Group Skills
This topic provides information about major types of groups, icebreakers and warmups for groups, facilitation (face-to-face and online) and general resources for more information. Note that the reader might best be served to first read the topic Group Dynamics to understand the basic nature of most groups and their typical stages of development. (It's not clear at this time if online groups have similar nature and stages.)
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Sections of This Topic Include:
Some Ice Breakers and Warmup Activities
Major Types of Groups and Their Facilitation
(many types of groups)
Parliamentary Procedures
General Resources Facilitation
Library
Ice Breakers and Warmup Activities
Warmup Activities
Respect Icebreaker
Anagram
Ice Breaking Activity
Icebreakers
10
Ways to Break the Ice
Sizzlin Session Starters
Various Types of Groups and Group Matters
Action Learning
Committees
Communities of Practice
Conflict
Management
Dialoguing
Facilitating
in Face-to-Face Groups
Facilitating
Online Groups (virtual communities)
Focus
Groups
Group Coaching
Group
Dynamics (about nature of groups, stages of group development,
etc)
Group
Learning
Group-Based
Problem Solving and Decision Making
Large-Scale
Interventions
Meeting
Management
Open
Space Technology
Self-Directed
and Self-Managed Work Teams
Team
Building
Virtual
Teams
Parliamentary Procedures
Parliamentary procedures provide a set of specific rules by
which members of meetings can conduct their meeting process in
a very orderly fashion, thereby helping to ensure that members
get the most out of meetings. These procedures are usually used
in very formal meetings, for example, meetings of Boards of Directors.
Jim Slaughter,
parliamentarien (see his "cheat sheets")
Roberts
Rules (the official site)
Rules Online
National
Parliamentarian Association
Trout's
Top Ten Rules of Order
General Resources
List
of online articles
Center
for the Study of Work Teams
The
Reading Room
For the Category of Facilitation and Teams:
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Recommended Books
Program Planning Kit to develop
high-quality peer coaching group program
- by Carter McNamara, MBA, PHD, published by Authenticity Consulting, LCC. The program planning kit provides step-by-step guidelines to plan, market (internally or externally), facilitate and evaluate a high-quality peer coaching group program for any application our outcome. The kit includes a program planning guidebook, a facilitator's guidebook and a guidebook for members of a peer coaching group.
The following books are recommended because of their highly practical nature and often because they include a wide range of information about this Library topic. To get more information about each book, just hover your cursor over the image of the book. A "bubble" of information will be displayed. You can click on the title of the book in that bubble to get more information, too.
Also See
Strategic Planning (Facilitating) -- Recommended Books
Organizational Development (Facilitating) -- Recommended Books
