Collaboration Handbook
Creating, Sustaining and Enjoying the Journey
By M. Winer and K. Ray of the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation: Based on extensive research of “what works” in collaborative efforts. Provides alternative approaches, success factors and a step-by-step guide to collaboration. 178 pages. ©1994. | Available formats: Book, Kindle eBook
Collective Visioning
How Groups Can Work Together for a Just and Sustainable Future
By Linda Stout: This book teaches readers how to create a vision of what they want the world to look like, and then how to work together to make it happen. 198 pages. ©2007. | Available formats: Book, Kindle eBook
Dealing with People You Can’t Stand
How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst
By Rick Kirschner and Rick Brinkman: Whether you’re dealing with a coworker trying to take credit for your work or a family member who knows no personal bounds, this book gives you the tools to bring out the best in people at their worst. 288 pages. ©2012. | Available formats: Book, Kindle eBook
Difficult Conversations
How to Discuss What Matters Most
By Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen: This book, filled with examples, walks you through a step-by-step approach to conducting the toughest conversations with less stress and more success. A New York Times Business Best Seller. 250 pages. ©2010. | Available formats: Book, Kindle eBook
Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making
Third Edition
By Sam Kaner: Meetings should be much more than merely an occasion for solving a problem. Every meeting is also an opportunity to build the capacity of the group. This book guides readers through the struggle and the satisfaction of creating effective... 432 pages. ©2014. | Available formats: Book
Getting to YES
Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
By Roger Fisher and William Ury: A guide to negotiation from members of the Harvard Negotiation Project. This book offers a strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements. 240 pages. ©2011. | Available formats: Book, Audio CD, Kindle eBook
Made to Stick
Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
By Chip Heath and Dan Heath: Effective leaders need to be effective communicators. This book examines the principles of “sticky” (the art of making ideas memorable). It’s an easy read packed with examples—both successes and failures from serious to... 291 pages. ©2007. | Available formats: Book, Audio CD, Kindle eBook, Spanish
Make the Impossible Possible
One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary
By Bill Strickland: This inspirational book showcases the lessons learned by Bill Strickland as he worked with disadvantaged children and adults in Pittsburgh, Penn., through the jobs training center and community arts program he founded. “I’m not a... 204 pages. ©2009. | Available formats: Book, Kindle eBook
Mentoring for Meaningful Results
Asset-building Tips, Tools, and Activities for Youth and Adults
By Kristi Probst: Thinking of starting a new mentoring program or breathing life into an old one? More than 50 reproducible materials provide program leaders with ready-made tools. 120 pages. ©2006. | Available formats: Book
People Patterns 2nd Edition
By Stephen Montgomery: A very entertaining book that explores four temperaments and how they influence personal relationships. 136 pages. ©2011. | Available formats: Book