Rees Trio: Facilitation Skills How to Lead Work Teams - Softcover

Rees

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0883900564 ISBN 13: 9780883900567

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1991

Synopsis

Improve group results as a successful leader–facilitator

Now you can reap the benefits of a more facilitative, participative style of leadership! How to Lead Work Teams will help you increase cooperation and job satisfaction, raise productivity and quality levels, and gain a more favorable view of your leadership abilities through facilitation. It describes exactly what facilitation is and what it is not and how to do it effectively.

It shows you how to:

• Involve others, build consensus, and get commitment
• Help others solve problems and make decisions
• Use the knowledge and experience of all employees
• Develop and lead a team
• Use group process to run effective team meetings

This book is especially helpful for someone who is new to managing or leading a team. It will also help experienced team leaders refine the role of leader–facilitator. And it will help team members understand how facilitation works and how they can enhance the process.

To read the first chapter from this book, click here.

About this title

About the Author

FRAN REES is the owner of Rees and Associates, a Phoenix–based training and consulting firm. She is an experienced manager and seminar leader and has served extensively as a consultant to companies such as Digital Equipment Corporation and Motorola, Inc. Fran has successfully designed and implemented a number of training programs, workshops, and organizational interventions. She has conducted training on a wide variety of topics, including meeting–facilitation skills, multicultural awareness, consulting skills, and supervision and management. In her work with companies, she has designed and facilitated strategic–planning sessions, has led focus–group and team–building sessions, and has trained trainers.

From the Back Cover

A must for everyone new to team leadership. This best–selling guide describes exactly what facilitation is and is not, and tells you how to do it effectively. Written by work team expert Fran Rees, it recommAnds specific steps leaders can take to build consensus, gain commitment, help others solve problems and make decisions, and leverage the experience of each team member. As useful to the experienced team leaders as it is to the beginner, it presents day–to–day strategies you can use to develop teams that shine.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0883900564
• ISBN 13: 9780883900567
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 162