Products

Products

Ground Rules for Effective Groups Poster

This is a poster-size list of the revised 9 ground rules and underlying values that form the core of our approach.
 $20.00 each with quantity discounts available. Add to Cart

Ground Rules for Effective Groups Article

This short article by Roger Schwarz describes a set of specific ground rules and how group members can use them to increase their effectiveness. We share it with every one of our clients as a way to introduce them to our work.

$6.00 each with quantity discounts available. Add to Cart

Ground Rules for Effective Groups Article (Electronic Version)

This is the same article as above, but in an .pdf version you will receive through email.

$6.00 each with quantity discounts available. Add to Cart

Ground Rules for Effective Groups Pocketcard

A laminated, pocket-size list of the revised 9 ground rules and the underlying core values with the diagnosis-intervention cycle on the other side

The Ground Rules Mug

A 20oz mug (no, this is not a misprint - that's one big cup o' java). It has the revised Ground Rules for Effective Groups on one side and the Mutual Learning Mindset on the other. Add to Cart

$15.00 each

Books

The Facilitative Coaching Toolkit by Dale Schwarz & Anne Davidson

"This volume is a rich, enticing, and extensive treasure-trove of everything you need to know about facilitating the growth and awareness of clients. Filled with creative suggestions and practices for the coaching relationship, this compendium affirms and empowers the coach who will then more skillfully guide clients in achieving their highest potential."
--Dr. Paula Green, Director, Karuna Center for Peacebuilding, Professor, School for International Training

$50.00 USD Add to Cart

A Different Kind of Coaching Book. Facilitative Coaching is a dynamic resource that offers coaches, leaders, facilitators, consultants, and therapists a guide for expanding their repertoire and helping their clients achieve lasting results. It challenges coaches to employ a full range of creative methods for working with the whole brain and helping themselves and their clients get unstuck when facing obstacles.

The Skilled Facilitator: A Comprehensive Resource for Consultants, Facilitators, Managers, Trainers, and Coaches by Roger Schwarz

"Everyone wants to be a facilitator: consultants, managers, even teachers. What is desperately needed is a common, practical reference for understanding facilitation in diverse professional settings. No one has done a better job than Roger Schwarz of synthesizing the major theoretical underpinnings and translating them into clear, usable guidelines for practitioners."
--Peter M. Senge, author, The Fifth Discipline

$40.00 USD Add to Cart

Since the publication of the first edition in 1994, readers have regarded The Skilled Facilitator: A Comprehensive Resource for Consultants, Facilitators, Managers, Trainers and Coaches as a critical resource for anyone interested in helping groups and organizations function more effectively. The second edition is completely revised.

The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook: Tips, Tools, and Tested Methods for Consultants, Facilitators, Managers, Trainers, and Coaches by Roger Schwarz, Anne Davidson, Peg Carlson and Sue McKinney

"This is one of the best field books I have ever read. The advice is derived from sound research and theory, and it is crafted in a clear-cut, concrete, detailed, and highly useful way. It focuses on the important everyday skills of practice, including some of the most difficult issues that challenge the user."
--Chris Argyris, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Organizational Behavior, emeritus, Harvard University; author, Reasons and Rationalizations: The Limits of Organizational Knowledge

$53.00 USD Add to Cart

People in organizations and communities around the world are using the Skilled Facilitator approach to develop effective teams and organizations and generate open, honest and productive working relationships. Since the publication of the first edition of The Skilled Facilitator, we have been privileged to work with a number of them. Some attended our public workshops, others we coached, and still others invited us to help them improve their organizations. Our clients learned from us, we learned from them, and we have learned together. The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook reflects these lessons.

Teleclasses

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