More Than 50 Ways to Build Team Consensus

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R. Bruce Williams - Educational Consultant, Texas
More Than 50 Ways to Build Team Consensus
June 2006 | 296 pages | Corwin
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"As a single source of ideas for facilitators and school leaders, this book is excellent. The author very thoroughly covers the material, and the procedures are easy to follow."
-Stephen H. Laub, Principal
Rolla Junior High School, MO

Foster committed, participative teamwork in any environment!

Today's workplace is increasingly shifting from top-down, authoritative leadership to engendering participation from all the stakeholders in a team. In response to this ever-growing trend, R. Bruce Williams provides group facilitators with insights and research about teams working together to reach consensus and accomplish their goals. This revised edition presents current brain research and its implications for team leaders and members, and explores the growing importance of participative processes in collaborative working environments.

In a user-friendly format, Williams offers more than 50 practical, step-by-step activities and strategies for immediate implementation, with real-life examples to assist in the consensus-building process. The activities address the four main components of full consensus:

  • Creating a purposeful vision
  • Effecting participative processes
  • Fostering individual commitment
  • Building strong collaborative teams

Use this valuable "road map" to set the stage for establishing consensus and effecting successful collaborative teamwork!

Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction to Building Team Consensus

Introduction to Building Team Consensus

I. Purposeful Vision

  • 1. Visualizing the Common Direction: Simple Things to Do
  • Hopes and Desires Conversation
  • Snapshots
  • Brainstorming Closure
  • TV Personality in Three Years
  • Common Direction Written Summary
  • Past, Present, and Future Images
  • 2. Creating Visible Documentation: Things That Take Effort
  • Cardstorming
  • Meeting Products Documentation
  • Artifacts
  • Report
  • Wall Decor of Meeting Products
  • Article
  • 3. Illuminating the Total Framework: For the Committed
  • Journey Wall
  • Global Events Conversation
  • Newsletter
  • Organization Principles Workshop
  • Purposeful Vision Chart
  • All the Stakeholders

II. Participative Processes

  • 4. Generating Total Participation: Simple Things to Do
  • Creating the Real Question
  • Eventful Happenings
  • Sticker Dots
  • Language
  • TV News Spot
  • Questions Not Dictums
  • Carousel Solutions
  • 5. Organizing the Meeting Focus: Things That Take Effort
  • One Concrete Product
  • Time Flow Picture
  • Meeting Space
  • Materials
  • Meeting Plan Forms
  • 6. Tapping the Group Agreement: For the Committed
  • Guidelines for a Consensus Outcome
  • Workshop Flow
  • Three-to-One Scenarios
  • Cooperative Writing Workshop
  • Mapping the Road to Agreement
  • Agreement: State and Restate
  • Testing for Consensus

III. Individual Commitment

  • 7. Eliciting Detailed Assignments: Simple Things to Do
  • Task Volunteers
  • What/Who/When Cards
  • Timelines
  • Attendance
  • Assignment Chart
  • 8. Expanding Personal Recognition: Things That Take Effort
  • Specific Praise
  • Individual Celebrations
  • Training, Coaching, or Project Feedback
  • Use of People’s Names
  • Personalized Job Tools
  • 9. Occasioning Individual Accountability and Absolution: For the Committed
  • Short Weekly Meetings
  • “I Am Nervous About” Conversations
  • Implementation Lesson Conversation
  • A Victory Party Before the Victory
  • Symbol of Commitment

IV. Collaborative Teams

  • 10. Intensifying Team Identity: Simple Things to Do
  • Team Member List
  • Team Name
  • Team Flag or Symbol
  • Team Motto
  • Team Song
  • Team Rituals or Rites
  • 11. Increasing Supportive Connection: Things That Take Effort
  • Winning Team Story
  • Leadership Rotation
  • Icebreaker Opening Conversation
  • Dyad or Triad Brainstorming
  • Making the Differences Visible
  • Team Victory Celebration
  • 12. Enhancing Group Reflection: For the Committed
  • Processing Partners
  • Content Processing
  • Meeting Processing
  • Teamwork Processing
  • Logs or Journals
  • Career Motivation Conversation
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Additional materials

Description

"As a single source of ideas for facilitators and school leaders, this book is excellent. The author very thoroughly covers the material, and the procedures are easy to follow."
-Stephen H. Laub, Principal
Rolla Junior High School, MO

Foster committed, participative teamwork in any environment!

