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Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, 3rd Edition
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Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, 3rd Edition

by Sam Kaner
April 2014
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
8h 12m
English
Jossey-Bass
Audiobook available

Overview

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 The Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making guides readers through the struggle and the satisfaction of putting participatory values into practice, helping them to fulfill 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 reorganization 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.

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    Publisher Resources

    ISBN: 9781118404959