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Title: Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner, Lenny Lind, Catherine Toldi, Sarah Fisk, Duane Berger ISBN: 0-86571-347-2 Publisher: New Society Publishers Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Good for more than just participatory decision-making
Comment: I love this book!
Although it's focus is specifically on facilitating participatory decision making, it is an excellent resource for all who facilitate or teach. I particularly like the concrete suggestions on how to navigate a whole-room discussion (stacking, mirroring, paraphrasing, etc.).
However, my favorite part of this book is a beautifully done 3-page section describing common difficult situations - someone is making jokes in the back, your audience is falling asleep, one person won't shut up. The book goes on to detail the ways that facilitators usually deal with these problems, every one of them a power play of some sort, and offers suggestion for BETTER ways to handle the situation. As a trainer myself, I rely heavily on this book when I conduct "train the trainers" sessions.
Especially for those who train around sensitive or controversial issues, this information is invalauable. Thanks for writing this book!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book!
Comment: Although I had never facilitated a meeting before, this book provided me with plenty of good practical ideas and just the right amount of theory to help me successfully facilitate a major brainstorming meeting. I highly recommend this book to anyone who needs to get up to speed quickly on the subject of facilitation.
Rating: 5
Summary: My favorite book on facilitation
Comment: I've been facilitating for several years; I often have people ask for a book recommendation , and this is always the one I name. You will find this book useful if you are facilitating for the first time, or if you are an old pro.
Since you can read the table of contents for this book, I won't repeat it here. My favorites are the model (mentioned in several other reviews) and the different ways to build consensus.
There are other books that have more in depth coverage of each of the topics. What Kaner and his colleagues have done is get to the "gems" of those books for you. It is as if a friend read a bunch of literature on this topic and boiled it all down into one easy-to-use manual. (No, I don't know any of the authors :-))
My only complaint about this book is the format. I find the graphics and the multiple fonts a little difficult to read. I usually hand out the book with the disclaimer "it looks a little hokey, but the content is really solid." If you can move past the graphic design, you'll love this book.
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Title: The Facilitator's Fieldbook: Step-by-Step Procedures * Checklists and Guidelines * Samples and Templates by Thomas Justice, David W.. Jamieson, Tom Justice, David W., Ph.D. Jamieson ISBN: 0814470386 Publisher: AMACOM Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Skilled Facilitator by Roger Schwarz ISBN: 0787947237 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: How to Make Collaboration Work: Powerful Ways to Build Consensus, Solve Problems, and Make Decisions by David Straus, Thomas C. Layton ISBN: 1576751287 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Art of Facilitation: How to Create Group Synergy by Dale Hunter, Anne Bailey, Bill Taylor ISBN: 155561101X Publisher: Fisher Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: How to Make Meetings Work by Michael Doyle ISBN: 0515090484 Publisher: Jove Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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