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Mining Group Gold, Third Edition: How to Cash in on the Collaborative Brain Power of a Team for Innovation and Results Hardcover – Illustrated, September 1, 2010

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Building and maintaining a strong and effective team. If two heads are better than one, how about a team of heads? An effective team can be more innovative than an individual. But how do you get there? While it is true that building and managing a strong, productive team is difficult, Mining Group Gold gives you a set of proven tools, techniques and processes that you must use and practice at all levels of your organization to build and maintain strong, collaborative teams.

Based on 30 years of research and applied work with teams and organizational development by the author, this updated classical guide--now in its highly revised 3rd Edition--shows you how to how to plan, start-up, facilitate, and close-out efficient and effective collaborative meetings. Mining Group Gold features:

An incisive analysis of the staggering cost of meetings in terms of time and money
The tightly interlinked relationship between primary and secondary facilitation
The six major considerations for planning group meetings--starting with the decision about whether to have a meeting in the first place
Blueprints for designing an effective PDORA (Purpose, Desired Outcomes, Roles and Agenda) that produces a collaborative structure
Tactics for dealing with (and defusing when necessary) disruption differences, and confusion to make a diversity of viewpoints a valuable team asset
Ways for channeling participants' emotions into a positive force
Expert guidance on using technologies like virtual collaboration as a catalyst for unlocking your teams' collaborative brain power

Based on practical advice rather than fluff or theory, the Mining Group Gold sytematic approach is the essential guide to building and maintaining strong, collaborative organizational teams.

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"For years, Xerox benefited mightily from Tom's rare blend of strategic thinking and practical advice. Now the world can. I highly recommend this book. --Anne Mulcahy, former Chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation

"Presented in a straightforward, easy to read style, the material in MGG will yield BIG results for your organization." --Eric L. Steenburgh, past President and COO, Ricoh Corporation; former COO, Kodak Corporation

"Mining Group Gold is a common-sense approach that not only delivers the most productive meetings you've ever had, it will improve teamwork and execution from the moment the lessons are put into use." --Ron Cox, CEO, Tailwind Consulting

"Tom Kayser is a true innovator whose ideas save time and energy and increase the productivity of every meeting. His writing style is concise and focused with a spirit of friendliness." --Bruce Heller, Ph.D., author The Prodigal Executive

"Mining Group Gold works! Using MGG tools and concepts in my consulting work has been a key factor in helping clients align teams, accomplish desired outcomes, and improve their bottom-line." --Rod Buchen, CEO, The Buchen Group

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About the Author
Tom Kayser is the President of Kayser Associates, Inc, a Human-Resources consulting firm. He retired from the Xerox Corporation after 30 years of service and now consults for Firestone, among others. He is an expert in organizational behavior and change, group facilitation, team-building design & facilitation, and executive coaching and speaks at many universities and professional organizations.

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Mining Group Gold is an integrated approach for thinking strategically about the facilitation of teams to maximize their collective wisdom in the pursuit of innovative ideas and results. It is a book about facilitation--the manager as a facilitator with the help of all others present as secondary facilitators. Specifically, Mining Group Gold is a set of fundamental--but potent--tools, processes, techniques, and templates that any person, at any organizational level, can readily apply to increase his or her ability to plan and facilitate work sessions that help build a collaborative organization culture.

The procedures covered in this book truly are combat-tested and have withstood the challenge of decades of time. The initial framework was developed in 1984 and has undergone many additions, refinements, and developments since then. Tens of thousands of people in multinational corporations, small businesses, school districts, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and colleges and universities have read the previous editions this work and learned how to become "miners of group gold". I have spent my career as an organization effectiveness professional and facilitator personally using, teaching, and honing what you will be reading about here.

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About the Author
Tom Kayser is the President of Kayser Associates, Inc, a Human-Resources consulting firm. He retired from the Xerox Corporation after 30 years of service creating and pioneering numerous organization effectiveness interventions from the executive v.p. level down to first-level managers. He is an expert in organizational behavior and change, group facilitation, team-building design & facilitation, and executive coaching.

Besides authoring the books Building Team Power and Mining Group Gold, he coauthored Changing Organizational Behavior. Tom is a speaker and the author of articles that have appeared in The California Management Review, Michigan Business Review, Community Banker, LeadershipExcellence, and Leader to Leader.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw Hill; 3rd edition (September 1, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0071740627
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0071740623
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.18 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 0.95 x 9.3 inches

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Top Notch Guide to Effective Meetings! A Must Read

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Mining Group Gold possesses some of the most effective concepts from any book that I have ever read. If all organizations would function using the Mining Group Gold concepts then they would save themselves an enormous amount of time, money and energy. Our organization has been using Mining Group Gold concepts for the last several years and has embraced the "No PDORA, No Meeting" concept. Every meeting has a Purpose, Desired Outcome, clearly stated Roles and an Agenda. Because of this we have more productive, collaborative and effective meetings!!

