"In Groups at Work: Strategies and Structures for Professional Learning, authors Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman provide leaders with the tools to design and prepare productive and efficient group meetings and interactions. The seventy-eight strategies included in the book are organized into six functions reflecting the major activities that engage productive groups and lead to purposeful process design: (1) activating, (2) assessing, goal setting, and planning, (3) dialogue and discussion, (4) generating ideas, (5) summarizing and synthesizing, and (6) text and informational processing. When groups own their processes, actions, and outcomes, and share an understanding of procedures and protocols, they become more cooperative, coordinated, and skillful"--