Today's workplace is increasingly shifting from top-down, authoritative leadership to engendering participation from all the stakeholders in a team. In response to this ever-growing trend, R. Bruce Williams provides group facilitators with insights and research about teams working together to reach consensus and accomplish their goals. This revised edition presents current brain research and its implications for team leaders and members, and explores the growing importance of participative processes in collaborative working environments.

In a user-friendly format, Williams offers more than 50 practical, step-by-step activities and strategies for immediate implementation, with real-life examples to assist in the consensus-building process. The activities address the four main components of full consensus:

  • Creating a purposeful vision
  • Effecting participative processes
  • Fostering individual commitment
  • Building strong collaborative teams

Use this valuable "road map" to set the stage for establishing consensus and effecting successful collaborative teamwork!

Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction to Building Team Consensus

Introduction to Building Team Consensus

I. Purposeful Vision

  • 1. Visualizing the Common Direction: Simple Things to Do
  • Hopes and Desires Conversation
  • Snapshots
  • Brainstorming Closure
  • TV Personality in Three Years
  • Common Direction Written Summary
  • Past, Present, and Future Images
  • 2. Creating Visible Documentation: Things That Take Effort
  • Cardstorming
  • Meeting Products Documentation
  • Artifacts
  • Report
  • Wall Decor of Meeting Products
  • Article
  • 3. Illuminating the Total Framework: For the Committed
  • Journey Wall
  • Global Events Conversation
  • Newsletter
  • Organization Principles Workshop
  • Purposeful Vision Chart
  • All the Stakeholders

II. Participative Processes

  • 4. Generating Total Participation: Simple Things to Do
  • Creating the Real Question
  • Eventful Happenings
  • Sticker Dots
  • Language
  • TV News Spot
  • Questions Not Dictums
  • Carousel Solutions
  • 5. Organizing the Meeting Focus: Things That Take Effort
  • One Concrete Product
  • Time Flow Picture
  • Meeting Space
  • Materials
  • Meeting Plan Forms
  • 6. Tapping the Group Agreement: For the Committed
  • Guidelines for a Consensus Outcome
  • Workshop Flow
  • Three-to-One Scenarios
  • Cooperative Writing Workshop
  • Mapping the Road to Agreement
  • Agreement: State and Restate
  • Testing for Consensus

III. Individual Commitment

  • 7. Eliciting Detailed Assignments: Simple Things to Do
  • Task Volunteers
  • What/Who/When Cards
  • Timelines
  • Attendance
  • Assignment Chart
  • 8. Expanding Personal Recognition: Things That Take Effort
  • Specific Praise
  • Individual Celebrations
  • Training, Coaching, or Project Feedback
  • Use of People’s Names
  • Personalized Job Tools
  • 9. Occasioning Individual Accountability and Absolution: For the Committed
  • Short Weekly Meetings
  • “I Am Nervous About” Conversations
  • Implementation Lesson Conversation
  • A Victory Party Before the Victory
  • Symbol of Commitment

IV. Collaborative Teams

  • 10. Intensifying Team Identity: Simple Things to Do
  • Team Member List
  • Team Name
  • Team Flag or Symbol
  • Team Motto
  • Team Song
  • Team Rituals or Rites
  • 11. Increasing Supportive Connection: Things That Take Effort
  • Winning Team Story
  • Leadership Rotation
  • Icebreaker Opening Conversation
  • Dyad or Triad Brainstorming
  • Making the Differences Visible
  • Team Victory Celebration
  • 12. Enhancing Group Reflection: For the Committed
  • Processing Partners
  • Content Processing
  • Meeting Processing
  • Teamwork Processing
  • Logs or Journals
  • Career Motivation Conversation
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Additional materials

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"As a single source of ideas for facilitators and school leaders, this book is excellent. The author very thoroughly covers the material, and the procedures are easy to follow."
-Stephen H. Laub, Principal
Rolla Junior High School, MO

Foster committed, participative teamwork in any environment!

Today's workplace is increasingly shifting from top-down, authoritative leadership to engendering participation from all the stakeholders in a team. In response to this ever-growing trend, R. Bruce Williams provides group facilitators with insights and research about teams working together to reach consensus and accomplish their goals. This revised edition presents current brain research and its implications for team leaders and members, and explores the growing importance of participative processes in collaborative working environments.

