Books about Facilitating from Amazon.com

Over 450 databased studies and years of field testing attest to the effectiveness of the Microskills model in INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING AND COUNSELING: FACILITATING CLIENT DEVELOPMENT IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY! Available with an interactive CD-ROM (which can be packaged with the text), this hallmark text enables students of many backgrounds to master basic skills in a step-by-step fashion, thus rapidly empowering them to conduct a full interview using listening skills. Along the way, they are challenged to re-evaluate their current behaviors and perceptions, thus gaining valuable insight about themselves, their strengths, and the areas where they can develop further. By the time they finish reading the text, they will have the ability to adapt their skills to meet both individual and multicultural uniqueness, conduct interviews using five different theoretical approaches, and be well on their way to developing a personalized style and theory of interviewing and counseling that matches their own aptitudes and affinities..
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Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture provides a framework, a sense-making tool, a set of systematic steps, and a methodology for helping managers and their organizations carefully analyze and alter their fundamental culture. Authors, Cameron and Quinn focus on the methods and mechanisms that are available to help managers and change agents transform the most fundamental elements of their organizations. The authors also provide instruments to help individuals guide the change process at the most basic level—culture. Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture offers a systematic strategy for internal or external change agents to facilitate foundational change that in turn makes it possible to support and supplement other kinds of change initiatives..
Price: $28.99 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Textbook offers a well-established three-stage model of helping, including an explanation and demonstration of the different skills used at each stage. Addresses ethical conduct and presents numerous practice exercises and labs. Pays particular attention to multicultural issues and offers new methods for testing the training model. For undergraduate students..
Price: $32.50 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Facilitating with Ease! is an updated version of the best-selling resource that offers easy-to-follow instructions, techniques, and hands-on tools that team leaders, consultants, supervisors, and managers have used to learn the basics of facilitation Complete with worksheets on CD-ROM that can be customized to fit your personal needs, it's a complete facilitation workshop in a take-home format. Facilitating with Ease! shows you how to run productive meetings with skill and authority and includes the information needed to train others in your organization to become confident facilitators as well. The book is filled with dozens of exercises, surveys, and checklists that can be used to transform anyone into an effective facilitator..
Price: $36.17 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Thoughtful and rich with advice, The Mentor's Guide explores the critical process of mentoring and presents practical tools for facilitating the experience from beginning to end. Now managers, teachers, and leaders from any career, professional, or educational setting can successfully navigate the learning journey by using the hands-on worksheets and exercises in this unique resource.

Readers will learn how to:

• Assess their readiness to become a mentor
• Establish the relationship
• Set appropriate goals
• Monitor progress and achievement
• Avoid common pitfalls
• Bring the relationship to a natural conclusion

"The greatest gift one can give, other than love, is to help another learn! Every leader who cares about nurturing talent and facilitating excellence will find this book a joy to read and a jewel to share."
--Chip R. Bell, author of Managers as Mentors.
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In this groundbreaking book, organizational effectiveness experts Edward Lawler and Christopher Worley show how organizations can be “built to change” so they can last and succeed in today’s global economy. Instead of striving to create a highly reliable Swiss watch that consistently produces the same behavior, they argue organizations need to be designed in ways that stimulate and facilitate change. Built to Change focuses on identifying practices and designs that organizations can adopt so that they are able to change. As Lawler and Worley point out, organizations that foster continuous change

• Are closely connected to their environments
• Reward experimentation
• Learn about new practices and technologies
• Commit to continuously improving performance
• Seek temporary competitive advantages

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Price: $15.98 [Notify me when price goes down.]

How to structure, facilitate, and implement the process

Strategic planning is a critical part of running a business, but when you get a team of people together to plan, it can often become a confused exercise in grand visions without a clear process for establishing workable goals. This book is unique in providing both guidance for the actual content of strategic plans and techniques for how to plan in a team context. Readers will discover how to:

• structure the process so it custom fits their company needs

• effectively facilitate the process (keep meetings on track, train others in planning skills, document decisions made at meetings, present and communicate the plan)

• use teams and teamwork smoothly and productively to create a far-reaching plan—and then to implement it

Features detailed guidelines for each step, dozens of flowcharts, and three self-contained "facilitator’s guides" to follow..
Price: $20.89 [Notify me when price goes down.]

1986 Winner of the Imogene Okes Award and the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education

The first book to receive both the Imogene Okes Award and the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education presented by the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education. This book analyzes current approaches to adult learning and presents a comprehensive review of the research on how adults learn.

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Price: $29.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]

"A Guide to Co-Teachingis a must-have. All members of the school community will find something useful in this book, and what they find will guarantee that student learning is improved."
Douglas Fisher, Associate Professor of Teacher Education
San Diego State University

"The book provides a road map for how special and general education teachers can work to effectively meet the needs of students with and without disabilities while working in classrooms that model cooperation and respect."
Mary Falvey, Professor of Special Education
California State University, Los Angeles

Collaboration tactics that boost student learning and teacher satisfaction!

Teachers across the country are abandoning the isolation of the past and are turning to their colleagues as a gratifying way to meet the demands of today’s rigorous standards. This comprehensive guide highlights the benefits and challenges of co-teaching as a way to address the No Child Left Behind requirement that all students have access to highly qualified teachers, as well as IDEA’s requirement that students with disabilities have access to the general education curriculum.
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In A Guide to Co-Teaching, you are guided through the planning, implementation, and reflection phases with the help of these practical features:

• Tips on why some co-teaching arrangements work where others fail
• Straightforward self-assessments to make sure your goals are being met
• Chapters dedicated to each of the different approaches to co-teaching: Supportive, Parallel, Complementary, and Team Teaching
• Quotes and advice from teachers and students who have been successful in co-teaching experiences
• Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about implementing co-teaching, and its effects on teachers, students, and their families
• Ideas for empowering you and your partners to thrive as co-teachers
• Discussion of how administrators can support teachers to move toward co-teaching

Masterfully written by authors who practice the co-teaching they preach, this manual provides vignettes from elementary, middle, and high school classrooms that illustrate how real teachers have answered the tough questions about the sharing of responsibility, the organization of students, and the division of responsibility for teaching, learning, and assessing..
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