Core skills for facilitators, team leaders and members, managers, consultants, and trainers
Because meetings matter so much in organisations today, facilitation has become a core skill for all leaders. Facilitating with Ease! 3rd Edition is an updated comprehensive 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. Presented in a simple and readable format, this practical workbook will help you develop and sharpen your facilitation skills.
The Goal of This Book
This practical workbook has been created to make core facilitation tools and techniques readily available to the growing number of people who want to improve their process skills. It represents materials and ideas that have been collected, tested, and refined over decades of active facilitation in all types of settings. This third edition retains the core tools and instruments that made previous editions so popular.
New materials can be found in every chapter. Facilitating With Ease! remains a practical workbook. While it builds on the theories of organisational development pioneers such as Chris Argyris, Donald Schon, and Edgar Scein, this resource doesn't aim to be theoretical. Instead its focus is on providing the reader with the most commonly used process tools, in a simple and accessible format. Not so much a book to be read, as one to be used! It contains easy-to-follow instructions, techniques, and hands-on tools for creating dynamic group settings in which people truly collaborate and make sound decisions.
Filled with dozens of exercises, surveys, and checklists that can be used to transform anyone into an effective facilitator, this revised editioncovers new topics such as:
- Why and when leaders should facilitate and how to manage neutrality
- Diversity, globalisation, new technologies, and employee engagement
- When leaders should facilitate and when others should do it
- Sharing facilitation with others
- This new edition also includes meeting design template, surveys, and questionnaires
Praise for Facilitating with Ease!
"If you're only going to buy one book on facilitation, this is the one to buy! That's what we tell the managers, consultants and facilitators who attend our facilitation training programs. It's a gold mine of ideas, resources and practical tools."
Ronnie McEwan, director, Kinharvie Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
"Facilitating With Ease! provides clear and effective guidelines for group facilitation. In China we are using this book to help organisations develop facilitative leaders who can successfully invoke the spirit of cooperation and team synergy."
Ren Wei, professional facilitator, X'ian, China
"Facilitating With Ease! helps beginners as well as experienced facilitators find their way among different aspects of facilitation. Easy to understand, this book provides insight into the principles of facilitation and examples of practical applications for concrete situations."
Sieglinde Hinger, Siemens Corporation, Austria
"Facilitating with Ease! is the fundamental read if you want to be an effective facilitator. We refer to it all the time and consider it a core competency for our consultants."
Ian Madell, managing director, LEVEL5 Branded Business Advisors, Toronto, Canada
"I have been using Ingrid's materials for many years and find her books to be far above everything else out there. This latest revision builds on what was already great and will surely increase the effectiveness of any practitioner."
Mark Vilbert, program leader, Boeing Leadership Center
