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The Discussion Book: The Discussion Book
Written by Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill
Narrated by Tim Andres Pabon
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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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.
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.
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Reviews for The Discussion Book
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5It’s okay to spark a few ideas, but the application realm seems limited to certain kinds of meetings. Furthermore this comes from a pre-pandemic time and doesn’t really take remote meetings into account. I also didn’t like the reader, because emphasize of words was sometimes odd and hinted at a different meaning.
Overall: skip through the chapters quickly to spark a few ideas. Keep in mind, that the format proposed might have to be adapted das you. Apart from that, not much valuable content, sadly. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Good activities for getting people to interact.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The 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.