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Favorite
Books and Articles
Doyle, Michael; Straus, David. How to Make Meetings Work: The New Interaction Method. Jove Books,
1976. Comments:
For those new to facilitation, this is where to start. It explains key meeting roles, differences between the
facilitator and the person-in-charge, types of meetings and how to
facilitate them, and even how to set up a meeting room. Dyer, William G. Team
Building: Current Issues and New Alternatives Third Edition.
Addison-Wesley, 1995. Comments:
A foundational book about team building.
It explains essential criteria for forming teams, types of teams,
common team developmental challenges and how to work through them. It
explains how to prepare, facilitate and follow through on team building
initiatives. Fisher, Kimball and Mareen. The
Distributed Mind: Achieving High Performance Through the Collective
Intelligence of Knowledge Work Teams.
AMACOM, 1998. Comments: Explains
differences between conventional work and knowledge work and explains how
to launch and sustain knowledge worker teams.
The authors believe that successful knowledge work teams function
as one distributed mind. This
is no easy feat since most knowledge workers identify more strongly with
their professions than with their organizations, and they tend to value
independence over loyalty. This
book explains how to create “distributed-mind” thinking on knowledge
worker teams. Grove Consultants, Effective
Facilitation: Achieving Results with Groups. The Grove Consultants
International, 1994. Comments: An excellent and comprehensive tool kit that
explains principles of facilitation, developmental stages, how to plan and
facilitate meetings to accomplish the purposes of each stage.
Provides creative ways to visualize and diagram the flow of meaning
for each type of purpose. Johnson, Barry. Polarity
Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems. Human
Resource Development Press, 1996. Comments:
Have you ever been asked to help a client figure out how to change
his/her opponents, or how to fix a problem that’s been fixed before but
never seems to stay fixed? Chances
are your client is facing a polarity to manage, not a problem to solve.
It’s a critical distinction.
This “must read” book spells out how to tell the difference
between problems and polarities and explains how to manage polarities so
that you shift from win/lose to win/win results.
Kaner, Sam. Facilitator’s Guide
to Participatory Decision-Making. New Society Publishers, 1996. Comments: An essential book that walks through the 5 stages
of group decision making (Business as usual, Divergent zone, Groan zone,
Convergent zone, and Closure) and explains the facilitator’s key tasks
in guiding a group through each stage.
It also explains how to tell when a decision is “fully cooked”
(it has sufficient support to make it work) and when it’s only
“half-baked” (people express tacit approval but then fail to put
enough “skin in the game” to support it). Kearny, Lynn. The
Facilitator’s Tool Kit: Tools and Techniques for Generating Ideas and
Making Decisions in Groups. Human
Resource Development Press, 1995. Comments: Another
excellent and comprehensive facilitation tool kit. This one provides an extensive variety of meeting processes.
It groups them into process types (starting, expanding, narrowing
and closing) and explains when and how to facilitate each. Reddy, W. Brendan (editor). Team
Building: Blueprints for Productivity and Satisfaction. NTL Institute
for Applied Behavioral Research, 1988. Comments: An
outstanding collection of team building models and “how tos” from
organizational development thought-leaders (Warner Burke, Marvin Weisbord,
Allan Drexler and David Sibbet, Kathie Dannemiller, Eva Schindler-Rainman,
and others). Schwarz, Roger. The
Skilled Facilitator: Practical Wisdom for Developing Effective Groups.
Jossey-Bass, 1994. Comments: A
“must read” that helps a facilitator select an appropriate role for
content expertise that s/he’s expected to contribute, identifies ground
rules for productive group work, and explains when, how and what level to
intervene to “unpack” differences and keep a group on track.
Also watch for the next edition of The
Skilled Facilitator in which Schwarz (a disciple of Chris Argyris)
gives additional guidance on how to shift a group from Model 1 (saving
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Extended BibliographyFacilitation
and Team Development
Adair, John. Effective Teambuilding.
Gower Publishing, 1986. Daniels, William R. Group Power I: A
Manager's Guide to Using Task Force Meetings. University Associates,
1986. Daniels, William R. Group Power II: A Manager's Guide to Conducting Regular Meetings.
University Associates, 1986. Doyle, Michael; Straus, David. How
to Make Meetings Work: The New Interaction Method. Jove Books, 1976. Dyer, William G. Team Building:
Current Issues and New Alternatives Third Edition. Addison-Wesley,
1995. Eggleton, C. Harry and Rice, Judy C. The
Fieldbook of Team Interventions.
