Download or read book The Wilder Nonprofit Field Guide to Conducting Successful Focus Groups written by Judith Sharken Simon and published by Fieldstone Alliance. This book was released on 1999 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical and easy to use, Conducting Successful Focus Groups gives you the practical guidance to do focus groups using little more than staff or volunteer time and the cost of refreshments. In ten easy-to-follow steps, you'll learn how to plan and conduct focus groups and, most importantly, how to put the results into action: 1. Create a focused purpose statement 2. Set up a realistic timeline 3. Decide who and how many participants to invite 4. Generate questions that'll get the information you need 5. Write a focus group script 6. Choose a facilitator 7. Find a location that puts people at ease 8. Run the focus group 9. Put the results into action. Each step is followed by a task statement that sums up what you need to do before moving on. Examples, worksheets, answers to frequently asked questions, and an annotated bibliography make the job even easier. People feel flattered when you ask for their opinions; in fact, most love to tell you what they think. With Conducting Successful Focus Groups, you'll have the tools to use focus groups effectively and make better-informed plans.
Download or read book The Fieldstone Alliance Nonprofit Guide to Conducting Successful Focus Groups written by Judith Sharken Simon and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999-01-15 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical and easy to use, Conducting Successful Focus Groups gives you the practical guidance to do focus groups using little more than staff or volunteer time and the cost of refreshments. In ten easy-to-follow steps, you'll learn how to plan and conduct focus groups and, most importantly, how to put the results into action: 1. Create a focused purpose statement 2. Set up a realistic timeline 3. Decide who and how many participants to invite 4. Generate questions that'll get the information you need 5. Write a focus group script 6. Choose a facilitator 7. Find a location that puts people at ease 8. Run the focus group 9. Put the results into action. Each step is followed by a task statement that sums up what you need to do before moving on. Examples, worksheets, answers to frequently asked questions, and an annotated bibliography make the job even easier. People feel flattered when you ask for their opinions; in fact, most love to tell you what they think. With Conducting Successful Focus Groups, you'll have the tools to use focus groups effectively and make better-informed plans.
Download or read book The Wilder Nonprofit Field Guide to Developing Effective Teams written by Beth Gilbertsen and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proven methods for smoother and more productive teamwork Teamwork is rarely simple, easy, or natural. It’s not enough to announce “we’re a team” and expect results. The Fieldstone Nonprofit Guide to Developing Effective Teams is a collection of the best tried-and-true team-building methods. All types of nonprofits, community groups, volunteers, and board members can benefit from the tips and processes in this guide. Plus, no matter what role you play on the team, you can use this guide and help bolster your team’s success. Tools for team start-up To help your team get going, this guide gives you seven tools and techniques for: Writing a team mission statement Setting team goals Conducting effective team meetings p Creating ground rules Decision making in teams Creating team project plans Developing team spirit. Tools for team maintenance Even the best teams struggle with challenges. This guide will help you deal with predictable problems and improve teamwork at any stage of your team’s development. You’ll find specific guidance for: Improving team meetings Evaluating overall team effectiveness Resolving conflict within a team Managing conflict between two teams Clarifying roles and responsibilities Dealing with performance problems Communicating between meetings. With a few tools and a little guidance, most groups of people who want to become a team can do it. Developing Effective Teams is just the help you need!
Download or read book The Wilder Nonprofit Field Guide to Crafting Effective Mission and Vision Statements written by Emil Angelica and published by Fieldstone Alliance. This book was released on 2001 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bring focus and direction to your work Too often, if you ask four people in a nonprofit what their organization's mission is, you'll get four different answers. Organizations without clearly defined and agreed-to mission and vision statements frequently find themselves adrift at sea, in real financial trouble, and unable to make an ongoing, positive impact on the community. But an effective mission and vision statement can help an organization unify services and create a consistent approach to new program development. Crafting Effective Mission and Vision Statements will help your organization develop (or revise) mission and vision statements that bring focus and direction to your work. With orderly, easy-to-follow steps, this engaging guide helps you: Build ownership for the mission and vision statements among board and staff Create a common understanding of your organization's goals Understand how mission and vision statements differ and how to use both for greatest benefit Develop a mission statement that captures exactly what your organization does Create a vision statement based on stakeholders' ideas and the organization's history, capacity for growth, and fundraising potential Use this guide to create mission and vision statements that help your organization stay focused and keep it moving toward a positive future.
