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| Teams
for a New Generation: A
Facilitator's
Field Guide Robinson, G, & Rose, M. (2007) Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse. 164 pages. ISBN: 978-1-4343-2411-5 View 'Teams for a New Generation' at Amazon.com 
View 'Teams for a New Generation' at at Amazon.co.uk  Reviewed by Roger Greenaway in the Australian Journal for Outdoor Education, v12n1, 2008. |
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DESCRIPTION: Synopsis There has been much written about teams with an ongoing debate about the primacy of environment or dynamics as the most important element to effective teams. Yet the need for groups to be able to consistently tap into the collective intelligence present in the team is more and more important. This requires teams to move beyond cooperation, goodwill and consensus and be able to challenge individual and collective assumptions to see new alternatives. This book provides a simple but elegant model to understand how teams move past the mediocrity of consensus to innovative thinking that comes with Collective Learning. (extract from the publisher's description) |
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blurb reads:
“This book provides a simple model to understand how teams
move
past the mediocrity of consensus to innovative thinking that comes
with Collective Learning. The purpose is to help facilitators move
experiential learning beyond the traditional notion of
teambuilding.” The first half of the book comprises ten chapters that are mostly about collective learning and awareness (relational, personal and organisational). The second half of the book describes 12 ‘tools’ and 13 ‘activities.’ The ‘tools’ are a mixture of models and worksheets. Greg Robinson declares that one of his favourite ‘tools’ is a Challenge Course, though more logically the Challenge Course Climbing Tower is classified as an ‘activity’ rather than as a ‘tool.’ Collectively, these tools could be described as ‘diagnostic tools’ because their stated purpose is “to help the facilitator assess, track and pinpoint habits and tendencies that may be limiting the team’s effectiveness.” ... It is interesting that the tools are intended to help the facilitator notice behaviours that may be limiting the team’s effectiveness. A facilitator of team learning will surely also want tools that that help them notice behaviours that are contributing to team effectiveness (not just limiting behaviours), as well as tools for teams to use (not just tools for the facilitator), as well as tools that get beneath behaviours... To read the full review open this pdf file (The full review is published here with permission from the Australian Journal for Outdoor Education) Have you read the book yet? What did you think? Your review comments (short or long) are always welcome. Please write to: roger@reviewing.co.uk if you would like your comments to appear on this page. Do you want to see what others say? Use the free service of http://www.ChangeDetection.com/ to monitor changes to this page. |
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