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.
