Facilitating business book club

If you are planning to facilitate a book club or reading group discussion, here are a few ideas to help your discussion go smoothly. The executive guide to facilitating strategy provides executives, leaders and facilitators with a stepbystep resource for guiding their team through all phases of the strategic planning process from gaining the teams buyin to do planning and identify strategic issues, all the way through organization alignment, implementation, monitoring. Employee development through reading start a book club forbes. Sometimes one person dominates the airwaves and other times the conversation gets stalled by a wall of silence. When youre starting a book club it helps to set some ground rules to help ensure that all of your attendees feel welcome and want to return. Facilitating book club discussion with the purpose of taking literary interaction to personal interaction will make the experience significant and profitable for your group. It is a good idea to plan on finishing the book a little earlier than you might otherwise so that you have time to think about it and prepare before your book club meets. Great books foundation is an organization designed to help. Each member should, at the very least, be able to communicate with one another via email. Ive been in a lot of book clubs, and i know its not always easy to get a conversation going on a book.

Preparation put together a list of questions about the reading that you can use to get the discussion started, or to prompt the group if discussion starts to lag. Your nonclub colleagues will definitely appreciate it. Internet marketing firm infinite communications, inc. Last night, i had the pleasure of facilitating the 1st discussion group of the pt book club started by updoc medias own, dr.

The official launch of book club central took place during the presidents program at the ala annual conference and exhibition in chicago on saturday, june 24, 2017. Why book clubs are the new business musthave published september 18, 2017 by mark watkins. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. If youve ever dreamed of starting a book club, but worried you didnt have the right space to do it in, weve got some great news for you. Nonprofit, personal development, and business book club ideas 1. Score a books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. But there is more to starting a book club than you might think. Each meeting will focus on a business book and will include a guest facilitator for each session, based on the book. Select a number of questions, write each on an index card, and distribute. The extraordinary business book club for writers and. Facilitation serves the needs of any group who are meeting with a common purpose, whether it be making a decision, solving a problem, or.

How to start a book club that doesnt suck book riot. Other times, the focus might be something more general like leadership practices. And somehow the experience is not complete until youve shared your thoughts with someone else that. Crossfunctional book club members for company team building and the crossfunctional viewpoint are. Here are 14 book club ideas to encourage your team to continue to professionally and personally develop. Be clear that the purpose of the leader is to facilitate discussion by asking. The facilitator impacts and guides the process but does not give input on the content of a meeting that comes from the participants. Book recommendations for a company book club focused on digital marketing and individual career success.

Starting a business book club university of michigan. Use specific passages from the book as evidence for your ideas. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the mindful. Adult programs will be starting up again soon, and this year will be my third year leading our small but dedicated book discussion group. Your library makes meeting rooms available as well as a theater you could use for bookthemed films. Stan initiated the group several years ago to convene friends, diversify his own. Knowing how to run a company book club is important. Book club guidelines and best practices pueblo city. Find over 20 business book club groups with 4193 members near you and meet people in your local community who share your interests. Fueled in part by oprah and others, the concept of reading a book then gathering with others who have read the same book has become cool again.

Of course, some book clubs are purely recreational. Litcourse 3 has a good discussion of close reading. I select books based on business topics im particularly interested in, and themes that are relevant to current events within our company. When the group completes the book, select the next book. This helps for bigger book clubs made up of more than 15 people.

This is a literary analysis technique called close reading. Book clubs have been quite a rage over the last few years. The club is the inside story of how the english premier league became the richest and most popular sports product on the planet if you love business and sports, it. Book selection ask your library for suggestions andor help in providing books and related films. Book club central, or bcc, will bring a world of information to book lovers, book clubs, libraries, and anyone who wants to increase their enjoyment of reading. This may seem obvious, but it is the most important step, so it is worth stating. Book clubs at work can play a number of different roles.