HRD Press, 1996. Eitington, Julius. The Winning
Trainer. Second Edition. Gulf
Publishing, 1989. Elledge, Robin
and Phillips, Steven. Team Building
for the Future. Pfeiffer & Co. 1994. Elledge, Robin
and Phillips, Steven. The Team
Building Source Book. Pfeiffer & Co. 1989. Fisher,
Kimball and Mareen. The Distributed
Mind: Achieving High Performance Through the Collective Intelligence of
Knowledge Work Teams. AMACOM,
1998. Fisher,
Kimball and Mareen. “Wellness Practices for Teams” from Leader to Leader, Number 10, Fall ’98, pgs. 17-19. Fisher,
Kimball; Rayner, Steven; Belgaard, William. Tips
for Teams: A Ready Reference for Solving Common Team Problems.
McGraw-Hill, 1995. Grove
Consultants, Effective Facilitation:
Achieving Results with Groups. The Grove Consultants International,
1994. Grove
Consultants, Team Start-up: Creating
Gameplans for Success. The Grove Consultants International, 1995. Grove
Consultants, Team Performance:
Creating and Sustaining Results. The Grove Consultants International,
1995. Hackman, J.
Richard. Groups That Work: And Those
That Don’t. Jossey-Bass, 1990. Howard,
Jennifer M. and Miller, Lawrence M. Team
Management. Miller Howard
Consulting Group, 1994. Hupp, Toni. “Data
Feedback Meetings: Moments of Truth and Success Factors,” Consulting Today, Spring 1999, Volume 3, Issue 1. (For info call 914
591-5522.) Johnson, Barry. Polarity
Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems. Human
Resource Development Press, 1996. Kaner, Sam. Facilitator’s
Guide to Participatory Decision-Making. New Society Publishers, 1996. Katzenback,
Jon R. and Smith, Douglas K. The
Wisdom of Teams. Harvard Business School Press, 1993. Kearny, Lynn.
The Facilitator’s Tool Kit: Tools and Techniques for Generating Ideas
and Making Decisions in Groups. Human
Resource Development Press, 1995. Kelly, Keith P. Team
Decision-Making Techniques: A Practical Guide to Successful Team Outcomes.
Richard Chang Associates, Inc. Publications Division, 1994. Kepner, Charles H.; Tregoe, Benjamin B. The New Rational Manager. Princeton
Research Press, 1981. Mink, Oscar;
Mink, Barbara; and Owen, Keith. Groups
at Work. Educational Technology Publications, 1987 Mohrman, Susan
A. and Cummings, Thomas G. Self-Designing
Organizations. Addison-Wesley,
1989. Mohrman, Susan
A.; Cohen, Susan; Mohrman, Allan M. Designing
Team-Based Organizations. Jossey-Bass,
1995. Mohrman, Susan
A.; Cohen, Susan; Mohrman, Allan M. Designing
and Leading Team-Based Organizations: A Workbook for Organizational
Self-Design. Jossey-Bass,
1997. Parker, Glenn
M. (editor). The Handbook of Best
Practices for Teams, Volume 1. HRD Press, 1996. Parker, Glenn
M. Team Players and Teamwork.
Jossey-Bass, 1990 and 1996. Pfeiffer, J.
William (editor). The Encyclopedia
of Team-Building Activities. Pfeiffer
& Co., 1991. Pfeiffer, J.
William (editor). The Encyclopedia
of Team-Development Activities. Pfeiffer
& Co., 1991. Reddy, W.
Brendan (editor). Team Building:
Blueprints for Productivity and Satisfaction. NTL Institute for
Applied Behavioral Research, 1988. Scholtes,
Peter R. The Team Handbook.
Joiner Associates, 1988. Schwarz,
Roger. The Skilled Facilitator: Practical Wisdom for Developing Effective
Groups. Jossey-Bass, 1994. Senge, Peter;
Roberts, Charlotte; Ross, Richard; Smith, Bryan; Kleiner, Art. The
Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning
Organization. Doubleday, 1994. Shonk, James
H. Working in Teams. James H.
Shonk Associates, 1982. Shonk, James
H. Team-Based Organizations.
Business One Irwin, 1992. Spencer,
Laura. Winning Through Participation. Kendall Hunt Publishing, 1989. Uhlfelder,
Helen (editor). The Advanced Team
Guide. Miller/Howard Consulting Group, 1995. Varney, Glenn
H. Building Productive Teams.
Jossey-Bass, 1989. Weaver, Richard; Farrell, John. Managers as Facilitators: A Practical Guide to Getting Work Done in a Changing Workplace. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1997.
