Leadership essentials: Facilitation skills for improving group effectiveness

Proceedings ACM SIGUCCS User Services Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 153-160

  Paulsen, Don ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Facilitator; Group communication; Group process; Human resource development; Leadership

Indexed keywords

FACILITATION; FACILITATOR; GROUP COMMUNICATION; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; LEADERSHIP;

COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION THEORY; PERSONNEL; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PRODUCTIVITY;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

EID: 23944496841     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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