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    The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking
    The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking
    The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking
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    The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking

    By Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley
    Release dateDec 29, 2015
    ISBN9781119050964

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      Good activities for getting people to interact.
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      The authors provide easy-to-follow instructions to fifty exercises designed to promote discussion in small and large groups. The directions for each technique describe the method’s purpose, how to do it, where and when to use it, what participants appreciate about the exercise, possible pitfalls, and the type of questions for which the technique is best suited. There are techniques to initiate discussions in new groups, promote good questioning, foster active listening, conduct discussions without talking, draw people out of their comfort zone, democratize participation, build group cohesion, facilitate decision making, carry on text-based discussions, and more. Teachers, trainers, managers, and anyone having to facilitate group discussions will find this a useful manual.

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