ThinkLets: Building Blocks for Concerted Collaboration

A thinkLet is a best practice for facilitators. ThinkLets are reusable and predictable facilitation techniques that move a group through a process toward its agreed goal. Each thinkLet contains all required knowledge to predictably and repeated invoke patterns of collaboration in groups, such as divergence, convergence, organization, evaluation, and building consensus. ThinkLets are building blocks for team process designs. They enable rapid development of sophisticated collaboration processes that can improve team productivity. Field experiences confirm that novice facilitators find it easy to master thinkLets. Facilitators who know thinkLets can transfer complex thinkLet-based process designs with as little as a few pages of documentation. This book describes about 40 thinkLets in detail. They allow facilitators to create a great variety of workshop processes that are predictable, productive, and engaging for participants.