The Effective Facilitator S Handbook

Author : Cathy A. Toll
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416632054

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The Effective Facilitator's Handbook by Cathy A. Toll Pdf

A one-stop shop to answer your most pressing questions about what it takes to facilitate. Workshops, committees, teams, and study groups are a regular part of an educator's professional life, and any educator can find themselves in the facilitator role, with a responsibility to aid the group in achieving its goals. The Effective Facilitator's Handbook is here to help. Professional development expert Cathy A. Toll has written a guide for busy facilitators, starting with four simple rules for successful facilitation: listen, start with the end in mind, lead with productive tools, and stay organized. The processes, tools, and templates in each chapter are easy to apply and offer advice about how to create a welcoming environment, set the right tone, understand the group's dynamics, improve communication, and more. This book walks you through the unique purposes, pitfalls, and needs of specific types of groups, whether it's a professional development workshop, a committee focused on one decision or problem, a team that regularly collaborates for student success, or a study group learning about a specific issue. But Toll also considers the bigger picture and connects the patterns behind different types of facilitation skills that will serve you in a variety of situations and settings. As an effective facilitator, you'll be able to increase the value of group time, foster engagement, and help teachers improve their practice so that they can bring their best to the classroom each day.

Author : John Heron
Publisher : Kogan Page Limited
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0749427981

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The Complete Facilitator's Handbook by John Heron Pdf

John Heron, well known for his previous books, The Facilitator's Handbook (1989) and Group Facilitation (1993), both of which have become standard reading on the subject, now integrates, builds on and updates those works to provide this comprehensive guide to making a success of facilitation. The key to the new book lies in the way in which it helps facilitators to understand and develop a personal style to their work. Analytical in approach and highly structured, it offers strong theoretical content on the fundamental thinking underlying facilitation (which includes exploration of its dimensions and modes, whole person learning, and a comprehensive group dynamic theory) but combines this with a wide repertoire for practical action designed to enable facilitators to build up their skills effectively. John Heron's distinctive merit here is his demonstration of the benefit to be derived when such skills not only suit facilitator's own personality but can also be matched to whatever situation facilitators encounter. This publication makes John Heron's seminal work newly accessible - for it is now available for the first time in paperback - to a new generation of facilitators in both training and education.

Author : Sandy Schuman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118429648

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The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation by Sandy Schuman Pdf

Sponsored by the International Association of Facilitators, TheIAF Handbook of Group Facilitation offers the need-to-knowbasics in the field brought together by fifty leading practitionersand scholars. This indispensable resource includes successfulstrategies and methods, foundations, and resources for anyone whoworks with groups. The IAF Handbook of GroupFacilitation provides an overview of the field for new andaspiring practitioners and a reliable reference for experiencedgroup facilitators, including chapters on Creating positive ongoing client relationships Building trust and improving communications Facilitating group brainstorming sessions Drawing out the best in people Developing a collaborative environment Designing and facilitating dialogue Managing conflicting agendas Working with multicultural groups Using improvisation Understanding virtual meetings Facilitating team start-up Assessing group decision processes Building expertise in facilitation Reviewing core facilitation competencies Modeling positive professional attitudes

Author : Fran Rees
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780787979805

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The Facilitator Excellence Handbook by Fran Rees Pdf

This is the thoroughly revised and updated edition of the best-selling The Facilitator Excellence Handbook. Written for both new and experienced facilitators, the second edition of The Facilitator Excellence Handbook offers a comprehensive guide for understanding the full range of skills, processes, and knowledge needed to become an effective facilitator. The book addresses a variety of facilitation opportunities, challenges, and problems and also contains A variety of verbal and nonverbal facilitation techniques Step-by-step facilitation processes and tools Information on how to facilitate conflict resolution in groups and how to facilitate difficult situations Instructions for designing and leading group work Examples of how various levels of facilitator competency are called for in different types of groups Techniques for facilitating meetings, teams, virtual teams, and organization-wide projects Discussions on the art of facilitating and what makes a great facilitator

Author : Helene Smit
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780992235611

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The Depth Facilitator's Handbook by Helene Smit Pdf