If you have ever had ineffective meetings, I would strongly encourage you to read Mining Group Gold. The book is easy to read and provides a great guide to determine the necessity of the meeting, who should be in attendance and how to facilitate effectively. I would recommend this book to anyone at any level that participates in meetings. It has been extremely beneficial and I have received nothing but the very best feedback from our employees!

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Mining Group Gold - Third Addition

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What an outstanding update to one of the most effective books I have ever read and used in my 35 years in the business world. I found this book about five years ago. I work in a large corporate environment, and for many years I attended meetings that were not very effective and therefore, without much meaning. It was very seldom that we ever had a meeting that did much more than set a date for the next meeting. Since I started using the Mining Group Gold format, we have accomplished so much more, in much less time than I thought was possible. Not only have I made this format part of two very successful divisions I have been blessed to champion, but it has now been rolled out through-out the organization. For anyone who has struggled having an effective meeting at any company level, I strongly recommend Mining Group Gold. It has been extremely effective in helping align our entire company.

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A. Smith

Good advice, but pretty structured into one specific system.

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Good book if you are looking for a very structured approach to meetings. Though much of it sounds good in theory I think it would be difficult to implement it in many real world situations. And though there are some things you could use on there own, much of it seems to be part of this system, so if you don't do all of it, the things in the book are not as usefull.

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Instructional book

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This is a great instructional book on how to run an effective meeting. I have already started implementing some of the ideas in this and it is already paying dividends. Good meeting facilitation skills are a key for managers and this book really helps define the framework.

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This is a practical "How To" manual that will give instant returns to anyone who applies the easy to understand steps.

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Good Material, But It Feels Somewhat Dated

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 10, 2012

Thomas Kayser provides a very useful organizing scheme and some detailed content on the topic of facilitating meetings. I thought the writing style was engaging and the content was easy to follow. I liked the book very much; if you facilitate meetings, the information presented here will help you.

In terms of criticism, the book feels like it was written in the 1950's. In all fairness to Kayser, I can tell that this edition has been refined and updated. Even so, the tone and style just feel a little outdated.

One other weakness I noted, Kayser doesn't really address the issues of power and status in meetings very thoroughly. That is, he works under the assumption that meeting groups are composed of individuals with roughly equal power and status. For many meetings in the world, equal power and status would be a false assumption.

I recommend the book; it is a worthwhile read. If you facilitate meetings (or ever will), you should consider adding this classic to your library.

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Get the Most from Your Team - Get the Most from Your Meetings

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 27, 2010

Repetitive, non-productive meetings. Preaching meetings. Time wasting meetings. I know you've been there, just as I'd been there over many years. This book changed all that forever, for me as well as for my organization.

Mr. Kayser lays out an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand and, best of all, easy to implement format for the reader to put into practice and turn her or his meetings into fruitful sessions of information sharing, of discussion whenever appropriate, of meaningful idea sharing and of satisfying accomplishment. Best of all, it works - in any "meeting", no matter the size, and no matter if it's business, if it's communuity, or if it's personal.

Some time ago, I read "Mining Group Gold". Skeptical at first, I was nonetheless intrigued by Mr. Kayser's processes that claim to turn meetings that are so often sessions of "reading the mail" or "preaching" into sessions of valuable insight instead. I, along with another individual, had a meeting with 60 people scheduled within a week after I completed the book. With this other individual, I dicussed a new approach - the MGG approach - to our meeting. It was a whiole new world for us, and we weren't entirely confident, but Mr. Kayser encourages the reader to just try the processes explained in the book. He advises that the 1st time may not be smooth & perfect, but it will be better than he would have otherwise had. So we literally ripped up the "agenda" we had, and started new, using templates and principles from "Mining Group Gold". The impact was powerful. During wrap up, meeting participants over & over exclaimed that they'd never been in such a productive meeting, or they never thought we would accomplish what we stated as our "desred outcome" at the start of the meeting, or that "it was the best meeting ever attended".

Read the book and benefit from Mr. Kayser's wealth of experience. Learn how to decide if you even need a meeting. Learn how to get the most "gold nuggets" out of the meeting participants - the willing as well as the not-so-willing. Learn how to assure "buy-in" to your group's ideas and plans of action.

I've been in business for over 30 years. No book has ever had as positive an impact on my business life as has "Mining Group Gold". Trust and practice the "Mining group Gold" fundamentals. You'll be glad you did!

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