The skilled facilitator a comprehensive resource for consultants, facilitators, managers, trainers, and coaches

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Schwarz, Roger M., 1956- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, New Jersey : Jossey-Bass 2017.
Edición:Third edition
Colección:THEi Wiley ebooks.
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009849085606719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Skilled Facilitator: A Comprehensive Resource for Consultants, Facilitators, Coaches, and Trainers
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Third Edition
  • What The Skilled Facilitator Is About
  • Who This Book Is For
  • How the Book Is Organized
  • Part One: The Foundation
  • Part Two: Diagnosing and Intervening with Groups
  • Part Three: Agreeing to Work Together
  • Part Four: Working with Technology
  • Features of the Book
  • What's Different in the Third Edition
  • Part One: The Foundation
  • Chapter One: The Skilled Facilitator Approach
  • The Need for Group Facilitation
  • Most People Who Need to Facilitate Aren't Facilitators
  • Is This Book for You?
  • Should I Be a Facilitator, Consultant, Coach, or Trainer to a Group?
  • What Should I Pay Attention to to Help a Group?
  • What Do I Say When the Group Isn't Working Effectively?
  • How Do I Develop an Agreement to Work with a Group?
  • What Do I Do When a Group Is Difficult to Deal With?
  • The Skilled Facilitator Approach
  • It Answers the Questions: What Do I Do? How Do I Do It? Why Do I Do It That Way?
  • A Systems Approach
  • All the Parts Fit Together
  • It's the Same Approach for You and Group Members
  • You Can Use the Approach Almost Anywhere
  • Experiencing the Skilled Facilitator Approach
  • Making the Skilled Facilitator Approach Your Own
  • Summary
  • Chapter Two: The Facilitator and Other Facilitative Roles
  • Choosing a Facilitative Role
  • The Facilitator Role
  • The Facilitative Consultant Role
  • The Facilitative Coach Role
  • The Facilitative Trainer Role
  • The Facilitative Mediator Role
  • The Facilitative Leader Role
  • Basic and Developmental Types of Roles
  • Serving in Multiple Facilitative Roles
  • When It's Appropriate to Leave the Role of Facilitator
  • Moving to the Facilitative Mediator Role
  • Moving to the Facilitative Consultant Role.
  • The Facilitator as Evaluator
  • The Group Is Your Client
  • What Is Your Responsibility for the Group's Results?
  • Evaluating Your Performance Independent of the Group's Results
  • Colluding with the Group
  • Dealing with Collusion
  • Summary
  • Chapter Three: How You Think Is How You Facilitate: How Unilateral Control Undermines Your Ability to Help Groups
  • How You Think: Your Mindset as an Operating System
  • Two Mindsets: Unilateral Control and Mutual Learning
  • How You Think Is Not How You Think You Think
  • The CIO Team Survey Feedback Case
  • Barbara's Contribution to the Team's Problems
  • The Unilateral Control Approach
  • Values of the Unilateral Control Mindset
  • Win, Don't Lose
  • Be Right
  • Minimize Expression of Negative Feelings
  • Act Rational
  • Assumptions of the Unilateral Control Mindset
  • I Understand the Situation
  • Those Who Disagree Don't
  • I Am Right
  • Those Who Disagree Are Wrong
  • My Motives Are Pure
  • Those Who Disagree Have Questionable Motives
  • My Feelings and Behaviors Are Justified
  • I Am Not Contributing to the Problem
  • Unilateral Control Behaviors
  • Results of Unilateral Control
  • Lackluster Performance
  • Strained Working Relationships
  • Less Individual Well-Being
  • Give-Up-Control Approach
  • How Unilateral Control Reinforces Itself
  • How Did We Learn Unilateral Control?
  • Moving from Unilateral Control to Mutual Learning
  • Summary
  • Chapter Four: Facilitating with the Mutual Learning Approach
  • The Mutual Learning Approach
  • Values of the Mutual Learning Mindset
  • Transparency and Curiosity: Creating a Common Pool of Understanding
  • Informed Choice and Accountability: For Better Decisions and Commitment
  • Compassion
  • Assumptions of the Mutual Learning Mindset
  • I Have Information
  • So Do Others
  • Each of Us Sees Things Others Don't
  • Differences Are Opportunities for Learning.
  • People May Disagree with Me and Still Have Pure Motives
  • I May Be Contributing to the Problem
  • Mutual Learning Behaviors
  • Results of Mutual Learning
  • Better Team Performance
  • Better Working Relationships
  • Greater Individual Well-Being
  • The Reinforcing Cycles of Mutual Learning
  • Are There Times When Unilateral Control Is the Better Approach?
  • Summary
  • Chapter Five: Eight Behaviors for Mutual Learning
  • Using the Eight Behaviors
  • Three Purposes for the Behaviors
  • Behavior 1: State Views and Ask Genuine Questions
  • What Stating Your View and Asking a Genuine Question Accomplishes
  • What to Be Curious About
  • Behavior 2: Share All Relevant Information
  • What's Relevant Information?