Download or read book Focus Groups written by Graham R. Walden and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-07-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first of two volumes that address the most recent ten years (1997-2006) of focus group studies and research literature. Volume one provides coverage of the arts and humanities, social sciences, and the nonmedical sciences, and volume two concentrates on the medical and health sciences. These volumes cover the English-language academic literature (books, chapters in books, journal articles, and significant pamphlets) available in libraries via interlibrary loan and online. A variety of materials are included: instructional guides, handbooks, reference works, textbooks, and academic journal literature. In Focus Groups, Volume I, the following subject disciplines have been considered: in the arts and humanities_linguistics, music, religion, and sports and leisure studies; in the social sciences_anthropology, business, cartography, communication, demography, education, law, library science, political science, psychology, and sociology; and in the non-medical sciences_agriculture, biology, engineering, environmental sciences, and physics. The selected entries have a minimum of four pages, and include 29 books, 50 book chapters, 349 articles, and 10 pamphlets, for a total of 438 entries. An appendix includes the titles of the 245 journals cited, along with the appropriate entry numbers for each. Author and subject indexes provide access to the contents, with the subject index providing access to unique terms. The detailed contents pages are designed to enable the reader to quickly find appropriate entries through the use of extensive and detailed subheadings.
Download or read book Focus Groups written by Richard A. Krueger and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fourth Edition of the bestselling Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research offers an easy-to-ready overview of sound focus group practices. Authors Richard A. Krueger & Mary Anne Casey describe how one can set up and conduct quality and effective focus group interviews. The process depicted is unbiased, non-judgmental and is respectful of all views. It is a deliberate and systematic way of listening that is helpful to public and private organizations as they listen to stakeholders, customers, and employees. This book cuts through the theory and gives hand-on advice to those who are seeking to actually conduct a focus group. It is most helpful for conducting focus groups for research or evaluation with public, non-profit, educational, health, human service, and religious organizations. Key Features Offers the latest on telephone and Internet focus groups Provides suggested focus group questions that help students construct quality questions that engage participants and produce dependable and valid results. Gives solid information on organizational focus groups Presents ways on how to recruit participants to the focus group Contains a number of practical tips that actually work. It is written for the person who has to plan, recruit, develop questions, moderate, analyze and report the results. Incorporates icons throughout the book that offer tips, examples, additional resources and others bits of practical information. Intended Audience This book is appropriate for a variety of research methods and evaluation courses in departments such as education, sociology, political science, journalism, business & marketing, public administration, and public health.
Download or read book The Practical Handbook and Guide to Focus Group Research Second Edition written by Thomas L. Greenbaum and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1993-03-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1992, more than 125,000 focus groups--randomly selected individuals, led by a moderator, whose discussion of a particular product provides market data for the manufacturer--will be held in the U.S. Greenbaum, who has worked with focus groups for over 20 years, here shares the latest information on conducting them effectively.