Its also your job to prevent people from talking over each other. If there is a need, refresh peoples memories on your groups ground rules not all of them, just any where there have been issues. Seven roles for facilitating leader development kindle edition by silsbee, doug. Crossfunctional book club members for company team building and the crossfunctional viewpoint are preferred in many employee book clubs. Ive found that the best book club discussion questions are ones that are openended and that get people to share their personal opinions. Whats extraordinary about the extraordinary business book club. Packed with information, effective practices, and invaluable advice, this book is the comprehensive handbook for anyone who believes meetings. Facilitating the comeback book club part 1 from bliss to. Research tells us that the best way to remember new ideas and put them into action is to share our thoughts and ideas with. Sometimes, the focus is professional development in a particular area. Here are my top 11 recommendations on books related to facilitation. Having established rules can be especially important if you are starting a book club thats open to the general public.

Every business desires leaders, and the secret is, every business can grow leaders. Michael earned a bachelor of business administration from the university of texas at arlington and is a graduate of the federal executive institute. Personally, i joined the group knowing just one person, but i have grown very fond of everyone involved. Book clubs can be powerful tools, providing insights into not only how we partake of literature, but how we let it affect our connections with god and the world around us. Here are some tips and insights about what has worked well for me. Even though we are indeed an entrepreneurial business book club, we do agree that from time to time its a good idea to read things that are less closely related to business. The other impact ive seen is that our staff is proud of the fact that we have a book club and make reference to it and what theyve learned in business meetings and internally. Sometimes a casual chitchat can turn into a heated debate, so stay on your toes and arbitrate when needed. Browse the following list as a team and vote on a favorite to get started. Looking for a way to share information with employees and develop their knowledge on the job. Guest facilitators will include business women from the doylestown and bucks county community. This type of prework prepares participants to take full advantage of the meeting by thinking ahead about the content, formulating ideas or getting to. Sometimes, the focus is professional development in a particular. Join us for a book discussion group for women in business.

Take notes or mark passages that strike youpassages you find significant, funny, or insightful. Starting a business book club good books challenge. Implementing a workplace book club is a lowcost way to boost employee engagement while enabling employees to execute your business. However, you can leverage some great inquiry techniques to facilitate conversations an. He is the founder and leader of a leadership book club for his offices management team. Someone needs to be responsible for facilitating the conversations and we suggest that person be you. One advantage of voting is that, if it turns out to be a dud, frustration is less common. Nonprofit, personal development, and business book club ideas. If there is any business to discuss, such as picking books for future meetings, you may want to cover these points before the discussion starts in case people need to leave quickly at the end. Bookclub organizations association of book group readers and leaders agbrl is also known as the association of professional book club facilitators, and is an information clearinghouse for readers, individuals and book groups.

One of my favorite regular activities is participating in a book club called six pillars, hosted by my friend stan. Pick out a specific passage from the book description, an idea, a line of. Ask members for their cell phone numbers and email addresses. Looking for a fun way to enjoy books and meet new people. Some of the rules may seem like common sense but making sure everyone is on the same page helps avoid unnecessary conflict. Running a book club at your workplace can be an incredibly fulfilling and refreshing experience. Even if your book club is on the smaller side, this still helps for people who tend to. Here are 14 book club ideas to ensure you and your team continue to. Choose one question at a time and toss it out to the group.

Or, the conversation goes round and round without a clear way forward. If youre looking for a fun, relaxed and often entertaining way to expand your social circles and your literary prowess, few methods can compare to the book club. A new year is just around the corner, and people everywhere are looking for ways to make next year better than this one. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that has made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself. Start with why by simon sinek was the topic of the night. The executive guide to facilitating strategy by michael. Send an email to the company announcing the next book and soliciting members for the next round of the book club. The business book club, much like the modern business world, benefits greatly from the use of technology. Facilitation in business, organizational development od, and in consensus decisionmaking refers to the process of designing and running a successful meeting facilitation concerns itself with all the tasks needed to run a productive and impartial meeting. Facilitating the comeback book club part 1 from bliss to trauma and back to bliss join betsy muller, author of amazon bestseller, the comeback an energy makeover love story live on zoom for a deeper discussion, including questions from part 1 of the new discussion guide. So youre probably willing to do the work to ensure that the book club is interesting and well attended. And somehow the experience is not complete until youve shared your thoughts with someone else that has read the book.