The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation: Best Practices from the Leading Organization in Facilitation |
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| Sandor P. Schuman |
| February 2005, Jossey-Bass Publishers, Hardcover, 720 pages, ISBN 078797160X
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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
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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 Kuchenmuller
Roland Loup
Larry Meeker
Toshihiko Nakui
Fred Niziol
Susan Nurre
Paul B. Paulus
Steven N. Pyser
Maria Begona 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
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| Sandy Schuman is president of Executive Decision
Services LLC, a consulting firm in Albany, New York, specializing
in strategic decision making, collaborative problem solving, consensus
building, public involvement and information management. He is also
a research associate at the Center for Policy Research, University
at Albany, SUNY. Schuman is the author of numerous articles and
book chapters and speaks widely at conferences on facilitation,
decision-making and conflict resolution, collaborative systems.
He moderates the Electronic Discussion on Group Facilitation, and
is the editor of Group Facilitation: A Research and Applications
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