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Facilitating Breakthrough
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Facilitating Breakthrough

How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together

Adam Kahane
Berrett-Koehler, 2021

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9

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Organizations tend to mandate collaboration. But simply ordering people to work together is a futile approach, says organizational consultant Adam Kahane. Using several real-life, high-stakes scenarios, Kahane reveals that the secret to getting people to work together to create transformative change lies in a nuanced facilitation approach that removes obstacles to collaboration and embraces vertical and horizontal approaches. His instructive guidebook illustrates how facilitators can cultivate environments that allow transformative change to flow and flourish.

Take-Aways

  • Conventional approaches to collaboration often rely on force, which is an ineffective motivator.  
  • To foster collaboration, dismantle barriers to contribution, connection and equity.
  • The transformative facilitation model blends vertical and horizontal approaches.

About the Author

Adam Kahane has spent more than 30 years facilitating breakthroughs. He is a director of Reos Partners, a social enterprise that helps people work collaboratively toward change.

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