The consensus building handbook: a comprehensive guide to reaching agreementThis handbook on group decision-making for those wanting to operate in a consensus fashion stresses the advantages of informal, common sense approaches to working together. It describes how any group can put these approaches into practice, and relates numerous examples of situations in which such approaches have been applied. |
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Contents
An Alternative to Roberts Rules of Order for Groups | 3 |
Conducting a Conflict Assessment | 99 |
Designing a Consensus Building Process | 137 |
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| Title | The consensus building handbook: a comprehensive guide to reaching agreement |
| Authors | Lawrence Susskind, Sarah McKearnan, Jennifer Thomas-Larmer |
| Editors | Lawrence Susskind, Sarah McKearnan, Jennifer Thomas-Larmer |
| Publisher | Sage Publications, 1999 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | Nov 9, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0761908447, 9780761908449 |
| Length | 1147 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Negotiating Conflict management Consensus (Social sciences) Consensus (Social sciences)/ Case studies Consensus (Social sciences)/ Handbooks, manuals, etc Group decision making Group decision-making Group decision-making/ Handbooks, manuals, etc Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies Psychology / Interpersonal Relations Social Science / General Social Science / Sociology / General |
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