The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation: Best Practices from the Leading Organization in Facilitation, Sandor Schuman, Editor
The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation offers the need-to-know basics in the field brought together by 50 leading practitioners and scholars. This indispensable resource includes successful strategies and methods, foundations, and resources for anyone who works with groups
- Presents wide-ranging views of group facilitation and its practice
- Thirty-three chapters written by fifty authors in seven countries
- Includes the competencies, values, and ethics of group facilitation
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.
Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2005
Hardcover, 664 pages
ISBN: 0-7879-7160-X
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