The Skilled Facilitator - 3rd Edition by Roger M Schwarz (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Help groups deliver results with an updated approach to facilitation and consulting</b> <p><i>The Skilled Facilitator: A Comprehensive Resource for Consultants, Facilitators, Trainers, and Coaches, Third Edition</i> is a fundamental resource for consultants, facilitators, coaches, trainers, and anyone who helps groups realize their creative and problem-solving potential. This new edition includes updated content based on the latest research and revised models of group effectiveness and mutual learning. Roger M. Schwarz shows how to use the Skilled Facilitator approach to: boost improvement processes such as Six Sigma and Lean, create a psychologically safe learning environment for training, and help coaches work with teams and individuals in real-time. This edition features a new chapter that explains how to facilitate virtual teams using conferencing technology. <p>Facilitation skills are essential in many kinds of work, and if you are looking to bring your skills up to date it is critical that you rely on trusted information like the knowledge offered in this go-to reference. <ul> <li>Develop the facilitative mentality and skills that enable you to help groups get better results, even in the most challenging situations</li> <li>Help groups achieve greater performances, stronger working relationships, and higher levels of individual well-being</li> <li>Quickly develop productive and trusting work relationships with the groups you help</li> <li>Establish the functions of your facilitative role</li> <li>Implement a research-based, systematic approach to diagnose and intervene in groups and improve their performance and results</li> </ul> <p><i>The Skilled Facilitator</i> is a practical resource for corporate, government, non-profit, and educational practitioners, as well as graduate students in group-focused programs. This edition contains up-to-date material, based on recent studies, to help facilitators move beyond arbitrary tactics to utilize cutting edge, research-based strategies that improve group processes, relationships, mindsets, and outcomes.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p><b>PRAISE FOR THE SKILLED FACILITATOR</b> <p>"This book replaces about a dozen that I have on my shelf. It has become <i>the</i> book on facilitation that aspiring and accomplished consultants should read." <br/><b> --Geoffrey Bellman, </b> author of <i>The Consultant's Calling</i> and <i>Extraordinary Groups</i> <p>"There is no better guide for how to intervene effectively in organizational groups than Roger Schwarz. His incredibly useful third edition of<i> The Skilled Facilitator</i> adds a framework that makes clear distinctions among roles such as coach, consultant, and facilitator, and makes cogent recommendations for each role. At the heart and soul of Schwarz's wisdom is the notion of mindset--that we must first consider and alter our own thinking before we can work productively with the complexity of group dynamics." <br/><b> --Amy C. Edmondson, </b> Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School and author of <i>Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate and Compete in the Knowledge Economy</i> <p>"<i>The Skilled Facilitator</i> is essential reading for every group facilitator, consultant, and team coach to be grounded in the values, assumptions, principles and practice of group facilitation. In the third edition, Roger Schwarz continues to address these matters thoughtfully, coherently, and comprehensively so readers can help groups create the results they need." <br/><b> --Sandor P. Schuman, </b> editor of <i>The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation: Best Practices from the Leading Organization in Facilitation</i> <p>"The heart of Roger Schwarz's approach to facilitation is mutual learning between the facilitator and group and between all members of the group. As he points out so aptly, mutual learning is a different mindset than unilateral control and when under stress it is common for facilitators to default to control. This book provides a launching point for the deliberate practice required to facilitate high performing work groups." <br/><b> --Jeffrey Liker, </b> Professor, University of Michigan and author of <i>The Toyota Way</i> <p>"I'm deeply grateful to Roger Schwarz, the modern master of facilitation theory and practice, for giving us a sleeker, tighter, and more modern version of his magnum opus. For many years, my Wharton students have reaped the powerful rewards of his earlier edition's careful instruction; it's changed their minds and their lives. With this seamlessly coherent and crucially substantial upgrade to what was already the field's gold standard, future students of collective action seeking a rigorous, highly practical method have a yet wiser guide." <br/><b> --Stew Friedman, </b> author of <i>Total Leadership</i> and founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>ROGER SCHWARZ</b> is an organizational psychologist and president and CEO of Roger Schwarz & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm that helps teams create fundamental change to get better results. He facilitates leadership teams and teaches, consults, coaches, and speaks on facilitation, leadership, and developing effective teams. He is the author of <i>Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams</i> and <i>The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook, </i> and blogs for <i>Harvard Business Review.</i> Contact him at www.schwarzassociates.com or find him on Twitter @LeadSmarter.
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