Product Description

Sponsored by the International Association of Facilitators, The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation offers the need-to-know basics in the field brought together by fifty leading practitioners and scholars. This indispensable resource includes successful strategies and methods, foundations, and resources for anyone who works with groups. The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation provides an overview of the field for new and aspiring practitioners and a reliable reference for experienced group facilitators, including chapters on
*Creating positive ongoing client relationships
*Building trust and improving communications
*Facilitating group brainstorming sessions
*Drawing out the best in people
*Developing a collaborative environment
*Designing and facilitating dialogue
*Managing conflicting agendas
*Working with multicultural groups
*Using improvisation
*Understanding virtual meetings
*Facilitating team start-up
*Assessing group decision processes
*Building expertise in facilitation
*Reviewing core facilitation competencies
*Modeling positive professional attitudes

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #130165 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-08
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 664 pages

Synopsis
Sponsored by the International Association of Facilitators, The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation offers the need-to-know basics in the field brought together by fifty leading practitioners and scholars. This indispensable resource includes successful strategies and methods, foundations, and resources for anyone who works with groups. The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation provides an overview of the field for new and aspiring practitioners and a reliable reference for experienced group facilitators, including chapters on * Creating positive ongoing client relationships * Building trust and improving communications * Facilitating group brainstorming sessions * Drawing out the best in people * Developing a collaborative environment * Designing and facilitating dialogue * Managing conflicting agendas * Working with multicultural groups * Using improvisation * Understanding virtual meetings * Facilitating team start-up * Assessing group decision processes Building expertise in facilitation * Reviewing core facilitation competencies * Modeling positive professional attitudes

From the Inside Flap
Sponsored by the International Association of Facilitators, The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation offers the need-to-know basics in the field brought together by fifty leading practitioners and scholars. This indispensable resource includes successful strategies and methods, foundations, and resources for anyone who works with groups.
The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation provides an overview of the field for new and aspiring practitioners and a reliable reference for experienced group facilitators, including chapters on

*Creating positive ongoing client relationships

*Building trust and improving communications

*Facilitating group brainstorming sessions

*Drawing out the best in people

*Developing a collaborative environment

*Designing and facilitating dialogue

*Managing conflicting agendas

*Working with multicultural groups

*Using improvisation

*Understanding virtual meetings

*Facilitating team start-up

*Assessing group decision processes

*Building expertise in facilitation

*Reviewing core facilitation competencies

*Modeling positive professional attitudes
This wide-ranging collection also features a CD-ROM with the complete collection of articles published in the first five issues of Group Facilitation: A Research and Applications Journal.

From the Back Cover
The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation includes a distinguished group of contributors:
Kristin J. Arnold
Lynda Lieberman Baker
Nadine Bell
Terry D. Bergdall
Michael Beyerlein
Jeff Bracken
Lori Bradley
Joe Chilberg
Mary Eggers
John Epps
Cameron Fraser
Kathy Free
Izzy Gesell
Dennis S. Gouran
Randy Y. Hirokawa
Christine Hogan
Marsha Hughes-Rease
Dale Hunter
Sylvia James
Sandra Janoff
Jon Jenkins
Sam Kaner
Miki Kashtan
Lisa Kimball
Reinhard Kuchenm?ller
Roland Loup
Larry Meeker
Toshihiko Nakui
Fred Niziol
Susan Nurre
Paul B. Paulus
Steven N. Pyser
Maria Bego?a Rodas-Meeker
John Rohrbaugh
Sandy Schuman
Roger Schwarz
Beverly Seiford
David Sibbet
Trish Silber
Marianne Stifel
David Straus
Glyn Thomas
Stephen Thorpe
James P. Troxel
Patricia Tuecke
David Wayne
Nedra Weinstein
Marvin Weisbord
Michael Wilkinson
Paul T.P. Wong

Customer Reviews

Group Facilitation Reference Book
The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation is the best resource available on group facilitation. It is by far the broadest work on the newly developing field of facilitation. It is not something that you sit down and read through. I have found it can be used in two ways. One is to open the book to the table of contents and find an interesting chapter title. Read the chapter. The second is when an issue comes up like evaluating a program turn to the chapter that Terry Bergdalh wrote and see what he has to say about the topic. It is a reference book for anyone who has to deal with group decision-making, planning and team building processes. It is a must have for anyone interested in group dynamics and group facilitation.