Download or read book Facilitation Skills written by Frances Bee and published by CIPD Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are going to be keenest to use what they've just learned; the people you told, or the people you helped work it out for themselves? Which change is going to deliver the fastest results; the one that was imposed or the one that you helped a team develop and agree for itself? Facilitation is an essential skill for learning professionals and managers who want to deliver lasting and productive results. As a facilitator you can maximise performance by tapping into the experience, potential and enthusiaism of an organisation's people. By empowering individuals and teams to take responsibility for their own learning and achievements you can dramatically increase their chances of success. Frances and Roland Bee discuss the role, skills and processes of group facilitation and show you how to: - refine core skills such as rapport building, active listening and effective questioning - design learning events that are really learner-centred - use practical techniques for getting groups started, generating ideas and solving problems - overcome concerns about loss of control - handle challenging situations such as lack of engagement, cynicism and anger. One of the most valuable people in any organisation is the one who can help others solve problems, change and develop. This book gives you the skills to become that facilitator.
Download or read book Facilitation Skills Training written by Kimberly Devlin and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help them make the most out of every meeting. Rambling group discussions, tangential concerns, difficult attendees, and unclear objectives can all derail a facilitated event—and often do. But more than just learning how to avoid the pitfalls, effective facilitators ease the way for groups to achieve desired outcomes, redirect them to constructive paths, and rally commitment to action plans. Expert trainer and facilitator Kimberly Devlin has designed interactive half-day, one-day, and two-day workshops to develop the essential skills of facilitating meetings that inspire, engage, and get results. Complete with all the activities, handouts, assessments, and presentation slides you will need to accelerate learning, these programs make planning your next workshop easy, whether you are new to facilitation or a seasoned pro. About the Series The ATD Workshop Series is written for trainers by trainers, because no one knows workshops as well as the practitioners who have done it all. Each publication weaves in today’s technology and accessibility considerations and provides a wealth of new content that can be used to create a training experience like no other.
Download or read book Collaboration Explained written by Jean Tabaka and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2006-01-06 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Collaboration Explained is a deeply pragmatic book that helps agile practitioners understand and manage complex organizational and team dynamics. As an agile coach, I’ve found the combination of straightforward advice and colorful anecdotes to be invaluable in guiding and focusing interactions with my teams. Jean’s wealth of experience is conveyed in a carefully struck balance of reference guides and prose, facilitating just-in-time learning in the agile spirit. All in all, a superb resource for building stronger teams that’s fit for agile veterans and neophytes alike.” —Arlen Bankston, Lean Agile Practice Manager, CC Pace “If Agile is the new ‘what,’ then surely Collaboration is the new ‘how.’ There are many things I really like about Jean’s new book. Right at the top of the list is that I don’t have to make lists of ideas for collaboration and facilitation anymore. Jean has it all. Not only does she have those great ideas for meetings, retrospectives, and team decision-making that I need to remember, but the startling new and thought-provoking ideas are there too. And the stories, the stories, the stories! The best way to transfer wisdom. Thanks, Jean!” —Linda Rising, Independent Consultant The Hands-On Guide to Effective Collaboration in Agile Projects To succeed, an agile project demands outstanding collaboration among all its stakeholders. But great collaboration doesn’t happen by itself; it must be carefully planned and facilitated throughout the entire project lifecycle. Collaboration Explained is the first book to bring together proven, start-to-finish techniques for ensuring effective collaboration in any agile software project. Since the early days of the agile movement, Jean Tabaka has been studying and promoting collaboration in agile environments. Drawing on her unsurpassed experience, she offers clear guidelines and easy-to-use collaboration templates for every significant project event: from iteration and release planning, through project chartering, all the way through post-project retrospectives. Tabaka’s hands-on techniques are applicable to every leading agile methodology, from Extreme Programming and Scrum to Crystal Clear. Above all, they are practical: grounded in a powerful understanding of the technical, business, and human challenges you face as a project manager or development team member. · Build collaborative software development cultures, leaders, and teams · Prepare yourself to collaborate—and prepare your team · Define clear roles for each participant in promoting collaboration · Set your collaborative agenda · Master tools for organizing collaboration more efficiently · Run effective collaborative meetings—including brainstorming sessions · Promote better small-group and pair-programming collaboration · Get better information, and use it to make better decisions · Use non-abusive conflict to drive positive outcomes · Collaborate to estimate projects and schedules more accurately · Strengthen collaboration across distributed, virtual teams · Extend collaboration from individual projects to the entire development organization
Download or read book Facilitation Skills written by Dennis C. Kinlaw and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1996 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sourcebook is part of an open-ended series that covers the training topics most often found in many organizations. Instead of locking you into a prescribed 'workbook mentality, ' this sourcebook will free you from having to buy more workbooks each time you present training. This volume contains everything you need: background information on the topic, facilitator notes, training designs, participant handouts, activities, instruments, flipcharts, overheads, and resource, and it's all reproducible. Contents: -Introduction -Background -Workshop Preparation -One-Hour Facilitation Designs -Half-Day Facilitation Design -One-Day Facilitation Design -Two-Day Facilitation Design -Learning Activities -Using the Assessment Tools -Using the Rational Tools -Visual Aids.
