How To Lead Work Teams: Facilitation Skills, 2nd Edition

How To Lead Work Teams: Facilitation Skills, 2nd Edition

by Fran Rees (Author)

Synopsis

Completely revised and updated! Develop the skills that are key for becoming a successful team leader! Now in its second edition, How to Lead Work Teams shows you step by step, how to develop the powerful facilitation skills that will help make you an outstanding leader, coach, motivator and facilitator. Includes great tools and techniques to help you put these skills into action today! Using Rees's innovative L.E.A.D. model you can become a team leader who: leads with a clear purpose; articulate your team's goals and purpose and encourage open and thoughtful discussion (including disagreement), brainstorming, and active listening; 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. The new edition hits the nail on the head. Every employee who works as a member of a team needs to learn facilitation skills. How to Lead Work Teams explains and describes skills and practical techniques in a very readable way. - Judith C. Tingley, president, Performance Improvement Pros, Inc.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 236
Edition: 2
Publisher: Pfeiffer
Published: 25 May 2001

ISBN 10: 0787956910
ISBN 13: 9780787956912

Media Reviews
The new edition hits the nail on the head. Every employee whoworks as a member of a team needs to learn facilitation skills. Howto Lead Work Teams explains and describes skills and practicaltechniques in a very readable way. (Judith C. Tingley, president, Performance Improvement Pros, Inc)

An indispensable resource in our work culture, where we train andencourage all people to lead and make a difference. How to LeadWork Teams provides insightful approaches and clear instructionsfor facilitating that make it a valuable tool for managers, teamleaders, and, indeed, all employees. (Tom Baily, training anddevelopment consultant, Medtronic, Tempe, Arizona)

Fran Rees identifies the key ingredients for leaders and teams towork together effectively and efficiently in teams. This book is aninvaluable resource full of ideas, creative solutions, andpractical applications. (Pris Ronan, president, Life Design, Inc., and owner, Strategic Learning Solutions)

As leaders are having to deal with greater degrees of uncertaintyand ambiguity, it is imperative for them to adopt a morefacilitative style. Fran Rees has updated her original classic, Howto Lead Work Teams, which provides an insightful and very practicalapproach to helping leaders become more facilitative and purposefulin their role. (Douglas Reid, president, Douglas Reid &Associates)
Author Bio
FRAN REES is the owner of Rees & Associates, a Phoenix--based training and consulting firm. In the year 2001, her consulting firm celebrates her 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.