Download or read book Successful Focus Groups written by David L. Morgan and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1993-04-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Successful Focus Groups is a state-of-the-art text on focus group research methods. . . . Successful Focus Groups is a well-written document with clearly presented reasons why researchers should follow the guide lines presented. Additionally, this text is groundbreaking in its focus on topics that will advance knowledge of focus group research methods. . . . an improvement over prior treatises on focus groups. . . . Successful Focus Groups is clearly one of the most helpful treatises on focus group research. . . . this text will advance the quality of focus group research. I recommend Successful Focus Groups to anyone interested in learning about doing focus group research." --Susan A. Stearns in Qualitative Studies in Education "There is original material and the overall breadth and ease of presentation of the material make this the most comprehensive and readable book produced so far on the subject. . . . In many of the chapters, examples from actual studies are used to illustrate the basics or discuss particular issues involved in the approach. This grounding of the discussion is particularly appealing." --Contemporary Sociology "This book systematically addresses the issues, practice, wisdom, and problems in conducting focus groups. It is an integrated collection of articles representing the state of the art in focus group applications. It covers the basic principles of when and how to use focus groups, the applicability of focus group interviews to survey research and other methods, general issues in the use of focus groups, the specific problems of focus groups with different populations or settings, and an agenda for future development of the method." --Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique "Anyone who is considering using focus group interviews as a tool in social science research or as a means to develop and validate another research methodology will find this text quite useful. This well-written and edited text offers practical advice, methodologic considerations, and actual examples of how to plan, conduct, and analyze focus group research. It offers a practical discussion on the uses and limitations of focus group interviews as a research tool." --Journal of Nutrition Education While various books introduce the basics of focus groups, Successful Focus Groups is the first volume to systematically address the issues, practice wisdom, and problems in conducting focus groups from the perspective of those who have done the most work using these methods in social science settings. The result is a well-integrated collection of articles that represents the state-of-the-art in focus group applications, written by a knowledgeable, interdisciplinary group of scholars. The chapters cover the basic principles of when and how to use focus groups, the applicability of focus group interviews to survey research and other methods, general issues in the use of focus groups, the specific problems of focus groups with different populations or settings, and an agenda for future development of the method. Authoritative and readable, this volume is essential reading for social scientists now using, or contemplating, focus groups in their research, and a useful, practical text for students of research methods.
Download or read book Moderating Focus Groups written by Thomas L. Greenbaum and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1999-11-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed specifically for the needs of the focus group moderator, this comprehensive guide covers everything from pre-session participant recruitment to post-session reporting. In addition, the author includes a wealth of advanced and new techniques, such as those for managing group dynamics, energizing a tired group, projective techniques, personality association and position fixing. Extremely practical and well-written, the book includes chapter summaries and a helpful glossary.
Download or read book Focus Groups written by Richard A. Krueger and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1988-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focus Group: A Practical Guide for Applied Research was the standard for learning how to conduct a focus group. This highly acclaimed book in its third edition includes the following updates and improvements: "" "- Vignettes" drawn from small and large focus groups that illustrate problems that come up and effective ways to resolve the issues. "" "- Designing questions" for asking effective questions to draw out a group and how to refine them based on the group's responses. "" "- Collaborative Approach" updated to address the latest ways to implement the empowerment and action research. "" "- Budgeting" how to more effectively budget for a focus group "" "- Coding" how to more effectively use existing software packages to code and analyze the results of a focus group. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Getting the Message Out written by and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Focus Group Guidebook written by David L. Morgan and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Focus Group Guide book is part of the six-volume Focus Group Kit, which offers the information needed to conduct a state-of-the-art focus group, from the initial planning stages through to analysing and reporting the data.
Download or read book Understanding Focus Group Discussions written by Monique M. Hennink and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume guides readers on practical and theoretical considerations in conducting focus group research. Separate chapters are devoted to writing focus group methods and presenting findings. Strategies for assessing the quality of focus group research are included and case study examples of field research are provided throughout.
Download or read book The Wilder Nonprofit Field Guide to Conducting Community Forums written by Carol A. Lukas and published by Fieldstone Alliance. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step-by-step instructions to plan and carry out exciting, successful community fourms that will educate the public, build consensus, focus action, or influence policy.
Download or read book Moderating Focus Groups written by Richard A. Krueger and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 4 of this series is indispensable for all wishing to improve their focus group moderating skills. This book provides an overview of critical skills needed by moderators, the skills moderators use, & strategies for handling difficult situations.
Download or read book The Focus Group written by Jane Farley Templeton and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a framework for staging interview sessions, interpreting their results and using them in marketing strategies. This book contains topics that include the second coming of focus groups in marketing and market research; ethics in using focus groups; effective use of focus groups; and conflict resolution in focus groups.
Download or read book Focus Groups written by Gloria E. Bader and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
