Links to Personal Skills, Teamwork, Facilitation and Leadership

General

Free Management Library. Access to many resources and websites on all aspects of management, including personal skills, group management, human resources and much, much more.

Business Balls - Free organizational and personal development. Free ethical learning and development resources for people and organizations, run by Alan Chapman, in Leicester, England. Another massive site that includes tips on personal development, running teamwork workshops, managing institutional change, learning styles, how to plan meetings, loads of theory; in fact lots of things…as well as a huge amount of fun stuff.

12Manage. Explanation of over 400 models of management methods, models, and organisational theory. Including communication, decision making, strategy, ethics, leadership, change and organization, etc.

Interpersonal Skills, Personality Types

Interpersonal / Human Skills - Extensive material (lots of linked pages) from the Free Management Library.

Personality theories, types and tests “knowledge [of personality theories] helps to develop self-awareness and also to help others to achieve greater self-awareness and development too”. Great page to start if you want to know about personality types.

Kolb learning styles. Nice description from this useful website.

Teams and Teambuilding

Group Skills. Well organised access to information, publications, resources about major types of groups, group techniques, facilitation (face-to-face and online) and more.

Improving business performance through better teamwork. Links to some useful articles.

Starting and Maintaining Effective Teams: A Guidebook for the CGIAR (69 pages)

Articles on Team Building, from Teambuidling Inc. Links to useful articles, from this largely commercial site.

Bruce Tuckman's 1965 model of team development (Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing).

Twelve Tips for Team Building, How to make teams effective by Susan M. Heathfield.

Groups that work. Management tips from Gerard Blair.

Business Fundamentals - Free Ideas. Includes "a variety of activities for Trainers, Facilitators, Meeting Energizers and anyone who wants to liven up a dull day at work."

Facilitation and Moderation

facilitation.start4all.com . Large gateway with links to publications, training opportunities, networks, etc. Good entry point to resources on facilitation

The International Association of Facilitators. "The recognized source for credible and valuable professional help for practicing facilitator". Useful (straightforward) resources and more. Information also in French and Spanish.

Resources for Facilitators. Extensive material (lots of linked pages) from the Free Management Library

Facilitation Excellence: The Seven Separators . Hints on how to be a good facilitator from the Facilitation Company.

Facilitation Resources. Comprehensive gateway, simple layout.

Moderation. "The most powerful process for facilitating business planning, problem solving and active learning". Hints and training opportunities from Neuland (who also sell the moderation kits).

The Group Promoter’s Resource Book: a practical guide to building rural self-help groups. From the Sustainable Development Department of the FAO. Available in both html and Pdf, formats. Also in French, Spanish, Arabic

Decision making in Teams

Consensus decision making: Short description of steps and tips from the Ball Foundation Education Initiatives.

Conflict in Teams, Negotiation and Mediation

Negotiations and Resolving Conflicts: An Overview, by E. Wertheim. Good article on conflict, bargaining and negotiation.

A Bare Bones Guide to negotiation, Concise guide, by Gregory Kersten and Sunil Noronha from InterNeg group.

The Negotiating Edge. Lots of links to teambuilding, conflict managment and negotiation.

The Mediation and Dispute Resolution Resources Site, managed by Stephen Marsh. Lots of useful essays, resources and links on mediation.

Berghoff handbook for conflict transformation "a comprehensive and cumulative website resource that provides continually updated cutting-edge knowledge, experience and lessons-learned for those working in the field of transforming violent ethnopolitical conflict." Includes the useful document "Team and Organisational Development as a Means for Conflict Prevention and Resolution"

Leadership

John Adair's action centred leadership. Concise and useful description of John Adair’s leadership model based on three core management responsibilities: achieving the task, managing the team or group, and managing individuals.

The art and science of leadership, interesting set of pages by Don Clark, formerly instructor and training developer in the US Army. First chapter on concepts of leadership worth a browse.

Situational leadership model of Blanchard and Hersey. Suggests different leadership styles (supporting, coaching, delegating, directing), depending on the situation.

Leadership styles as described by Goleman (visionary, coaching, affiliative, democratic, pacesetting, commanding).

Overview of Leadership in Organizations. Extensive site (lots of linked pages) On leadership theories, leadership styles.

Leadership Definitions. Lots of definitions from the University of Exeter, Centre for Leadership Studies. From Napoleon Bonaparte to modern management theorists. Other publications also available from the Centre.

Interdisciplinary Teams

Enabling Interdisciplinary Analysis, by Leslie M. Reid, Research Geomorphologist, USDA Forest Service. Some universal findings from experience with watershed analysis in the US.

Participatory management of large interdisciplinary research teams, by Thomas Aenis and Uwe Nagel. First experiences from a rural research and development project in Germany (10 pages)

Trans- and Interdisciplinary Sciences page of the learning for sustainability website. Lead in to some nice resources (and check out the rest of the main site!)

Change Mangement

Change management toolbox. Includes tools on analysing change from perspectives of “self – team – larger systems”. Based on original toolbook by Holger Nauheimer. Site also includes forums, blogs, reviews, events and much, much more.