Developing and supporting creative problem solving teams: part 2 – facilitator competencies

Management Decision

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 537-551

  Mcfadzean, Elspeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competences; Creativity; Facilitators; Meetings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986161477     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740210433936     Document Type: Article

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