Leading Groups to Solutions: A Practical Guide for Facilitators and Team Members

By Steven J. Stowell

Book Overview

Leading Groups to Solutions addresses the collaborative process of building consensus, creating synergy, and harnessing collective energy to create innovative solutions. The practical ideas guide... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972462775
• ISBN13: 9780972462778
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
• Length: 181 Pages

Customer Reviews

Time and Money Well Spent

This book is a great toolbox for anyone managing or leading groups or teams. It is not about getting up and presenting to a group. It is more about getting up and tapping into a group's creativity, ideas, and expertise and helps to solve problems, execute tasks, or implement solutions. Just because you're leading a group discussion doesn't mean you're automatically the designated leader. I was put into a temporary project team where we were required to solve a major problem. For many of the individuals it was the first time we had met. Putting this information to use definitely helped us arrive at our solution more quickly.

Good for Teams, Leaders, Facilitators, and Public Speakers

This book is an all around good and useable book. It is something teams, leaders, facilitators, and even public speakers might want to consider who deal with people in a guiding capacity. Chapter 21 - Facilitating the Group From Hell - helps in dealing with those difficult and frustrating situations we can all relate to.

Getting Results with Groups and Teams

A excellent book for anyone who is leading, facilitating, or coordinating group or team meetings. This will help in facilitating groups to solve problems, collaborate together, plan, organize, and make decisions. Each chapter has a quick reference at the end which makes it easy when refering back to the tools and skills sets provided in the book. It is very user friendly. For those looking to improve teams as opposed to facilitating groups, you should try CMOE's other book The Team Approach: With Teamwork Anything Is Possible

A very usable book!

This is a great book for anyone facilitating team meetings. The book is more of a tool kit on how to draw out ideas and creative energy to build team consensus. It is not a book about teams, but offers a process on how to facilitate and help lead teams to a collective group solution. Could also be a good resource for anyone wanting help with general meeting management.