Build teams, make better decisions, energize groups, and think out of the box
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 Bookis your go-to guide for improving any group process.
Each of the concrete techniques and exercises in The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking (Jossey-Bass, a Wiley brand; Pub Date: February 2016; ISBN: 978-1-119-04971-5; $24.95; Paper)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.
The Discussion Book is now available for purchase online and at retailers nationwide in both print and all e-book formats. For a full list of retailers, visit www.wiley.com/buy/9781119049715
Stephen D. Brookfield is the John Ireland Endowed Chair at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For more than 40 years, he has taught in England, Canada, Australia, and the United States. A six-time winner of the Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education, he is the author of numerous books on teaching, The Skillful Teacher, Third Edition (2015), Teaching for Critical Thinking (2011), and Discussion as a Way of Teaching, 2nd Edition (2005), all from Jossey-Bass.
Stephen Preskill is professor emeritus at Wagner College in Staten Island, New York. He has coauthored three books, including Learning as a Way of Leading (Jossey-Bass, 2009) and Discussion as a Way of Teaching, 2nd Edition (Jossey-Bass, 2005), and written numerous articles, book reviews, and op-ed pieces.
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