Facilitation Skills - Helping Groups Make Decisions [Paperback]

Gregory B. Putz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1998

A comprehensive guidebook outlining the six steps to group decision making. The book includes practical advice on setting up the meeting room, use of flipcharts, building consensus, and handling conflict. Important information on do's and don 'ts and frequently asked questions are included in the text. Special emphasis is placed on the neutral role of the facilitator. An easy to follow format, this book is an essential tool for any community leader, as well as business manager, supervisor, or team leader.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Every business and community leader must have a copy of this book if they expect to adequately manage groups. With the increased emphasis on team empowerment in the work place and public involvement in the community, tomorrow's groups will pl ay a critical element in decision making. This book tells you how to do it...how to lead a group to closure, step by step.

From the Author

Today's leaders and managers must understand the dynamics of groups if they want to succeed in business. Too often, supervisors expect their work groups to arrive at decisions and actions without any roadmap or process showing them how to do it! Most times, groups arrive at solutions only because of luck! This book shows a simple, six-step method for leading any team from group chaos to having a list of specific, clear action items. Any leader, manager, or supervisor can do it... this book i s clearly written and simple to follow!

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Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Deep Space Technology Co (August 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966445600
• ISBN-13: 978-0966445602
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,187,756 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Facilitating Book for My Company, November 30, 2000

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Michael D. Regan - See all my reviews

This review is from: Facilitation Skills - Helping Groups Make Decisions (Paperback)

I own a consulting firm and I needed a good book for my consultants to study to become good facilitators. I ordered and reviewed every facilitation book available on Amazon and sent them all back except this one. This book is well-written and organized, and hits all the important points needed to become a solid facilitator quickly.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Facilitation Template, September 5, 2000

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Patti Heisler "Ptrshe" (Fargo, ND USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Facilitation Skills - Helping Groups Make Decisions (Paperback)

I would recommend that this book be read by every project team leader as it does a good job clarifying roles of teams, its members and facilitation basics (right down to which color markers to use on a flipchart.)It's a good, nuts and bolts template for first-time facilitators. I'm an experienced technology trainer (6 years). This book was a quick-read and worked well for me when I needed to work with a task force troubleshooting interdepartmental communications. Book needs some proofreading - found lots of grammatical errors (distracting to me). Case study examples mainly focused on "what went wrong" but did drive some good points. Not an in-depth facilitation resource but worth it's price.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Was this book ever proofread?, June 19, 2002

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Brian Lane "Hikernut" (Sedona, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Facilitation Skills - Helping Groups Make Decisions (Paperback)

A very simple book, it does give some insight into facilitation, but I found it very irritating that there were typos on nearly every page! When words like 'expect' are used instead of 'except' the whole meaning has changed. And a whole page of this small guide devoted to how to turn and tear pages from a flipchart? This is a very low level primer on this subject. As a student of cooperative leadership, this book did little to enhance my knowledge of the process of facilitation.