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The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook Tips, Tools, and Tested Methods for Consultants, Facilitators, Managers, Trainers, and Coaches Roger Schwarz, Anne Davidson, Peg Carlson, Sue McKinney, and Contributors More Praise for The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook “This book provides the tools, techniques, and ...

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The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook Tips, Tools, and Tested Methods for Consultants, Facilitators, Managers, Trainers, and Coaches

Roger Schwarz, Anne Davidson, Peg Carlson, Sue McKinney, and Contributors

More Praise for The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook “This book provides the tools, techniques, and actual experience to truly practice shared leadership. Roger Schwarz and his colleagues provide not only the theory but the practical, hands-on experience required to develop high-performance teams.” —Jay Hennig, vice president, Moog, Inc. “Although I consider myself already familiar with Roger’s Skilled Facilitator approach, I was amazed at the breadth and depth this Fieldbook provides. It is a compelling resource for anyone interested in building his or her facilitative capabilities.” —Sandy Schuman, University at Albany, SUNY; editor, The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation; and moderator, the Electronic Discussion on Group Facilitation “The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook is a must-have for anyone serving as a third-party intervener, coach, consultant, or a manager with a desire to develop people and groups.” —Thomas P. Zgambo, corporate ombudsman, Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. “The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook truly provides the reader with an understandable ‘root cause’ perspective on why people interact the way they do and the means to create change. It goes way beyond the ‘memorize these rules’ approach advocated by many practitioners.” —Sid Terry, director of organization development, NA Manufacturing, Kraft Foods

Also by Roger Schwarz The Skilled Facilitator: A Comprehensive Resource for Consultants, Facilitators, Managers, Trainers, and Coaches (New and Revised)

The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook

The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook Tips, Tools, and Tested Methods for Consultants, Facilitators, Managers, Trainers, and Coaches

Roger Schwarz, Anne Davidson, Peg Carlson, Sue McKinney, and Contributors

Copyright © 2005 by Roger M. Schwarz, Anne S. Davidson, Margaret S. Carlson, and Susanne C. McKinney. All rights reserved. Published by Jossey-Bass A Wiley Imprint 989 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-1741

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To my parents, Richard and Jeanne Schwarz, for all their love and encouragement R.S.

To my family, friends, and clients for their love and support, and especially to my nieces and grandnieces, Carson, Alex, Emily, and Allison—the young women who will create the world I dream about A.D.

To Andrew, Jacob, and Lena, with love and thanks for their unfailing wisdom, humor, and support P.C.

To my family, who encouraged me to be curious and openminded about all things; to Reba, Oz, and Rain, who keep me grounded; and to my new husband, Matthias Ender, for his unconditional support S.M.

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Part One: Understanding the Skilled Facilitator Approach 1 The Skilled Facilitator Approach 3 Roger Schwarz 2 The Group Effectiveness Model 15 Roger Schwarz 3 Using Facilitative Skills in Different Roles 27 Roger Schwarz 4 Understanding What Guides Your Behavior 33 Roger Schwarz 5 Ground Rules for Effective Groups 61 Roger Schwarz 6 The Diagnosis-Intervention Cycle 69 Peg Carlson 7 Thinking and Acting Systemically 75 Anne Davidson 8 Contracting with Groups 89 Roger Schwarz Part Two: Starting Out 9 Jointly Designing the Purpose and Process for a Conversation 103 Roger Schwarz, Anne Davidson 10 Process Designs 107 Anne Davidson 11 Basic Facilitation: What Can Be Accomplished? What Cannot? 115 Peg Carlson 12 Do the Math: Creating a Realistic Agenda 119 Peg Carlson 13 Beginning Meetings: Introductions and Guidelines for Working Together Anne Davidson 14 Introducing the Ground Rules and Principles in Your Own Words 131 Sue McKinney 15 Using the Group Effectiveness Model 135 Anne Davidson

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16 Helping Group Members Focus on Interests Rather Than Positions 145 Peg Carlson 17 Developing Shared Vision and Values 149 Anne Davidson 18 Helping Groups Clarify Roles and Expectations 159 Anne Davidson 19 Using the Skilled Facilitator Approach to Strengthen Work Groups and Teams Anne Davidson 20 Using the Ground Rules in E-Mail 181 Roger Schwarz Part Three: Deepening Your Practice 21 Ways to Practice the Ground Rules 189 Anne Davidson 22 Some Tips for Diagnosing at the Speed of Conversation 195 Peg Carlson 23 Opening Lines 201 Roger Schwarz 24 Reducing the Skilled Facilitator Jargon 207 Roger Schwarz 25 Now What Do I Do? Using Improv to Improve Your Facilitation Roger Schwarz, Greg Hohn 26 Ground Rules Without the Mutual Learning Model Are Like Houses Without Foundations 217 Sue McKinney 27 Writing and Analyzing a Left-Hand Column Case 235 Roger Schwarz Part Four: Facing Challenges 28 Holding Risky Conversations 249 Anne Davidson 29 Exploring Your Contributions to Problems 255 Roger Schwarz 30 Moving Toward Difficulty 261 Sue McKinney 31 Responding to Silence and Interruptions and Enabling Members to Talk to Each Other 269 Roger Schwarz 32 Raising Issues In or Out of the Group 273 Roger Schwarz

