has been republished in a 2004 edition.
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Until I read Great Meetings! I thought the The Facilitator¡¦s Fieldbook by Thomas Justice and David W. Jamieson was one of the best books I had read on facilitation. I have used the latter a number of times as a reference to help me solve particular facilitation challenges. Now reading Great Meetings!, I found myself inspired to raise my facilitation to a higher level. Great Meetings! provides insights into facilitation as an art and by doing so I think it inspires more creativity.
On first reading, one might think that this book is just a beginner¡¦s introduction to facilitation. Actually, I have taught graduate courses in urban planning and would use this book enthusiastically if I had the opportunity to teach again. A great deal of most planners¡¦ work involves meeting facilitation, particularly facilitation of citizen task force meetings and open public forums and workshops. Even though I have been facilitating for many years, I still found this book very engaging and can see its potential usefulness. It is not organized like a reference guidebook. Rather it takes the reader through the whole process of planning for and conducting a meeting as well as various facilitation techniques in an easy-to-read style that is better consumed in one reading and taken as a whole like a novel. The writing has a flow that allows a more holistic understanding of facilitation. This is helpful for students and seasoned facilitators alike.
I found the conclusion of the book particularly insightful. Here is where the authors expound on essence of facilitation. Facilitation, while improved by technical skills, is really an art. It is not predictable or formulaic, because people are not so. Each time we work with people in a group, we learn something new about group dynamics. This requires us to respond in creative ways. Great meetings! encourages us to use our creativity.
I also enjoyed thinking about the facilitator as being on a continuum between meeting planner on the one end and therapist on the other. Arnold Mindell in his book Sitting in the Fire approaches facilitation very much like a therapist and in my opinion goes too far into group therapy to offer useful guidance to persons lacking his level of training in psychology. The Facilitator¡¦s Fieldbook is perhaps too formulaic and closer to the meeting planner end of the spectrum. Great Meetings! I think strikes the right balance.
Also, Great Meetings! is the first book I have encountered that describes well the type of facilitator that we planners often are ¡V the facilitator/expert. We are rarely purely facilitators. We facilitate meetings as just one part of our practice, since we are expected to be experts in urban planning and thus to offer advice to our groups on technical planning matters. The authors legitimize this role by articulating the primary reason why this has always seemed acceptable to us. While we have ¡§content expertise,¡¨ we do not have a stake in the outcome of the group¡¦s work. In other words, most of us now accept that we are here to help communities evolve into the type of community the citizens would like. We are not here to tell them what to do, but to help them to discover their goals and to help them find ways to achieve the goals.
Another set of insights I gained from this book that I have not seen in other books on facilitation are ideas about the ethics of facilitation, and particularly, when to say ¡§no.¡¨ Planners should ask themselves the questions on pages 161 and 162 before they agree to facilitate a project. Recently, I turned down a consulting job for one of the reasons the authors cite; it was ¡§a thinly veiled attempt for someone to put forth his own agenda.¡¨ The mayor of a small town called me to ask me to help a steering committee prepare a draft land use plan. He admitted to me he saw no point in this exercise, except that the county was pushing for this as a precursor to annexation. A developer had already given the mayor a plan for the annexation property that the mayor thought was just fine. He clearly was going to use the process as a way to legitimize a decision he had already made with no idea of really consulting the steering committee honestly. I was not comfortable with what appeared to me to be a sham of a process, so I declined. Another consultant took the job, and I had wondered whether I had been smart to give away work that another consultant was glad to have and told me so. This book helped me confirm that I had made the right decision.
I looked for weaknesses in Great Meetings!, but could not find much to report. It may be more difficult to use as a reference guide than The Facilitator¡¦s Handbook, but on the other hand, the chapter headings in the table of contents are clearly written and should be all you need to find the information you seek. Some of the warm-up exercises presented on pages 95 to 102 could appear lame to some groups or appear to trivialize the importance of the meeting if it involves a major conflict. On the other hand, the exercises are creative and fun. Perhaps, they would allow creative solutions to follow.
I found many more strengths than weaknesses. The book provides some good ideas on proper attitudes for facilitators on page 10. These are worth repeating:
X Servant of the group and its process
X Respect and compassion
X Positive
X Flexible
X Non-defensive
X Neutral
Other books may cover most of these, but I have seen few talk about compassion. This is something we all need to strive for, even (or especially) when there are difficult people in the group.
The book¡¦s discussion of group dynamics, while not an academically in depth analysis, is presented in a very accessible, comprehensive and easy-to-use way. For each group dynamic factor, the authors on pages 20-22 provide possible implications and/or interventions for facilitation. We are given insights into group dynamics, and then are provided tips on how to deal with them. This type of practical advice is carried over into the discussion of the various stages of group development: forming, storming, norming, performing. Many facilitation books discuss these stages. This book also provides specific tasks for the facilitator to carry out at each stage.
While I have said that this book is not like reference book, it does offer a few excellent checklists, like the meeting preparation checklist on pages 36-37 and the meeting location and facilities checklists on pages 48 and 49.
I also liked that the authors not only provide clear descriptions of problem solving tools, they tell which ones to use when, that is, when you are:
Defining and analyzing the problem
Visioning the ideal goal or preferred future state
Gathering information
Generating ideas
Clarifying, evaluating and narrowing options, and
Making the final decision
Planners could develop a whole process containing a series of meetings using this outline and the appropriate problem solving methods for each stage in the problem solving process.
Finally, I think the intervention case studies in Chapter 10 are very enlightening. They illustrate well how the various facilitation techniques can be used in plausible settings. These case studies would be particularly good reading for students who do not have much practical experience. Even seasoned facilitators might have an ¡§Ah! Ha!¡¨ moment, when they say, ¡§Oh that¡¦s what I could have done instead.¡¨
So, facilitators, read Great Meetings! one evening and enjoy a practical non-cookbook, non-academic guide to the art of facilitation.
Wonderful book.......2001-06-04
Wonderful book. As an organization consultant and facilitator I give it away to clients; sell it to people I'm training; gave it to my son and son-in-law to help them understand faciltation - and lots of other stuff as well.
It is much richer than just meeting management. Buy it! you'll find it really helpful.
Great Meetings is a Great Resource.......2000-05-12
For the past 22 years, I've been designing and conducting experiential training events. I have also been teaching and coaching others in this work. I have found Great Meetings!to be an invaluable resource. Dee Kelsey and Pam Plumb have managed to present the most important concepts of facilitation in a straight-forward and engaging way. I frequently turn to Great Meetings! as a reference in my work, I recommend it to others, and I give it as a gift to colleagues and friends. Great Meetings! filled a void and I am grateful to the authors for knowing it was neededand for bringing it into being.
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Group communication through the way of council is increasingly becoming the choice of teachers therapists community members business organizations families and couples who want to move from an AUTHORity-led format to one in which education responsibility and leadership are shared by the whole circle. includes a basic introduction to council extensive material about leading councils and chapters on the use of council in various settings. This long awaited TITLE provides the focus on leadership training and the breadth of applications of council and focuses particularly on education community business family and intimate relationships
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