Download or read book The Project Meeting Facilitator written by Tammy Adams and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever been involved in a project that didn’t requirea meeting? Neither have we. Well-run project meetings allow teamsto get through the maze of distractions and obstacles to achieveresults. Unfortunately, many project meetings aren’twell-run—they are viewed, by team members, as unproductive,tedious, wastes of precious time. But you can change that. TheProject Meeting Facilitator contains practical techniques andpractices that will help you facilitate our meetings moreeffectively, transforming them into well-planned, well-managedjourneys that engage the team while achieving the intended goals.
Download or read book Advanced Facilitation Strategies written by Ingrid Bens and published by Wiley + ORM. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ingrid Bens, the author of the best-selling book Facilitating with Ease!, comes the next-step resource for project leaders, managers, community leaders, teachers, and other facilitators who want to hone their skills in order to deal with complex situations. Advanced Facilitation Strategies is a field guide that offers practical strategies and techniques for working with challenging everyday situations. These proven strategies and techniques are based on experience gleaned from hundreds of facilitated activities in organizations of all sizes and in all sectors. Both novice and seasoned facilitators who have had firsthand experience designing and leading meetings will benefit from this reality-based playbook. Advanced Facilitation Strategies is filled with the information facilitators need to Become better at diagnosing facilitation assignments and creating effective process designs Broaden their repertoire of tools to make impromptu design changes whenever they are needed Learn to be more resilient and confident when dealing with dysfunctional situations and difficult people.
Download or read book Facilitating with Ease written by Ingrid Bens and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to running productive meetings Facilitating With Ease! has become the go-to handbook for those who lead meetings, training, and other business gatherings. Packed with information, effective practices, and invaluable advice, this book is the comprehensive handbook for anyone who believes meetings should be productive, relevant, and as short as possible. Dozens of exercises, surveys, and checklists will help transform anyone into a skilled facilitator, and clear, actionable guidance makes implementation a breeze. This new fourth edition includes a new chapter on questioning, plus new material surrounding diversity, globalization, technology, feedback, distance teams, difficult executives, diverse locations, personal growth, meeting management, and much more. With in-depth, expert guidance from planning to closing, this book provides facilitators with an invaluable resource for learning or training. Before you run another meeting, discover the practices, processes, and techniques that turn you from a referee to an effective facilitator. This book provides a wealth of tools and insights that you can put into action today. Run productive meetings that get real results Keep discussions on track and facilitate the exchange of ideas Resolve conflict and deal with difficult individuals Train leaders and others to facilitate effectively Poorly-run meetings are an interruption in the day, and accomplish little other than putting everyone behind in their “real” work. On the other hand, a meeting run by an effective facilitator makes everyone’s job easier; decisions get made, strategies are improved, answers are given, and new ideas bubble to the surface. A productive meeting makes everyone happy, and results in real benefits that spread throughout the organization. Facilitating With Ease! is the skill-building guide to running great meetings with confidence and results.
Download or read book Developing Facilitation Skills written by Patricia Prendiville and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Facilitation at a Glance written by Ingrid Bens and published by Goal/QPC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows the techniques of facilitation in action. Presents real-life examples of common pitfalls and demonstrates the facilitation strategies needed to avoid them.
Download or read book Facilitation Skills for Team Leaders Leading Organized Teams to Greater Productivity written by Charles L. Martin and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a practical hands-on guide about teamwork in business-not how to work in teams or how to delegate in teams but how to facilitate organised teams as they solve complex and challenging problems and as they develop innovative ways to enhance productivity. Many businesses find the transition to a team based organisation difficult. This book offers useful concepts and tools with exercises to check for understanding and to develop skills. Table of contents: * Part 1: Understanding facilitation (what is facilitation, what do facilitators do, how facilitation differs from training and presenting, the facilitator - managing structure, not content) * Part 2: Team involvement, decision making and dynamics (encouraging participation, rules for asking non-threatening questions, types of questions to ask, body language and facilitation, making decisions, six-step problem-solving process, getting group agreement, the importance of preparation, running an effective team meeting, team life cycles, handling different team members, what to do if the group gets stuck) * Part 3: Facilitation tools (essential tools) * Part 4: Crossword facilitation (memory test exercise, fast-food flowchart, crossword puzzle solution).
Download or read book The Secrets of Facilitation written by Michael Wilkinson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secrets of Facilitation delivers a clear vision of facilitation excellence and reveals the specific techniques effective facilitators use to produce consistent, repeatable results with groups. Author Michael Wilkinson has trained thousands of managers, mediators, analysts, and consultants around the world to apply the power of SMART (Structured Meeting And Relating Techniques) facilitation to achieve amazing results with teams and task forces. He shows how anyone can use these proven group techniques in conflict resolution, consulting, managing, presenting, teaching, planning, selling, and other professional as well as personal situations.
