The discussion book : 50 great ways to get people talking / Stephen Brookfield, Stephen Preskill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brookfield, Stephen, author.

Preskill, Stephen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group facilitation--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Group facilitation.

Group facilitation--Problems, exercises, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Fifty great ways to get people talking

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, California : Jossey-Bass, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Build teams, make better decisions, energize groups, and think out of the box Do you need a resource that you can pull out of your pocket to liven up meetings, trainings, professional development, and teaching? The fifty easily applied techniques in this timely manual spur creativity, stimulate energy, keep groups focused, and increase participation. Whether you're teaching classes, facilitating employee training, leading organizational or community meetings, furthering staff and professional development, guiding town halls, or working with congregations, The Discussion Book is your go-to guide for improving any group process. Each of the concrete techniques and exercises is clearly described with guidance on selection and implementation, as well as advice on which pitfalls to avoid. All of the techniques: Offer new ways to engage people and energize groups Get employees, students, colleagues, constituents, and community members to participate more fully in deliberative decision-making Encourage creativity and openness to new perspectives Increase collaboration and build cohesive teams Keep groups focused on important topics and hard-to-address issues Derived from the authors' decades of experience using these exercises with schools, colleges, corporations, the military, social movements, health care organizations, prisons, unions, non-profits, and elsewhere, The Discussion Book will help you guide discussions that matter.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

User Guide

Acknowledgments

The Authors

Introduction

Chapter 1 Circle of Voices

Purposes

How It Works

Where and When It Works Well

What Users Appreciate

What to Watch Out For

Questions Suited to This Technique

Chapter 2 Chalk Talk

Questions Most Suited to This Technique

Chapter 3 Circular Response

Chapter 4 Newsprint Dialogue

Chapter 5 Today's Meet

To provide a continuous back channel for participants to raise concerns and pose questions

To hear small group reports

To get immediate responses to questions you pose

Chapter 6 Giving Appreciation: The Appreciative Pause-Sticky Note Plaudit

How It Works-Appreciative Pause

How It Works-Sticky Note Plaudit

To provide an audit of what people appreciated

To debrief small-group summaries

Questions That Fit This Protocol

Chapter 7 Rotating Stations

Where and When This Works Well

Chapter 8 Snowballing

What to Watch Out For.

Questions Suited to This Technique

Chapter 9 Conversational Moves

Chapter 10 Critical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ)

Chapter 11 Strategic Questioning

Chapter 12 Open-ended Questions

Chapter 13 Nominating Questions

Chapter 14 If You Could Only Ask One Question

Chapter 15 On-the-Spot Questions and Topics

Chapter 16 What Do You Think?

Chapter 17 Clearness Committee

Chapter 18 Team Modeling

Questions That Fit This Protocol.

Chapter 19 Question Brainstorm

Chapter 20 Narrative Listening and Questioning

Chapter 21 Participation Rubric

Chapter 22 Critical Conversation Protocol

Chapter 23 What Are You Hearing?

Chapter 24 Understanding Check

Chapter 25 Stand Where You Stand

Chapter 26 Think-Pair-Share

Chapter 27 Drawing Discussion

Chapter 28 Musicalizing Discussion

Chapter 29 Structured Silence

Purposes.

How It Works

Chapter 30 Writing Discussion

Chapter 31 Quick Writes

Chapter 32 Cocktail Party

Chapter 33 Bohmian Dialogue

Chapter 34 Methodological Belief

Chapter 35 Justifiable Pressure

Where and When It's Worked Well

Questions That Fit These Protocols

Chapter 36 Hatful of Quotes

When and Where It Works Well

Chapter 37 Quotes to Affirm and Challenge

Chapter 38 Jigsaw

Chapter 39 Titling the Text

Questions That Fit This Protocol

Chapter 40 Critical Debate

Chapter 41 Single Word Sum-Ups

Chapter 42 Setting Ground Rules

Chapter 43 Canvassing for Common Ground

Chapter 44 Dramatizing Discussion

Chapter 45 Deliberative Polling

Chapter 46 Participatory Decision Making

An Abridged Version

Questions that Fit this Protocol

Chapter 47 Mutual Invitation

Chapter 48 The Three-Person Rule

Questions Suited to This Activity

Chapter 49 Conversational Roles

Questions That Suit This Protocol.

Chapter 50 Facilitator Summary.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 19, 2016).

ISBN:

9781119050964

1119050960

9781119050919

111905091X

OCLC:

935255333