  • Share Information Consistent with Your Facilitative Role
  • Don't Carry Others' Water
  • Share Information That Doesn't Support Your View
  • Share Your Feelings
  • Behavior 3: Use Specific Examples and Agree on What Important Words Mean
  • Say What You Mean to Say
  • Name Names
  • Use Specific Examples
  • Behavior 4: Explain Reasoning and Intent
  • Be Transparent about Your Strategy
  • Take the Transparency Test
  • Behavior 5: Focus on Interests, Not Positions
  • Behavior 6: Test Assumptions and Inferences
  • How You Make Meaning: The Ladder of Inference
  • Your Inferences Become Data
  • Lower Your Ladder: Make Your Inference Testable
  • Decide Whether to Test Your New Inference
  • Testing Your Inference: The Mutual Learning Cycle
  • The Mutual Learning Cycle Uses Most of the Eight Behaviors
  • Using the Mutual Learning Cycle to Diagnose and Intervene in Groups
  • Behavior 7: Jointly Design Next Steps
  • Beginning Meetings: Purpose before Process before Content
  • Agreeing on Whether Someone Is Off Track
  • Designing Ways to Test Differences about the Facts
  • Degrees of Joint Design
  • Behavior 8: Discuss Undiscussable Issues.
  • The Problem with Not Discussing Undiscussable Issues
  • How to Raise Your Undiscussable Issue
  • Learning to Use the Behaviors
  • Summary
  • Chapter Six: Designing and Developing Effective Groups
  • How a Team Effectiveness Model Helps You and the Teams and Groups You Work With
  • The Difference between Teams and Groups-and Why It Matters
  • What Makes a Team?
  • Why Interdependence Matters So Much
  • Teams Aren't Better than Groups: It's a Matter of Fit
  • A Better Question: For What Tasks Do We Need to Be a Team?
  • How Interdependence Affects Your Work with Teams and Groups
  • The Team Effectiveness Model
  • What Makes a Good Team Effectiveness Model
  • The Team Effectiveness Model: The Big Picture
  • What's Your Mindset as You Design?
  • Team Structure, Process, and Context
  • Team Structure
  • Clear Mission and Shared Vision
  • Motivating Task
  • Appropriate Membership
  • Clearly Defined Roles, Including Leadership
  • Effective Team Culture
  • Team Norms, Including Mutual Learning Behaviors
  • Reasonable Workload
  • Team Process
  • Effective Problem Solving
  • Appropriate Decision Making
  • Productive Conflict Management
  • Balanced Communication
  • Clear Boundary Management
  • Team Context
  • Clear Organizational Mission and a Shared Vision
  • A Supportive Organizational Culture
  • Rewards Consistent with Objectives
  • Information, Including Feedback
  • Resources
  • Training and Consultation
  • Physical Environment
  • Interorganizational Teams and Groups
  • Helping Design or Redesign a Team or Group
  • Helping Design a New Team or Group
  • Helping Redesign an Existing Team or Group
  • Summary
  • Part Two: Diagnosing and Intervening with Groups
  • Chapter Seven: Diagnosing and Intervening with Groups
  • What You Need to Diagnose
  • What You Need to Intervene
  • The Mutual Learning Cycle
  • Step 1: Observe Behavior
  • Step 2: Make Meaning.
  • Step 3: Choose Whether, How, and Why to Intervene
  • Step 4: Describe the Behavior
  • Step 5: Test Your Inference
  • Step 6: Jointly Design Next Steps
  • Sharing Your Reasoning and Intent
  • Summary
  • Chapter Eight: How to Diagnose Groups
  • Step 1: Observe Behavior
  • Remember Behavior as Behavior
  • Use Diagnostic Models to Decide What Behaviors to Look For
  • Step 2: Make Meaning
  • Making Meaning
  • Making Process and Content Inferences
  • Recognizing Our Inferences as Inferences
  • Moving Back and Forth between Observations and Inferences
  • Making Low-Level and High-Level Inferences
  • Step 3: Choose Whether, Why, and How to Intervene
  • Deciding Whether to Intervene
  • Principles for Choosing among Possible Interventions
  • Principles for Deciding with Whom to Intervene
  • Deciding What Type of Intervention to Make
  • Challenges in Diagnosing Behavior and How to Manage Them
  • Observing and Making Meaning at Different Levels Simultaneously
  • Diagnosing at the Speed of Conversation
  • Needing to Attend Constantly to the Group
  • Being Comfortable with Ambiguity
  • Reducing Cognitive Bias
  • Being Drawn in by the Content
  • Being Limited by Your Diagnostic Frames
  • Summary
  • Chapter Nine: How to Intervene with Groups
  • Key Elements of the Intervention Steps
  • The Intervention Steps Parallel the Diagnostic Steps
  • Mutual Learning Behaviors and Mindset Are Embedded in the Intervention Steps
  • Using the Mutual Learning Cycle to Intervene: An Example
  • Step 4: Test Observations
  • Begin by Addressing Members by Name
  • Share Your Observations without Adding Meaning
  • Consider Explaining the Intervention You Are About to Make
  • Be Prepared for Members to Disagree with You
  • Step 5: Test Meaning
  • Be Prepared for Group Members to Disagree with You
  • Don't State Your Inference as a Question.
  • Consider Explaining Why You Are Testing This Inference.