The Discussion Book, Stephen Preskill
The Discussion Book, Stephen Preskill
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The Discussion Book
The Discussion Book

Author: Stephen Preskill, Stephen D. Brookfield

Narrator: Tim Andres Pabon

Unabridged: 4 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 06/01/2017


Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vicki M. on March 18, 2023

Some great ideas for tutorial discussions (especially post-COVID when your students literally don't want to say anything).......more

Goodreads review by Spela on September 13, 2018

Great ideas for engaging discussion. Great reference! I used some of the suggested approaches/formats and loved the results (as did the students). Highly recommend for fellow professors and workshop facilitators.......more

Goodreads review by Lynn on March 04, 2018

A number of good and even clever suggestions. Unfortunately, the companion website is seemingly no longer available. I'm starting a public discussion group in a couple of months. I will definitely try some of the techniques delineated here.......more

Goodreads review by ladywallingford on July 09, 2023

Read to get some ideas on alternate ways to lead book club...gave me a few ideas but not so sure that it was worth reading all 50 (and the author was upfront about that too). It's to be used as more of a handbook if owned.......more

Goodreads review by Carol on June 03, 2017

All kinds of techniques for discussion, in any type of group setting.......more