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Part Five: Seeking Your Path 33 Finding Your Voice 279 Anne Davidson 34 Being a Mutual Learner in a Unilaterally Controlling World 287 Sue McKinney 35 Introducing the Skilled Facilitator Approach at Work: Pitfalls and Successes Sue McKinney 36 Bringing It All Back Home, or Open Mouth, Insert Foot 299 Peter Hille and the Staff of the Brushy Fork Institute 37 A Carp in the Land of Koi 305 Susan R. Williams

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Part Six: Leading and Changing Organizations 38 Daily Challenges of a Facilitative Leader 309 Tom Moore 39 Learning to Live Our Philosophy 315 Betsy Monier-Williams 40 Helping a Team Understand the System They Created 323 Roger Schwarz 41 “I Can’t Use This Approach Unless My Boss Does” 331 Roger Schwarz 42 How to Stop Contributing to Your Boss’s and Your Own Ineffectiveness Roger Schwarz 43 Developmental Facilitation 339 Anne Davidson, Dick McMahon 44 Guidelines for Theory-in-Use Interventions 349 Anne Davidson, Dick McMahon 45 Introducing the Core Values and Ground Rules 361 Jeff Koeze 46 From Learning to Lead to Leading to Learn 367 Joe Huffman 47 Reflections of a Somewhat Facilitative Leader 377 Jeff Koeze 48 Integrating the Skilled Facilitator Approach with Organizational Policies and Procedures 383 Roger Schwarz, Anne Davidson 49 360-Degree Feedback and the Skilled Facilitator Approach 391 Peg Carlson 50 Implementing a 360-Degree Feedback System 403 Bron D. Skinner

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51 Do Surveys Provide Valid Information for Organizational Change? 409 Peg Carlson 52 Using the Skilled Facilitator Approach in Different and Multiple Cultures Anne Davidson

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Part Seven: Integrating the Skilled Facilitator Approach in Your Worklife (and Non-Worklife) 53 The Drama Triangle: A Unilateral Control Program for Helping Others 421 Dick McMahon 54 Using Creative and Survival Cycles to See and Shift Mental Models 433 Guillermo Cuéllar 55 The Skilled Facilitator Approach and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator 437 Anne Davidson 56 Applying the Skilled Facilitator Approach to a Systems Thinking Analysis 447 Chris Soderquist 57 The Facilitative Coach 457 Anne Davidson, Dale Schwarz 58 Becoming a Facilitative Trainer 479 Sue McKinney, Matt Beane 59 Being a Facilitative Consultant 495 Harry Furukawa 60 Using the Skilled Facilitator Approach as a Parent 505 Peg Carlson 61 Running for Office in a Unilaterally Controlling World 511 Steve Kay 62 Using the Facilitative Leader Approach in Public Office 515 Verla Insko Afterword: Some Important Lessons 521 Roger Schwarz, Anne Davidson Acknowledgments 527 Index 529 About Roger Schwarz & Associates

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Editors, Authors, and Contributors Roger Schwarz is founder and president of Roger Schwarz & Associates, a consulting firm that is dedicated to helping people change how they think and act so they can improve their business results and relationships—often in ways they didn’t think possible. For more than twenty-five years, he has been helping groups and organizations by facilitating as well as consulting, coaching, and teaching and speaking on the subjects of facilitation, teams, and leadership. His clients include Fortune 500 corporations; federal, state, and local government; educational institutions; and nonprofit organizations. His book The Skilled Facilitator (Jossey-Bass, 2002) is a standard reference in the field. An organizational psychologist, Roger was formerly associate professor of public management and government at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned his Ph.D. and A.M. in organizational psychology from The University of Michigan, his M.Ed. from Harvard University, and his B.S. degree in psychology from Tufts University. Anne Davidson is a consultant with Roger Schwarz & Associates. She specializes in leadership development, facilitator training, and long-term organizational and community change projects. She works internationally with management groups, work teams, and nonprofit and local government boards. She increasingly coaches individuals who want to embrace learning and creative development in their jobs and personal lives. Her journey toward organization development and training started almost thirty years ago when she began teaching eleventh-grade English in South Carolina. Since that time, she has served as a media center director; a marketing and management instructor in the School of Business at Western Carolina University; the training and organization development director for the City of Asheville, North Carolina; and a lecturer in public management and government at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Anne learned the Skilled Facilitator approach in 1988 during the early phases of its development when the City of Asheville became a client of Roger Schwarz & Associates. She earned her B.A. in English and secondary education from Presbyterian College. She holds an M.L.S. from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.B.A. from Western Carolina University. Peg Carlson is an organizational psychologist who earned her Ph.D. from The University of Michigan. She is a consultant with Roger Schwarz & Associates and adjunct associate professor of public management and government at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She teaches, consults, and writes in the area of organizational change and development. She leads workshops on facilitation and facilitative leadership and frequently facilitates meetings for governing boards, management teams, and community groups. She has published articles on developing effective groups, assessing the chief executive’s performance, and multirater feedback. Peg started using the Skilled Facilitator approach with Roger Schwarz and colleagues Dick McMahon and Kurt Jenne when she joined the UNC faculty in 1992. She resigned her tenured position in 2000 to better balance work and family life.

