Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #138736 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From the Inside Flap
If you need to facilitate productive, effective meetings with skill and authority, then this package is definitely for you. Based on fifteen years of in–the–field experience, it contains the same easy–to–follow instructions, techniques, and hands–on tools the author has used to teach thousands of team leaders, consultants, supervisors, and beginning managers how to facilitate with ease. Complete with worksheets on CD–ROM that can be customized to fit your personal needs, it′s a complete facilitation workshop in take–home form.

From the Back Cover
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. This revised edition features extensive updates and a wealth of new material and includes

• The core beliefs and practices of facilitation
• Best and worst practices of facilitators
• A four–level competency assessment
• A description of all the steps in the facilitation process—assessment, design, feedback, refinement, and final preparation
• Information on high–participation techniques
• Six methods for reaching decisions
• Ideas for giving and receiving feedback
• Strategies for handling both conflict and resistance
• Ideas for effective meeting management
• The tools that are fundamental to all facilitation activities, such as  visioning, brainstorming, gap analysis, decision grids, priority setting, systematic problem solving, and more
• Ten sample process designs, complete with facilitator notes

About the Author
Ingrid Bens is a consultant, speaker, and trainer who specializes in facilitation skills, team building, conflict management, employee participation, and organizational change. She is a partner in the consulting firm Participative Dynamics.

Customer Reviews

A practical book full of ideas, techniques and tips.
I found this book to be a practical source of ideas and suggestions which I found pragmatic and useable. The reproducible sections are also worthy of mention as there are some handy documents, checklists and suggestions which can be drawn upon from here.