A how-to guide for building professional and personal relationships shares problem-solving strategies in an easy-to-read format, in a guide that identifies the benefits of collaborative skills while outlining techniques on how to overcome personal factors and negotiate effectively. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Directed to teachers, facilitators, and counselors, offers more than 170 cooperative activities for classrooms, summer camps, and family occasions designed to improve children's problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate.

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Product Description: This practical guide provides a philosophical framework and a basic set of problem-solving skills that can make successful collaboration a reality.

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Offering a dynamic and pragmatic approach to business success, this helpful handbook introduces the insights, methods, practices, techniques, tools, and strategies used by skilled business leaders in a variety of businesses to motivate a struggling team, change one's goals, develop a clearer picture of where one is headed, or to move forward. 50,000 first printing.

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Group Creativity explores the unique form of creativity that emerges from collaborating groups. Dr. Sawyer draws on his studies of jazz ensembles and improvisational theater groups to develop a model of creative group processes. He applies this model of group creativity to a wide range of collaborating groups, including group learning in classrooms and innovative teams in organizations. In group creativity, a group comes together to collaboratively create in real time. The creative inspiration emerges from the interaction and communication among the members, and makes the result more than the sum of its parts. The dynamic, moment-to-moment communication among jazz musicians and improvising actors is the primary topic of the book. Sawyer explores performers' close listening and sensitivity, the submerging of the ego to the group mind, and the ways that performers work together to create something better than and different from what one solitary individual could create alone. These explorations provide insight into all forms of group creativity and collaboration.

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Featuring a vast array of creativity tips, brainstorming exercises, and anecdotes from designers of all experience levels, an innovative, interactive, and entertaining guide shows readers how to overcome the challenges that stand in the way of the design process. Original.

Product Description: It has long been established that groups are likely to solve many problems more successfully than individuals - with this book, the author provides readers with the tools and techniques to make this process transparent and effective...read more

Outlines five principles that can enable any group to make better decisions and function more effectively, in a guide that covers how to involve affected people, build consensus, plan and process effectively, and utilize group memory. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Stop wasting time on unfocused and unproductive meetings! A Common Sense Survey for Assessing the Meeting Effectiveness of Intact and Ongoing Groups How effective are your meetings? Do people come well-prepared? Is there an agenda? Does everyone participate? Are participants open to the ideas of others? Do you spend most of your time on the most important things? With this survey, you can diagnose the effectiveness of your meetings and identify practical ways to improve them...read more

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Product Description: PARTNERING: Today’s Business Strategy Solution Partnering is the process of two or more business entities coming together for the purpose of developing synergistic solutions to their particular challenges. This timely, one-of-a-kind book provides proven strategies and the most comprehensive guidance available for creating Partnering alliances for corporations of any size...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The Third Edition of this highly respected and widely cited text takes an applied, problem-solving approach that recognizes the creative potential of the individual. It serves as a handbook on a variety of small-group communication activities, including conducting meetings (using the standard agenda) and handling conflict...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Project sponsors can have a tremendous impact on the success of key projects. However, in reality, they miss the mark and are often uninvolved or over-involved and confused about their roles. The purpose of this guide is to help managers add value as sponsors of cross-functional projects; including development projects, information system projects, organizational change projects, and process improvement projects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book portrays how participatory inquiry in a critical hermeneutic tradition moves the research process for social scientists from an epistemological place to an ontological event. Part One offers a critique of the technical, intellectual, and advocacy research enterprises and provides the reader a segue to a philosophical and historical discussion of critical hermeneutics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: "Working with Groups" looks at the field of small group dynamics, focusing on the behaviour and processes typical of management, planning, decision making and learning groups. For the second edition of this book, the "key concepts" approach has been retained, taking the reader from theoretical frameworks through to practical applications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text is a companion manual, presenting techniques to facilitate a continuous improvement effort designed to banish complacency from an organization.

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