Facilitation is an emerging and exciting profession!

A facilitator helps groups of people to enable them to interact more effectively in a wide range of situations and occupations, including workplaces, organisational planning, leisure and health activities and community development.

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...How to Lead Effective Collaboration with Agile Teams 

Have you ever been with a team that was spinning in circles and felt unsure how to help? Have you ever been in the room with a high-conflict group and wanted to flee?

If you are responsible for leading teams of any size toward better outcomes, then chances are you have stepped into the role of facilitator at some point. But what does it mean to be a facilitator? While sticky notes, dot voting, and gathering people around a whiteboard are all helpful activities, they can only take us so far.

Introducing the Five Guiding Principles of the Agile Coach Facilitation Stance, this book is your guide to moving your team forward, even when things get tough. You will learn to lead your team toward effective collaboration by inviting different points of view (even when it creates conflict), remaining unbiased in high-stakes meetings, understanding what the group needs, and navigating difficult interpersonal dynamics.

The Art of Facilitation is for anyone who is ready to lead with self-awareness and group insight—who is ready to help their teams work more efficiently and effectively in a truly collaborative environment.

Marsha Acker is a professional facilitator and executive coach with 25 years of experience supporting leaders as they tackle complex challenges and lead change in their organisations. The founder and CEO of TeamCatapult, she uses systems thinking, structural dynamics, dialogue, and agility to help teams collaborate and align with clarity, purpose, and vision.

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3HAG WAY: The Strategic Execution System that ensures your strategy is not a Wild-Ass-Guess!

Every company needs a 3HAG—a 3 Year Highly Achievable Goal! The 3HAG WAY is a prescriptive framework that takes the guessing out of your strategy and ensures that you and your whole team are confident in where you are going. It breaks your strategy down into a clear and simple picture—so clear and simple that the whole team will be able to see where the company is going and where it will end up in three years’ time. This strategic clarity will align, engage, and empower your team to make confident decisions in order to achieve your 3HAG.

You’ll find step-by-step instructions to gut out your first 3HAG while building the confidence required to execute with speed toward your goals. The core purpose of this book is to have a significant impact on CEOs, leaders, and their companies and enable them to confidently realize their goals more quickly than they thought possible. And by achieving these goals they will positively impact their families and their communities.

Whether you run a team of four, forty or 40,000, the tools and framework in this book will help you articulate your company’s strategy in simple terms and create a Strategic Execution System that works. We’re going to take each step of the strategy and break it down for you so that you know exactly how to take these steps and why they’re critical to achieving your goal.

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I am convinced that understanding why we need to grow our abilities and skills is critical for the future of work.

In today's quickly changing world, technological breakthroughs and societal shifts are reshaping the employment environment. We must accept continuous learning and adaptability in order to succeed in this dynamic world.

We improve our job market competitiveness by expanding our abilities and skills. Individuals with specialized expertise, creativity, critical thinking, and emotional intelligence will be in high demand as automation and artificial intelligence increasingly replace ordinary labour. Furthermore, upgrading our skills allows us to keep up with technological changes, ensuring that we can successfully harness new tools and technologies to drive creativity and efficiency.

Furthermore, learning new talents allows us to negotiate the intricacies of the future workplace. The gig economy, remote employment, and multidisciplinary cooperation are all becoming increasingly common, requiring a diverse set of skills.

Adaptability and the ability to swiftly master new abilities are becoming increasingly important in this changing landscape.
Finally, knowing the significance of growing our abilities and skills enables us to remain relevant, resilient, and fulfilled in changing work situations. It positions us to seize new chances, make meaningful contributions, and advance professionally throughout our lives. In this book, we will look at some skills and strategies to consider for what the future of work will require from humans as we evolve.

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How successful people become even more successful

Your hard work is paying off. You are doing well in your field. But there is something standing between you and the next level of achievement.

That something may just be one of your own annoying habits. Perhaps one small flaw - a behaviour you barely even recognise - is the only thing that's keeping you from where you want to be. It may be that the very characteristic that you believe got you where you are - like the drive to win at all costs - is what's holding you back. As this book explains, people often do well in spite of certain habits rather than because of them-and need a "to stop" list rather than one listing what "to do".
Marshall Goldsmith's expertise is in helping global leaders overcome their unconscious annoying habits and become more successful. His one-on-one coaching comes with a six-figure price tag - but in this book you get his great advice for much less.

