The only resource that focuses on facilitation skills as a key to effective team leadership. This book shows how to use the power of facilitation to get work done through others, and features many tools, techniques, and skills that can be applied immediately.
Book Details:
- Author: Fran Rees
- ISBN: 9780787956912
- Year Published: 2001
- Pages: 240
- BISAC: BUS071000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Leadership
About the Book and Topic:
The only resource that focuses on facilitation skills as a key to effective team leadership. This book shows how to use the power of facilitation to get work done through others, and features many tools, techniques, and skills that can be applied immediately.
This book helps team leaders use effective communication and group process techniques to empower their teams to achieve greater accoomplishments. A clear understanding of the concept of facilitation, why and when to use it, and how to facilitate both one-on-one and in groups is also presented. In its clear and straightforward style, the book advises team leaders on how to facilitate in today’s global,electronic environment including, how to maintain a sense of connection within their team.
Communicate more effectively and productively with individual team members and with teams as a whole. * Structure team member participation for maximum contribution, consensus building, buy-in, and support * Manage group process, both face-to-face and in situations where the team is scattered geographically. * Spot team problems and identify ways to alleviate them. * Conduct focused, productive meetings. * Engage the team members to share responsibility for team goals.
About the Author
FRAN REES is the owner of Rees & Associates, a Phoenix-based training and consulting firm. In the year 2001, her consulting firm celebrates her fifteenth year in business. Since the publication of the first edition of How to Lead Work Teams: Facilitation Skills in 1991, Fran has increasingly focused her work on team development, team leadership, and facilitator training, and consults to a variety of organizations. She designs and facilitates meetings for both public and private organizations and has conducted numerous management development, workforce diversity, mentoring, and train-the-trainer programs.