Download or read book Rees Trio How to Lead Work Teams written by Fran Rees and published by Pfeiffer. This book was released on 1991-05-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve group results as a successful leader-facilitator Now you can reap the benefits of a more facilitative, participative style of leadership! How to Lead Work Teams will help you increase cooperation and job satisfaction, raise productivity and quality levels, and gain a more favorable view of your leadership abilities through facilitation. It describes exactly what facilitation is and what it is not and how to do it effectively. It shows you how to: Involve others, build consensus, and get commitment Help others solve problems and make decisions Use the knowledge and experience of all employees Develop and lead a team Use group process to run effective team meetings This book is especially helpful for someone who is new to managing or leading a team. It will also help experienced team leaders refine the role of leader-facilitator. And it will help team members understand how facilitation works and how they can enhance the process. To read the first chapter from this book, click here.
Download or read book Results Based Facilitation written by Jolie Pillsbury and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Results Based Facilitation (RBF) is an approach to designing, participating in, and facilitating meetings to get results. The RBF approach helps groups move from talk to action by focusing on meeting results and by developing an accountability framework for action commitments. The RBF process is designed to produce actions that lead to results within programs, organizations, and communities. Results Based Facilitation: An Introduction provides an overview of RBF theory and practice methods and a brief description of the four foundation competencies. The 2nd Edition has been updated and reformatted for easier reading.
Download or read book Designing the Conversation written by Russ Unger and published by New Riders. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facilitation skills are the foundation of every successful design practice, yet training on this core competency has been largely unavailable—until now. Designing the Conversation: Techniques for Successful Facilitation is a complete guide to developing the facilitation skills you need to communicate effectively and design fully engaging experiences. Learn to take control as Russ Unger, Brad Nunnally, and Dan Willis show you how to use your skills as a facilitator to deftly extract information from different types of people in various scenarios and address any problems and needs that arise along the way. With this book, you will learn how to: Bring together different cross-functional project teams, stakeholders, and clients while balancing their needs, goals, and requirements with those of users Prepare for activities through agenda setting, planning for different types of personalities, and identifying the method of practicing that works best for you Perform group facilitation in workshops, brainstorming sessions, and focus groups Manage individual facilitation activities through interviews, usability testing, sales calls, and mentoring Conduct one-to-many facilitation activities such as presentations, virtual seminars, and lectures Understand how to manage Q & A from audiences of all sizes
Download or read book The Skilled Facilitator written by Roger M. Schwarz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-10-08 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was published in 1994, Roger Schwarz's The SkilledFacilitator earned widespread critical acclaim and became alandmark in the field. The book is a classic work for consultants,facilitators, managers, leaders, trainers, and coaches--anyonewhose role is to facilitate and guide groups toward realizing theircreative and problem-solving potential. This thoroughly revisededition provides the essential materials for anyone that workswithin the field of facilitation and includes simple but effectiveground rules for group interaction. Filled with illustrativeexamples, the book contains proven techniques for starting meetingson the right foot and ending them positively and decisively. Thisimportant resource also offers practical methods for handlingemotions when they arise in a group and offers a diagnosticapproach for identifying and solving problems that can underminethe group process.
Download or read book Facilitating the Project Lifecycle written by Janet A. Means and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-08-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step by step, Facilitating the Project Lifecycle guides theproject manager/facilitator in making smart choices about when andhow to pull key talent together to spell success for the projectand ultimately the organization. The authors will help youunderstand the benefits of using facilitated group work sessions toget real work done during a project and get it done better and moreefficiently than more traditional individual work approaches. Inaddition, the book includes: Recommendations for capitalizing on group knowledge toaccelerate the building of key project deliverables and ensuretheir quality as they are built A work session structure for planning, delivering, andfollowing up facilitated work sessions Guides for building key project deliverables Sample agendas Proven techniques for managing the group dynamics
Download or read book The Adaptive School written by Robert J. Garmston and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 3rd edition of the award winning Adaptive Schools Sourcebook provides both a theoretical and practical guide for groups and teams to develop and focus their collaborative energies to improve teaching practices and enhance student-learning outcomes. In five sections: Becoming Adaptive, Collaboration Matters, Meetings are Teachers’ Work, Resources for Inquiry, and Conflict, Change and Community, the authors draw on decades of personal experiences in schools and research from multiple disciplines to present powerful tools and useful templates for structuring the work of productive professional communities in schools. Readers will learn ways to develop and sustain the fundamental elements for enhancing social capital in schools: distinguishing between dialogue and discussion, establishing seven norms of collaboration, automating language patterns for inquiry and problem solving, facilitating groups and data teams, engaging in productive conflict, and building community. The book offers links to video clips demonstrating key skills, inventories for assessing groups, instruments for assessing personal skills, and a collection of over 150 meeting strategies and facilitator moves for engaging group members in productive interactions.
