Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making

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By Sam Kaner

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Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner focuses on collaborative decision-making techniques that inspire collective creativity and problem-solving in groups. The book offers practical methods for engaging participants, managing group dynamics, and achieving consensus. By empowering facilitators with a range of tools and strategies, it aims to enhance productivity and inclusivity in business environments.
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This guide might appeal to you if you're interested in exploring collaborative approaches to group decision-making in the workplace. It's an excellent resource for understanding how to cultivate inclusive dialogue and harness diverse perspectives to achieve consensus and effective outcomes. Perfect for facilitators, team leaders, and anyone keen on mastering the skills of participatory leadership, its techniques can be valuable in enhancing organisational productivity and teamwork.

The Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, Third Edition presents valuable tools and skills for facilitators, consultants and anyone who works with groups. The book is comprehensive in scope and contains an accessible format. Every key facilitation concept is illustrated and explained in a few pages.

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Unleash the transformative power of face-to-face groups.

The third edition of this ground-breaking book continues to advance its mission to support groups to do their best thinking. It demonstrates that meetings can be much more than merely an occasion for solving a problem or creating a plan. Every well-facilitated meeting is also an opportunity to stretch and develop the perspectives of the individual members, thereby building the strength and capacity of the group as a whole.

This fully updated edition of Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making guides readers through the struggle and the satisfaction of putting participatory values into practice, helping them to fulfil the promise of effective group decision-making. With previous editions already embraced by business and community leaders and consulting professionals around the world, this new book is even more insightful and easy to use.

New for this edition:

60 pages of brand-new skills and tools
Many new case examples
Major expansion and reorganisation of the advanced sections of the book
New chapter: Teaching A Group About Group Dynamics
Doubled in size: Classic Facilitator Challenges
Substantially improved: Designing Realistic Agendas – now three chapters, with wise, insightful answers to the most vexing questions about meeting design

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118404959

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 June 2014

Country: United States

Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.

Edition: 3rd edition

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 213.0mm

Height: 272.0mm

Weight: 975g

Pages: 432

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About the Author

Sam Kaner, Ph.D.?is the founder of the consulting firm Community At Work, and he has been its Executive Director since 1986.?He ?is regarded as one of the nation's leading experts on?facilitation. Over the past 20 years he has repeatedly been?a?featured speaker at the annual conferences of several professional associations, including the National Organization Development Network and the International Association of Facilitators. His corporate clients have included?Hewlett-Packard, Price Waterhouse, Visa International, Charles Schwab and Company, and many other Fortune 500 companies. His public sector clients have included the California Supreme Court, the March of Dimes, Special Olympics, Annie E Casey Foundation and many schools, community-based organizations and government agencies.

Lenny Lind?is president of CoVision, Inc. He is the co-developer of Council, a groupware system designed for facilitators.

Catherine Toldi,?M.A. is a freelance collaboration specialist.

Sarah Fisk, PhD is a clinical psychologist, a seasoned facilitator, and a designer of participatory processes. She has been a featured speaker of the annual conferences of the National Organization Development Network and the International Association of Facilitators as well as an adjunct professor at California Institute of Integral Studies. Sarah's corporate clients have included Hewlett-Packard, Agilent, Visa International, Mercer Human Resource Consulting, Inc. and many other Fortune 500 businesses. Her public sector clients have included the March of Dimes, the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, EarthIsland Institute, City of Edmonton, Alberta, and numerous educational and government agencies and community based organizations. Sarah has been a senior consultant with Community At Work since 1996.

Duane Berger, M.A. is co-founder of the Resource Center for Consensus Decision-Making.