Recently named as one of the world's five most-respected executive coaches by Forbes, he has worked with over 100 major CEOs and their management teams at the world's top businesses. His clients include corporations such as Goldman Sachs, Glaxo SmithKline, Johnson and Johnson and GE.

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Born to Win - Find Your Success Code.

Zig Ziglar's ultimate book compresses over four and one-half decades of life changing tools and practices into an inspiring, concise, easy to use format for bottom line people who want to grow and improve the whole spectrum of their life "right now!"

Readers will learn that when you have the hope that things can change, and a plan to make that change possible, then you can and will take action.

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The average employee will endure (rather than enjoy) 64,000 hours’ work in their lifetime: 40 hours a week, more than 40 weeks a year, for over 40 years.

So how do we change the world of work so it’s good for business and good for people?

Whether you have just started your first job or are the CEO of a company, the exercises in this book will help you harness your motivation so you can become the leader you want to be and the world needs. CREATE Motivation offers a powerful yet simple-to use model that will help you to:

• Identify what has led to your successes (and failures) to date
• Develop a compelling vision of your future as a leader
• Tap into your intrinsic motivation so you can sustain higher levels of performance
• Know how to inspire others to do the same

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Do you want more people to buy into your ideas? Are you frustrated with too many unproductive meetings?

Are you struggling to find your way in life? Do you need a new approach to solve the complex challenges of today?

If so, visual tools are your answer! In this book, Holger Nils Pohl will help you harness numerous visual tools to create value for your business, your customers, and even your private life. And it all starts with a simple but powerful three-stage process: Understand, Create, and Share.

However, Creating Clarity is more than just a toolkit, it also provides you with a new way of thinking that will help you successfully navigate the complex challenges of the 21st century by allowing you to communicate well with others and transform the chaos into clarity.

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Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition

The New York Times and Washington Post bestseller that changed the way millions communicate

“[Crucial Conversations] draws our attention to those defining moments that literally shape our lives, our relationships, and our world. . . . This book deserves to take its place as one of the key thought leadership contributions of our time.”
―from the Foreword by Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“The quality of your life comes out of the quality of your dialogues and conversations. Here’s how to instantly uplift your crucial conversations.”
―Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator of the #1 New York Times bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul®

The first edition of Crucial Conversations exploded onto the scene and revolutionized the way millions of people communicate when stakes are high. This new edition gives you the tools to:

• Prepare for high-stakes situations
• Transform anger and hurt feelings into powerful dialogue
• Make it safe to talk about almost anything
• Be persuasive, not abrasive

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Field Marshal William Slim stands alongside Montgomery as the outstanding British field commander of World War II. 

Defeat Into Victory is his classic account of the Burma campaign: a story of retreat, attrition and final hard-fought victory over the Japanese. Told by a commander always at the centre of events, this is a narrative which captures both the high drama and the harsh reality of war.

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The third edition of this ground-breaking book continues to advance its mission to support groups to do their best thinking.

 It demonstrates that meetings can be much more than merely an occasion for solving a problem or creating a plan. Every well-facilitated meeting is also an opportunity to stretch and develop the perspectives of the individual members, thereby building the strength and capacity of the group as a whole.

This fully updated edition of The Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making guides readers through the struggle and the satisfaction of putting participatory values into practice, helping them to fulfill the promise of effective group decision-making. With previous editions already embraced by business and community leaders and consulting professionals around the world, this new book is even more insightful and easy to use.

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‘How to Win Friends and Influence People' is one of the first best-selling self-help books ever published. 

Just after publishing, it quickly exploded into an overnight success, eventually selling more than 15 million copies worldwide, and pioneering an entire genre of self-help and personal success books.

With an enduring grasp of human nature, it teaches his readers how to handle people without letting them feel manipulated, how to make people feel important without inspiring resentment, how win people over to your point of view without causing offence, and how to make a friend out of just about anyone. Millions of people around the world have improved their lives based on the teachings of Dale Carnegie. This classic book will turn your relationships around and improve your interactions with everyone in your life.

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) was an American writer and lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking and interpersonal skills.

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