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Sue McKinney is a consultant with Roger Schwarz & Associates and independently. Formerly, she was director of organizational development for an international nongovernmental organization based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Sue developed her facilitation skills in the early 1980s while working for an international nonprofit grounded in the consensus decision-making process. She first worked with Roger Schwarz in 1990–1991 while serving as an intern to a county social services management team working with him. In 1997, she attended the two-week Skilled Facilitator class offered by The University of North Carolina Institute of Government and within one year began working with Schwarz to teach classes around the country. McKinney has practical expertise in leadership development, board development, mediation, facilitation, and training of trainers. She believes in the value of humor and play to stimulate creativity and productivity and is known for her energetic and humorous approach to working with groups. She leads workshops on a variety of topics, including facilitative leadership, and facilitates public and nonprofit board and staff retreats. Sue earned her A.B. in history from Duke University and her M.S.W. from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a specialization in human services administration. Matt Beane is an organization development, coaching, and training professional who helps individuals, groups, and organizations exceed performance expectations while increasing both the quality of their relationships and their ability to learn from adversity. His specialty and passion lie in helping people assess gaps between their behavior and their espoused values, allowing them to make more informed choices about their behavior and values in the future. He is an associate with Roger Schwarz & Associates and has worked with a number of Fortune 1000 companies in the financial, professional services, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, hi-tech, travel, consumer goods, and hospitality sectors, with a variety of nonprofit and governmental organizations, and in the public workshop format. Before becoming an independent in 2002, he was independent workforce director at the Forum Corporation, a consultancy specializing in workplace learning solutions. Matt holds a B.A. in philosophy from Bowdoin College and has done graduate work at Harvard’s School of Education in Adult Learning. Guillermo Cuéllar is an international organization development consultant, facilitator, psychotherapist, and artist who brings a unique multicultural and multidisciplinary perspective to engage others in the change processes. He is the cofounding president of the Center for Creative Consciousness. For over thirty years, he has guided individuals and groups in processes to develop creative intelligence and discover and use their talents and gifts. He has taught cross-cultural management at the School of International Training in the Program of International Management, in Brattleboro, Vermont, and at NTL Institute in Bethel, Maine. He has worked since 1990 for two consulting firms in the field of managing diversity: Elsie Y. Cross and Associates and Alignment Strategies. He provides professional services in both English and Spanish. Guillermo earned his B.F.A. and M.A. in counseling at the University of South Florida in Tampa Florida. He then earned an Ed.D. from the University of Massachusetts. Diane Florio is the manager of human resources development for SpectraSite Communications, a wireless infrastructure company based in Cary, North Carolina. She is responsible for leading and implementing development initiatives in a fast-paced organization. She works with individuals, groups,

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and departments to improve services, teamwork, and leadership. Diane has worked in both the private and public sectors and has fifteen years of experience in the work of human behavior and professional development. She was trained in the Skilled Facilitator approach in 2000. She received a B.S. in health education from SUNY, Cortland in New York and her M.S. in human resources education from Fordham University, New York. She holds a business coaching certification from The University of North Carolina. Harry Furukawa is an organization architect and a consultant with Roger Schwarz & Associates. He helps people design and transform the organizations in which they work in order to achieve better financial, environmental, and social results. He consults in strategic planning, values and culture identification and development, organizational change, and quality and productivity improvement. He has served as the associate director of the University of Maryland Center for Quality and Productivity and as the senior director for strategic planning at the American Red Cross. He also has served as examiner on the board of examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for five years (four as a senior examiner). He earned a B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University, a master of architecture from Harvard University, and an executive M.B.A. from Loyola College. Peter Hille has been director of Brushy Fork Institute of Berea College, which since 1988 has carried out a unique leadership development program in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Peter has worked extensively in Brushy Fork’s leadership development program, recruiting participants, organizing workshops, and working with teams of community leaders as they carry out local projects. He has created custom workshops, designed and led retreats, and facilitated strategic planning processes for regional nonprofits, foundations, government agencies, and development organizations. He has also conducted community development workshops nationally and internationally, in Russia and Slovakia. In recent years, Peter has focused on building collaborative networks of diverse organizations serving the Appalachian region. A graduate of Swarthmore College, his background includes experience in grassroots environmental organizing and small business management. Greg Hohn is the director of Transactors Improv Co., the South’s oldest improvisational theater, based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He joined the company in 1989 and became director in 1996. Since 1998 he has been teaching Applied Improv in a wide variety of venues. He is adjunct lecturer in business communication at The University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and a visiting faculty member at Baruch College, City University of New York. In addition to work in academia, Greg teaches Applied Improv, improvisational theater, acting, and presentation skills for businesses, organizations, and educational institutions across the country. As an actor, he works in film, television, radio, scripted theater, and industrial media. He h...