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Managing Group Process

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Marvin R. Gottlieb

ISBN: 1-56720-511-9

ISBN-13: 978-1-56720-511-4

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248 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 3/30/2003

List Price: $81.95 (UK Sterling Price: £56.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Description: Aimed at front-line and senior managers faced with ongoing reorganization and an increasingly reluctant workforce, this book examines what it takes to facilitate problem solving, decision-making, and workforce retention and commitment. Gottlieb explains that managers can most effectively facilitate by adopting a hands-on strategy for processes rather than tasks. This book describes the skills and tools needed for leading and managing groups with consistency, commitment, and courage.

Six core skills essential to facilitating group processes are presented:^L ^DBL Initiating^L ^DBL Questioning^L ^DBL Active Listening^L ^DBL Responding^L ^DBL Resolving^L ^DBL Closing/Committing^L Gottlieb discusses the most helpful tools a manager can use for facilitation, including planning, organizing, and directing group processes. Ethical guidelines are provided in conjunction with a discussion of the manager's role in the facilitation process.

Table of Contents:

Figures and Tables
Introduction
Groups as a System
The Group as a System
The Role of Groups in Today's Organizations
Group Leadership Strategies
Types of Meetings
Getting Things Done in Groups
Initiating Group Process
Questioning to Stimulate and Control Discussion
Active Listening
Responding and Resolving
Closing and Getting Commitment
Facilitation Tools
Planning
Conducting
Evaluating Group Performance
Nonverbal Behavior in Groups
The Ethics of Facilitation
Appendix A: Example Agenda for Visioning Meeting
Appendix B: Facilitation Planning Kit
Appendix C: Problem-Solving Rating Scale
Appendix D: IAF Statement of Values and Code of Ethics
Bibliography
Index

About the Author: MARVIN R. GOTTLIEB is President of the Communication Project Inc. His worldwide consulting practice in management training and development has included work for American Express, A. T. Kearney, Bankers Trust, Ernst & Young, Ogilvy & Mather, E.D.S., Instinet, The Prudential, and UBS Paine Webber. An Associate Professor of Communication at Lehman College, City University of New York, for 30 years he has been at the forefront of computer-based distance learning instructional design for proprietary networks and the Internet.

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