From Managing to Empowering: An Action Guide to Developing Winning Facilitation Skills - Softcover

Parry, Scott B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0527762326 ISBN 13: 9780527762322

Publisher: Amer Assn for Clinical Chemistry, 1994

Synopsis

For managers, supervisors, trainers, consultants - anyone who wants to make empowerment a reality - this book is a must.

Filled with a wealth of checklists, guidelines, assessments, and hands-on exercises, this interactive guide explores the role of the facilitator and presents techniques for assessing and improving your own facilitation skills.

From Managing to Empowering enables you to:

Assess your own response style and readiness for the paradigm shift from parent-child to adult-adult relationships in the workplace.
Use 36 skills and techniques for sharpening your discussion leadership ability.
Sharpen your skills in phrasing questions, listening analytically, and resolving conflict.
Identify the 12 key responsibilities of a group facilitator and the tools for accomplishing each.
Take inventory of 35 key issues affecting the success of your work team efforts.
Learn how to deal effectively with disruptive group members.
Follow a six-step problem-solving process in diagnosing performance deficiencies.
Prepare a decision matrix when faced with complex decisions.
Evaluate your proficiency on the 20 "process skills" for facilitators.

About this title

About the Author

Scott B. Parry is chairman of Training House, Inc. and has conducted workshops for educators and trainers worldwide under sponsorship of UNESCO, the Ford Foundation, and private corporations. His consulting clients have included AT&T, IBM, Ford, and Coca-Cola. Parry is the author of four books and numerous articles that have appeared in training and management development journals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amer Assn for Clinical Chemistry
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0527762326
• ISBN 13: 9780527762322
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184