Board
Development
Briand, Michael.
Practical Politics: Five Principles for a Community That Works.
University of Illinois Press, 1999. Bryson, John M. Strategic
Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening
and Sustaining Organizational Achievement.
Jossey-Bass, 1995.
Bryson,
John M. and Alston, Farnum K. Creating
and Implementing Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit
Organizations. Jossey-Bass, 1996. Carver, John. Boards
That Make a Difference: A New Design for Leadership in Nonprofit and
Public Organizations. Jossey-Bass,
1997. Carver, John and Carver, Miriam Mayhew. Reinventing
Your Board: A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing Policy Governance.
Jossey-Bass, 1997. Charan, Ram. Boards
at Work: How Corporate Boards Create Competitive Advantage.
Jossey-Bass, 1998. Doyle, Michael; Straus, David. How to Make Meetings Work: The New Interaction Method. Jove Books,
1976. Emery, Merrelyn and Purser, Ronald. The
Search Conference. Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996. Fisher, Roger
and Ury, William. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In.
Penguin Books, 1981. Flickinger, Theodore Blair. Are
You on Board? A Leadership Guide for Agency Executives and Board Members.
Sagamore Publishing, 1992. Ford, Roger. Boardroom
Basics: A Pocket Guide for Directors. Bear Mountain Books, 1998. Golding,
Charles William and Stewart, Craig W. Inside
the Nonprofit Boardroom: What You Need to Know for Satisfaction and
Success. Documentary Book Publishers, 1999. Hupp, Toni. “Data
Feedback Meetings: Moments of Truth and Success Factors,” Consulting Today, Spring
1999, Volume 3, Issue 1. (For info call 914 591-5522.) Johnson, Barry. Polarity
Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems. Human
Resource Development Press, 1996. Kaner, Sam. Facilitator’s Guide
to Participatory Decision-Making. New Society Publishers, 1996. Saint, Steven and Lawson, James. Rules
for Reaching Consensus: A Modern Approach to Decision Making.
Pfeiffer, 1994. Schwarz, Roger. The
Skilled Facilitator: Practical Wisdom for Developing Effective Groups.
Jossey-Bass, 1994. Spencer, Laura. Winning
Through Participation. Kendall Hunt Publishing, 1989. Stoesz, Edgar and Raber, Chester. Doing
Good Better! How to be an Effective Board Member of a Nonprofit
Organization. Good Books,
1997. Stone, Douglas; Patton, Bruce; and Heen, Sheila. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most. Penguin Books, 1999.
Axelrod, Richard. Terms
of Engagement. Berrett-Koehler,
2000. The Axelrod Group. The
Conference Model. The
Axelrod Group, 1994. Bunker, Barbara and Alban, Billie. Large
Group Interventions. Jossey-Bass
Publishers, 1997. Dannemiller
Tyson Associates. Real-Time
Strategic Change. Dannemiller Tyson Associates, Inc. 1994. Emery, Merrelyn (editor). Participative
Design for Participative Democracy.
Center for Continuing Education, Australian National University,
1993. Emery, Merrelyn and Purser, Ronald. The
Search Conference. Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996. Fisher, Kimball and Mareen. The
Distributed Mind: Achieving High Performance Through the Collective
Intelligence of Knowledge Work Teams.
AMACOM, 1998. Holman, Peggy and Devane, Tom eds. The
Change Handbook: Group Methods for Shaping the Future.
Berrett-Koehler, 1999. Jacobs, Robert. Real-Time
Strategic Change. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1994. Pasmore, William; Fitz, Alan; and Frank, Gary. Fast Cycle Full Participation Work Systems Design.
Pasmore, Fitz & Frank, 1993. Sullivan, Kristine; Giacobassi, Jane; Miner, Louise; Sullivan, Roland;
Symons, Janet; Turner, Tim; Weiser, Kaylene; Wing, Linda; Wrede, Erik.
The Essential Handbook.
Sullivan Publishing Group, 1996. Weisbord, Marvin. Discovering
Common Ground. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1992. Weisbord, Marvin and Janoff, Sandra. Future Search. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1995.
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