Getting on Brilliantly: Ideas for Leading and Managing Groups and Teams

Zera, Annette

ISBN 10: 1862012040 / ISBN 13: 9781862012042

Published by Natl Inst of Adult Continuing, 2004

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Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Getting on Brilliantly: Ideas for Leading and Managing Groups and Teams
• Publisher: Natl Inst of Adult Continuing
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1862012040
• ISBN 13: 9781862012042
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

This book is written for any adult educator who has endured rather than enjoyed a meeting, whether a departmental briefing, management meeting or conference. Essentially a workbook, Getting on brilliantly is a collection of recipes, process tools and ideas that help people work well together in groups and meetings. Modelled on a cookery book, this guide offers off-the-shelf techniques for running successful and inclusive meetings. Organised into sections by outcome, it contains over 80 tried-and-tested recipes with clear step-by-step instructions, whether you want to foster creative thinking, generate ideas, make decisions, negotiate differences of opinion and much, much more.Simple exercises help to ensure that everyone is able to participate meaningfully and that the focus and purposes of the meetings are clear to all. A CD-ROM containing all resources from the book is included. You don't need to be an expert or external consultant to use the ideas in this book. It is written for innovative leaders, for managers, for anyone wanting to develop their facilitation skills. Using process tools will have a positive impact on your work, on organisational health, balance and performance.

Synopsis

Getting On Brilliantly is a set of 80 tried and tested recipes that help people get the best out of each other in groups and meetings. It is aimed at managers, team leaders - in fact anyone who goes to meetings - in adult education, colleges and universities and wishes they were a different kind of experience. Getting On Brilliantly provides practical ideas of how to balance power with participation to achieve creative and focused outcomes. For people working in adult education it is a vital resource in the quest to build learning organisations.