Contents | 1. Essence | 2. Frameworks | 3. Skills | 4. Process ideas | 5. Resources

5. Resources

Some useful manuals and books are:

Leadership Manual

The Jewish Student Leadership Manual(table of contents)is a collection of articles about leadership. They were nearly all written by Joby Blume, experienced leader, trainer, and student of organizational leadership. Some of the articles include:

• Running a Discussion - suitable for beginners and experienced leaders, how to prepare for and run an effective discussion.
• Tuckman Theory or 'Storming Norming' is a model that explains how groups form and function socially. The theory is particularly for leaders concerned with ensuring that a group runs well, that members are content, and that conflict is minimised.
• Body Language - body language tells the educator who is listening, who isn't, and when to ignore.
• Listening Skills - sets out how leaders can know when people are, or aren't, listening well.
• Facilitation Skills looks at the theory behind the practice of running a discussion.
• Conflict Resolution - the article explains how to prevent and put a stop to conflict, as well as when conflict might be productive.

Facilitation Skills: Harnessing the Power of Diverse Groups to Improve Program Performance - Social Impact. Social impact notes (contents)

The Facilitation Skills Training Kit, Leslie Bendaly, McGraw Hill

The kit has two Parts

Part 1 Group Process Facilitation skills has 13 modules including:

• Introduction to the Basic Responsibilities of a Facilitator
• Techniques for Generating, Collecting and Organising Ideas
• The Facilitation Map
• Dealing with difficult behaviours
• Decision making tools
• Creating dialogue
• Dealing with conflict

Part 2 Team Facilitation Skills has seven modules including:

• Starting up a new team
• Identifying and managing critical success factors
• Identifying core values
• developing a mission statement

Facilitation Made Easy, Practical Tips to Improve Meetings and Workshops, Esther Cameron, Kogan Page Second edition 2001.

This is a practical introduction to the skills needed when running a facilitated workshop. There are 10 chapters

1. Introducing Facilitation
2. The Psychology of groups
3. Planning a facilitated workshop
4. Running a facilitated workshop
5. The workshop environment
6. What to do afterwards
7. Other issues surrounding the use of workshops
8. Word case studies
9. Special case workshops
10. The facilitator's complete checklist

Some other useful books are:

Team Roles at Work, R. Meredith Belbin, Butterworth Heinemann, 1993

Type Talk at Work, Otto Kroeger with Janer M. Thuesen, Tilden Press Book, 1992

Managing Change at Work. Leading People through Organisational Transitions, Scott, Cynthia D & Jaffe, Dennis T ,1995, Crisp Publications (A Fifty Minute Manager Series Book)

Gifts differing Understanding Personality Type, Isabel Briggs Myers with Peter B Myers 1980, Davies-Black Publishing 1995

Facilitation Skills for Team Leaders, Donald Hacket and Charles L Martin, 1993, Crisp Publications (A Fifty Minute Manager Series Book)