Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making
By Sam Kaner
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About this ebook
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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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A great book on facilitating collaborative decision making. It starts with a simple but insightful model on what happens in difficult decision making meetings, and how you can support the different phases the process needs to go through. The discussion continues with an explanation of the role of the facilitator, and some simple general practices that are valuable to have in your toolbox. The rest of the book is a vast catalog of exercises for the different phases of decision making.The format of the whole book is very accessible, and it serves well for both looking up single exercises and reading the whole book page by page.Highly recommended!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is an excellent business book of facilitation and running meetings effectively, and dealing with group think, frustrations, and building solutions that are not easy to discover. This is because tough problems are just that - tough for groups to work through. As the book illustrates, they lead to the groan zone, where many groups give up or capitulate to poor decisions. This book has many wonderful examples and ideas to get people talking and to truly collaborate on solutions.