Facilitating with Easel, with CD
Chapter One
Understanding Facilitation
In many organizations, the idea of using a neutral third party to manage and
improve meetings is now taking root. The result: the emergence of a new and
important role in which the person who manages the meeting no longer participates
in the discussion or tries to influence the outcome. Instead, he or she stays
out of the discussion in order to focus on how the meeting is being run. Instead
of offering opinions, this person provides participants with structure and tools.
Instead of promoting a point of view, he or she manages participation to insure
that everyone is being heard. Instead of making decisions and giving orders, he
or she supports the participants in identifying their own goals and developing
their own action plans.
More and more organizations are now adopting this role within their meetings.
In all of the above examples, the meeting manager was acting as a facilitator.
What Is Facilitation?
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