Great Meetings! Great Results


"Great Meetings! has been the book I've recommended to others since it was published, and it just got better. The new edition has expanded content, more incisive graphics and lots of insight. Get, read and re-read this book. Become a better facilitator."
Geoff Ball, President, Smart Groups™
Los Altos, California

It is challenging to work as a group.  Managing a successful meeting takes planning and preparation, a host of facilitation skills and a bag full of process tools.  Great Meetings! Great Results is a clearly written, down-to-earth, “how to” book designed for beginners and experts alike, for trainers, consultants, human resource professionals, group leaders and members.  It is a resource book designed to help you understand the important steps for planning and designing a great meeting and to give you a variety of facilitation tools and techniques for managing meetings as well.  If you are ready to leave behind frustrating, ineffective meetings for meetings that are engaging and produce results, Great Meetings! Great Results was written for you.   

"People everywhere dread meetings, but this book, with its practical, proven tips and techniques has delivered great results for me with groups in London, Belgrade, San Juan, Winnipeg, Washington, and even at my own family reunion.

If Great Meetings! sounds like an oxymoron to you, read this book soon because it will completely change your approach to planning and facilitating any kind of gathering. Using a combination of practical skills, sophisticated group psychology and bull’s-eye common sense, Great Meetings! makes long-winded unfocused meetings a thing of the past.”
Peter Twitchell Director, Program Development.
YouthBuild U.S.A. Boston, Massachusetts

“Great Meetings! is a wonderful resource for facilitators, facilitation trainers, and for mediators making the transition to group facilitation.  The book is very clear, and has a wealth of ideas and tools for both the new facilitator and those of us with years of
experience.  This is the book I turn to first when I am looking for approaches to a meeting.  Other books are very good, but I have not seen any others with comparable breadth and how-to tools.   I particularly appreciate their organization of the book and the chapters, which allows the reader to find exactly the tool needed for the part of the meeting and/or task s/he is working on.

Their chapters on ‘Managing Conflict in Groups’ and ‘Interventions: When to Step In’ are exceedingly practical.   Kelsey and Plumb have offered a great resource in these areas of most difficulty for new facilitators.  It is well worth sitting down with this book before, during and after each facilitation.
I am delighted with the new edition.  Kelsey and Plumb have added new ideas and techniques, as well as tools.  It is even clearer than the last edition.  I would not have thought that possible.”
Zena Zumeta, Mediator, Facilitator, Trainer.
Mediation Training & Consultation Institute, Ann Arbor, Michigan

What is inside?

Chapter One: Facilitation: The Key to a Great Meeting
Chapter Two: Knowing Your Group
Chapter Three: Getting a Good Start
Chapter Four: Designing a Great Meeting
Chapter Five: Understanding Process
Chapter Six: Choosing the Right Tool
Chapter Seven: Maximizing the Group’s Potential
Chapter Eight: Promoting Positive Communication
Chapter Nine: Managing Conflict in Groups
Chapter Ten: Interventions: When to Step In
Chapter Eleven: Integrating Graphics into your Meetings
Chapter Twelve: Reflections on the Art of Facilitation

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