Group Facilitation Skills for Managers

1988 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Westley ◽  
James A. Waters
Keyword(s):  
Group Facilitation ◽  
Facilitation Skills

Lived Experiences in ‘Active’ Small Group Learning

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-17
Author(s):  
P. Ravi Shankar
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Group Learning ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Faculty Training ◽  
Small Group Learning ◽  
Group Facilitation ◽  
Facilitation Skills

Active learning is becoming increasingly important in medical schools. In this article, the author describes his experiences with active learning in two medical schools in Nepal. The author employed active learning during pharmacology ‘practical’ sessions and medical humanities modules, as well as during correlation seminars. The author has also used the technique during workshops. Faculties are trained in small group facilitation skills during faculty training workshops.

Effects of Human Relations Training with Houseparents on Attainment of Group Facilitation Skills

1977 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 787-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph C. Bledsoe ◽  
Gene R. Layser
Keyword(s):  
Control Group ◽  
Trained Group ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Group Facilitation ◽  
The Core ◽  
Empathic Understanding ◽  
Systematic Training ◽  
Facilitation Skills ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Human Relations Training

24-hr. (12 wk., 2 hr. per week) systematic training in human relations with 16 houseparent couples produced higher mean facilitation skills as measured by the Index of Responding than was achieved by a control group of 16 houseparent couples. Students (boys) residing in cottages whose parents received the training did not perceive their parents more favorably in the core helping dimensions of Empathic Understanding, Level of Regard, Unconditionality of Regard, and Congruence (measured by the Relationship Inventory) than did boys whose parents did not receive the training. Greater variability of the trained group on all dimensions suggested that the training may have enabled some houseparents to function more effectively (as perceived by the boys) whereas in other instances they were perceived to function less effectively than did the control houseparents.

Online Group Facilitation Skills

2011 ◽  
pp. 354-358
Author(s):  
Nancy White
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Group Facilitation ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Facilitation Skills ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Online Group ◽  
Philosophical Underpinning ◽  
The Way

Traditional face-to-face (F2F) group facilitation is a well-evolved practice. Roger Schwarz defined it as “a process in which a person who is acceptable to all members of the group, substantively neutral and has no decision-making authority intervenes to help a group improve the way it identifies and solves problems and makes decisions, in order to increase the group’s effectiveness” (Schwarz, 1994, p 4). Like most practices, facilitation includes a wide range of techniques and philosophical underpinning. For example, while Schwarz notes that group members can’t formally fill the role of facilitator, or do not have decision-making power, there are other models that include both these conditions.

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