Facilitator’s Top Prompts to Warm Up Your Workshops & Encourage Teamwork (with 100+ Effective Icebreaker Questions)

START YOUR WORKSHOPS WITH MAXIMUM PARTICIPATION

Imagine a workshop where everyone is on board and ready to share their brilliance.

Creating that environment isn’t just about how detailed your session plan is or how much content you can squeeze in - it's about connection.

The best facilitators know this. That’s why they use icebreaker questions to start off right.

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A Comprehensive Resource for Consultants, Facilitators, Coaches, and Trainers

Help groups deliver results with an updated approach to facilitation and consulting

The Skilled Facilitator: A Comprehensive Resource for Consultants, Facilitators, Trainers, and Coaches, Third Edition is a fundamental resource for consultants, facilitators, coaches, trainers, and anyone who helps groups realise their creative and problem-solving potential. 

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This book is an innovative, modern toolkit to help you grow and succeed.

It provides entrepreneurs, executives and business leaders with invaluable insight, advice and techniques to negotiate the rocky terrain of the business world.

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Learn how exceptional leadership transforms ordinary teams into high-performing organisations.

In It's Your Ship, Michael Abrashoff shares practical management techniques developed while commanding the USS Benfold, offering valuable lessons in communication, accountability, employee engagement, and organisational success. An essential read for managers, business leaders, entrepreneurs, and anyone looking to improve leadership skills.

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What would happen if a leadership expert were willing to distill everything he’s learned in his 30+ years of experience into a handful of life-changing principles just for you?

It would change your life.

Internationally-recognized leadership expert and bestselling author John C. Maxwell wrote his million-seller The 21 Laws of Leadership over ten years ago. Now, this expanded and updated edition of one of the most trusted and referenced leadership books features revised content that is fundamental to any leader.

 

...How IBM, Proctor & Gamble and Others Design for Success

Organization structures do not fail, says Jay Galbraith, but management fails at implementing them correctly.

This is why, he explains, the idea that the matrix does not work still exists today, even among people who should know better. But the matrix has become a necessary form of organization in today's business environment. Companies now know that if they have multiple product lines, do business in multiple countries, and serve many customer segments through a variety of channels, there is no way they can avoid some kind of a matrix structure and the question most are asking is "How do we learn how to operate the matrix effectively?"

In Designing Matrix Organizations That Actually Work, Galbraith answers this and other questions as he shows how to make a matrix work effectively.

How to work and manage others successfully in matrix organisations operating across regions and functions, with global teams, customers and supply chains.

Traditional management training prioritizes clarity, predictability and control. In a matrix we need to be able to balance this with the ability to tolerate ambiguity, manage uncertainty and decentralize control. Managers need an expanded toolkit to help them move from the hard to the soft, from the concrete to the ambiguous and back again depending on the situation. Making the Matrix Work helps you develop your matrix mindset and will show you how to establish and engage networks that do not depend on role, control or authority to get things done.

This 10 year anniversary edition has been extensively revised to cover Agile and digital working, for those working and managing in the fast paced new world of work, with autonomous teams, iterative working and non-hierarchical leadership.

It will includes new material on alignment and connecting across silos, and on autonomous teams as well as 3 major new chapters on:
Change and stability
Hierarchy
Networks

There are updates to terms and techniques throughout the book to reflect hybrid and post pandemic working considerations and the impact of digital transformation.

Cross-functional Work: Getting Out of Our Siloes

Whether we are in a formal matrix structure, a matrix role or work through a web of people to get things done, today’s work requires us to work side to side, across the organization. For our own careers and for the success of the organization, we can’t remain in the comfortable confines of our functional, geographical or product siloes. The complex solutions and decisions that move businesses forward are found in the lateral work - with partners scattered across the organization and around the globe.

Master the Matrix, 2nd Edition, is based on the discussions, questions and ideas of thousands of participants and clients who have used this powerful, practical framework to make sense of cross-functional work. It is backed by the quantitative results from Finerty Consulting’s Matrix180 and Cross-Functional Influence 180 assessment tools, interviews and surveys.

Structured around the stories of practioners and considered the gold standard of “how to” in our matrixed, cross-functional organizations, this book is as relatable as it is reliable. Bonus material includes making it work in virtual work environments and what to look for when hiring for cross-functional roles..

Introducing Matrix Management 2.0™ - the New Game in Town

Take the journey with Leon and Lisa and learn how you can make your matrix organization a success.

Most organizations are still playing the old game – the Vertical Management 1.0 game. You know; the one where you need authority to get things done; where all the power lies with the leaders of the vertical silos; the one that makes working on cross-functional teams difficult. This game has been played for 60 years, and most organizations have a difficult time making it work for them.

Some organizations are choosing a new game to help them improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency, to push them past their competition – Matrix Management 2.0™. In this 4-book series, you’ll learn all about this new game – why you need to play, and what the rules are for playing.

Leon, the CEO and owner of a growing consulting organization, is working with Lisa, a Matrix Management 2.0™ expert, to resolve the challenges he faces running his matrix organization.

Their conversation continues from our previous book (Matrix Management Reinvented: Book 1 – The New Game in Town) and this time, the focus is on leadership.