Groups at work : strategies and structures for professional learning / Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipton, Laura, author.

Wellman, Bruce, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teams in the workplace.

Group facilitation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (120 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, IN : Solution Tree, [2024]

Summary:

"In Groups at Work: Strategies and Structures for Professional Learning, authors Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman provide leaders with the tools to design and prepare productive and efficient group meetings and interactions. The seventy-eight strategies included in the book are organized into six functions reflecting the major activities that engage productive groups and lead to purposeful process design: (1) activating, (2) assessing, goal setting, and planning, (3) dialogue and discussion, (4) generating ideas, (5) summarizing and synthesizing, and (6) text and informational processing. When groups own their processes, actions, and outcomes, and share an understanding of procedures and protocols, they become more cooperative, coordinated, and skillful"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

About the Authors

About This Book

Strategies for Activating

Strategies for Assessing, Goal Setting and Planning

Strategies for Dialogue and Discussion

Strategies for Generating Ideas

Strategies for Summarizing and Sythesizing

Strategies for Text and Information Processing

Structuring Group Work

Strategies for Forming Groups

References and Resources

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781962188401

196218840X

OCLC:

1428262239