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Facilitating with Ease!: Core Skills for Facilitators, Team Leaders and Members, Managers, Consultants, and Trainers
By: Ingrid BenseBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: Jossey-Bass
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Facilitating with Ease! is an updated version of the best-selling resource that offers easy-to-follow instructions, techniques, and hands-on tools that team leaders, consultants, supervisors, and managers have used to learn the basics of facilitation. Complete with worksheets on CD-ROM that can be customized to fit your personal needs, it's a complete facilitation workshop in a take-home format. Facilitating with Ease! shows you how to run productive meetings with skill and authority and includes the information needed to train others in your organization to become confident facilitators as well. The book is filled with dozens of exercises, surveys, and checklists that can be used to transform anyone into an effective facilitator.
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| Title of Business & Economics eBook: Facilitating with Ease!: Core Skills for Facilitators, Team Leaders and Members, Managers, Consultants, and Trainers | |
| Release Date: 02-08-2005 | |
| Publisher: Jossey-Bass |
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Facilitating with Ease!: Core Skills for Facilitators, Team Leaders and Members, Managers, Consultants, and Trainers
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?
Facilitation is a way of providing leadership without taking the reins. It's the facilitator's job to get others to assume responsibility and take the lead.
Here's an example: Your employees bring you a problem, but instead of offering them solutions, you offer them a method with which they can develop their own answers. You attend the meetings to guide the members through their discussions, step-by-step, encouraging them to reach their own conclusions.
Rather than being a player, a facilitator acts more like a referee. That means you watch the action, more than participate in it. You control which activities happen. You keep your finger on th
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