In a user-friendly format, Williams offers more than 50 practical, step-by-step activities and strategies for immediate implementation, with real-life examples to assist in the consensus-building process. The activities address the four main components of full consensus:

  • Creating a purposeful vision
  • Effecting participative processes
  • Fostering individual commitment
  • Building strong collaborative teams

Use this valuable "road map" to set the stage for establishing consensus and effecting successful collaborative teamwork!


Table Of Contents:

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Introduction to Building Team Consensus
  • I. Purposeful Vision
  • 1. Visualizing the Common Direction: Simple Things to Do
  • Hopes and Desires Conversation
  • Snapshots
  • Brainstorming Closure
  • TV Personality in Three Years
  • Common Direction Written Summary
  • Past, Present, and Future Images
  • 2. Creating Visible Documentation: Things That Take Effort
  • Cardstorming
  • Meeting Products Documentation
  • Artifacts
  • Report
  • Wall Decor of Meeting Products
  • Article
  • 3. Illuminating the Total Framework: For the Committed
  • Journey Wall
  • Global Events Conversation
  • Newsletter
  • Organization Principles Workshop
  • Purposeful Vision Chart
  • All the Stakeholders
  • II. Participative Processes
  • 4. Generating Total Participation: Simple Things to Do
  • Creating the Real Question
  • Eventful Happenings
  • Sticker Dots
  • Language
  • TV News Spot
  • Questions Not Dictums
  • Carousel Solutions
  • 5. Organizing the Meeting Focus: Things That Take Effort
  • One Concrete Product
  • Time Flow Picture
  • Meeting Space
  • Materials
  • Meeting Plan Forms
  • 6. Tapping the Group Agreement: For the Committed
  • Guidelines for a Consensus Outcome
  • Workshop Flow
  • Three-to-One Scenarios
  • Cooperative Writing Workshop
  • Mapping the Road to Agreement
  • Agreement: State and Restate
  • Testing for Consensus
  • III. Individual Commitment
  • 7. Eliciting Detailed Assignments: Simple Things to Do
  • Task Volunteers
  • What/Who/When Cards
  • Timelines
  • Attendance
  • Assignment Chart
  • 8. Expanding Personal Recognition: Things That Take Effort
  • Specific Praise
  • Individual Celebrations
  • Training, Coaching, or Project Feedback
  • Use of People’s Names
  • Personalized Job Tools
  • 9. Occasioning Individual Accountability and Absolution: For the Committed
  • Short Weekly Meetings
  • “I Am Nervous About” Conversations
  • Implementation Lesson Conversation
  • A Victory Party Before the Victory
  • Symbol of Commitment
  • IV. Collaborative Teams
  • 10. Intensifying Team Identity: Simple Things to Do
  • Team Member List
  • Team Name
  • Team Flag or Symbol
  • Team Motto
  • Team Song
  • Team Rituals or Rites
  • 11. Increasing Supportive Connection: Things That Take Effort
  • Winning Team Story
  • Leadership Rotation
  • Icebreaker Opening Conversation
  • Dyad or Triad Brainstorming
  • Making the Differences Visible
  • Team Victory Celebration
  • 12. Enhancing Group Reflection: For the Committed
  • Processing Partners
  • Content Processing
  • Meeting Processing
  • Teamwork Processing
  • Logs or Journals
  • Career Motivation Conversation
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

Works well with the others texts we are currently using.
Mr Charles Kramer, Sch Of Ed Organization Leadshp, University Of La Verne
Text was supplemental to the class, but did not appear to be comprehensive enough for this class.
Dr Michele Kelk, School Of Education, Webster University
"Easy-to-follow activities that promote teamwork are outlined in this handbook. Although the intended audience is facilitators, educators can also use these tools to improve class community."
Curriculum Connections, Spring 2007, School Library Journal
"The book is handy, easy to use, and chock full of practical ideas that can be immediately implemented. It does not bog readers down in theoretical explanations, though it gives just enough background or rationale for each activity to ground them in the 'big picture.'"
Marta Gardner, Literacy Coach, Esperanza Elementary School, Los Angeles, CA
"As a single source of ideas for facilitators and building leaders, this book is excellent. The author very thoroughly covers the material and the procedures are easy to follow."
Stephen H. Laub, Principal, Rolla Junior High School, MO

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