How to Lead Work Teams: Facilitation Skills, Second Edition
- 2h 55m
- Fran Rees
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2001
How to Lead Work Teams: Facilitation Skills, Second Edition is a completely revised and updated resource that shows you how to develop the skills that are key for becoming a successful team leader. Step-by-step, author Fran Rees shows you how to develop the powerful facilitation skills that will help make you an outstanding team leader, coach, motivator, and facilitator. This hands-on book is filled with proven tips, tools, and techniques that can be learned today and put into action tomorrow.
Using Rees’s innovative L.E.A.D. model you can become a team leader who
- Leads with a clear purpose. Articulate your teams’ goals and purpose and encourage open and thoughtful discussion, including brainstorming, active listening—and disagreement.
- Empowers to participate. Encourage team members to communicate in ways that enhance teamwork and achieve results.
- Aims for consensus. Reach consensus by taking the time for questioning, listening, clarifying, augmenting, summarizing, and documenting.
- Directs the process. Lead the process of communication both inside and outside your team.
About the Author
Fran Rees is the owner of Rees & Associates, a Phoenix-based training and consulting firm celebrating its fifteenth year in business. Since the publication of the first edition of How to Lead Work Teams: Facilitation Skills in 1991, Fran has increasingly focused her work on team development, team leadership, and facilitator training, and consults to a variety of organizations. She designs and facilitates meetings for both public and private organizations and has conducted numerous management development, workforce diversity, mentoring, and train-the-trainer programs.
In this Book
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How to Lead Work Teams—Facilitation Skills, Second Edition
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Introduction
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The New Workplace
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From Teams to Teamwork
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How to L.E.A.D.
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From Controlling to Facilitating
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Facilitation Ignites Team Spirit
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The New Team Leader
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Facilitating One on One
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Facilitating Communication of Distance Teams
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Leading a Participative Team Meeting
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Planning and Focusing the Meeting
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Encouraging Participation
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Recording People’s Ideas
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Managing Group Process
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Reaching Consensus and Closure
