Noted Author, Business Consultant, and Communication Expert Joseph Folger visits Bay Area
Joseph Folger, co-author of the recently published revised edition of The Promise of Mediation (2005) will be in San Jose conducting a team facilitation training and will be available for interviews on conflict intervention, team building, and communication skills.
(PRWEB) May 31, 2005
What:
Joseph Folger, co-author of the recently published revised edition of The Promise of Mediation (2005) will be in San Jose conducting a team facilitation training and will be available for interviews on conflict intervention, team building, and communication skills.
Who:
Joseph Folger is a professor of Adult and Organizational Development at Temple University in Philadelphia and a noted consultant to several Global and Fortune 500 corporations (including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, IBM, General Electric Capital Corporation, Standard and Poors, Wyeth-Ayerst, and the US Department of Education).
Author of the award winning volumes Working Through Conflict: Strategies for Relationships, Groups and Organizations and co-author of the Promise of Mediation: The Transformative Approach to Conflict, Folger has helped design and establish several major conflict intervention programs, including the nationally recognized United States Postal Service mediation program, REDRESS. He is co-founder of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and a senior consultant with Communication Research Associates, where he conducts communication skills training, and coaching and conflict intervention.
When:
Thursday June 2, 2005. Please pre-arrange interviews.
Where:
Available for in-person (Bay Area) or telephone interviews.
Why:
In businesses, non-profits, groups, and organizations, sustaining teams has become critical in accomplishing organizational goals. Folger is conducting a one-day workshop in San Jose that will help executives, managers, and outside consultants build skills to transform team members' communication and interpersonal interaction.
Based on the transformative framework of conflict intervention, and FolgerÂ’s work with R. Baruch Bush in the seminal Promise of Mediation, the workshop is designed to help attendees intervene in and transform team interaction. Participants will explore ways to work with teams while maintaining a clear vision of the third party's role in addressing conflict, developing advanced group facilitation skills, and understanding how organizational culture and climate impact the design of team development work.
For in-depth information on transformative theory and practice as described by Folger and Bush, visit the website for the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation at www. transformativemediation. org.
For more information on the team facilitation training being offered in San Jose go to: www. oneroofcom. com.
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