Depth Facilitation assists individuals and groups to achieve their chosen goals by helping them overcome personal and interpersonal barriers, as well as assisting them to access additional potential and creativity through building awareness of the psychological processes that determine their behaviour. 'The Depth Facilitator's Handbook' outlines the key principles and provides the tasks, tools and techniques for working effectively as a depth facilitator.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Combat Poverty Agency
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781905485673

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Developing Facilitation Skills: a handbook for group facilitators (3rd ed) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cathy A. Toll
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416631705

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The Effective Facilitator's Handbook by Cathy A. Toll Pdf

A one-stop shop to answer your most pressing questions about what it takes to facilitate. Workshops, committees, teams, and study groups are a regular part of an educator's professional life, and any educator can find themselves in the facilitator role, with a responsibility to aid the group in achieving its goals. The Effective Facilitator's Handbook is here to help. Professional development expert Cathy A. Toll has written a guide for busy facilitators, starting with four simple rules for successful facilitation: listen, start with the end in mind, lead with productive tools, and stay organized. The processes, tools, and templates in each chapter are easy to apply and offer advice about how to create a welcoming environment, set the right tone, understand the group's dynamics, improve communication, and more. This book walks you through the unique purposes, pitfalls, and needs of specific types of groups, whether it's a professional development workshop, a committee focused on one decision or problem, a team that regularly collaborates for student success, or a study group learning about a specific issue. But Toll also considers the bigger picture and connects the patterns behind different types of facilitation skills that will serve you in a variety of situations and settings. As an effective facilitator, you'll be able to increase the value of group time, foster engagement, and help teachers improve their practice so that they can bring their best to the classroom each day.

Author : Michael Wilkinson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118429525

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The Secrets of Facilitation by Michael Wilkinson Pdf

The Secrets of Facilitation delivers a clear vision of facilitation excellence and reveals the specific techniques effective facilitators use to produce consistent, repeatable results with groups. Author Michael Wilkinson has trained thousands of managers, mediators, analysts, and consultants around the world to apply the power of SMART (Structured Meeting And Relating Techniques) facilitation to achieve amazing results with teams and task forces. He shows how anyone can use these proven group techniques in conflict resolution, consulting, managing, presenting, teaching, planning, selling, and other professional as well as personal situations.

Author : Ingrid Bens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119434252

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Facilitating with Ease! by Ingrid Bens Pdf

The definitive guide to running productive meetings Facilitating With Ease! has become the go-to handbook for those who lead meetings, training, and other business gatherings. Packed with information, effective practices, and invaluable advice, this book is the comprehensive handbook for anyone who believes meetings should be productive, relevant, and as short as possible. Dozens of exercises, surveys, and checklists will help transform anyone into a skilled facilitator, and clear, actionable guidance makes implementation a breeze. This new fourth edition includes a new chapter on questioning, plus new material surrounding diversity, globalization, technology, feedback, distance teams, difficult executives, diverse locations, personal growth, meeting management, and much more. With in-depth, expert guidance from planning to closing, this book provides facilitators with an invaluable resource for learning or training. Before you run another meeting, discover the practices, processes, and techniques that turn you from a referee to an effective facilitator. This book provides a wealth of tools and insights that you can put into action today. Run productive meetings that get real results Keep discussions on track and facilitate the exchange of ideas Resolve conflict and deal with difficult individuals Train leaders and others to facilitate effectively Poorly-run meetings are an interruption in the day, and accomplish little other than putting everyone behind in their “real” work. On the other hand, a meeting run by an effective facilitator makes everyone’s job easier; decisions get made, strategies are improved, answers are given, and new ideas bubble to the surface. A productive meeting makes everyone happy, and results in real benefits that spread throughout the organization. Facilitating With Ease! is the skill-building guide to running great meetings with confidence and results.

Author : Richard G. Weaver
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Goal setting in personnel management
ISBN : 9781609941697

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The Practical Guide to Facilitation by Richard G. Weaver Pdf

Publisher Fact Sheet Hands-on companion to Managers as Facilitators, helping managers to quickly apply the theory & methods to the workplace.

Author : Cheri B. Torres
Publisher : Learning Unltd Corporation
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 097144160X

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The Appreciative Facilitator by Cheri B. Torres Pdf

Author : Sam Kaner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118047019

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Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner Pdf

"The best book on collaboration ever written!" —Diane Flannery, founding CEO, Juma Ventures And now this classic book is even better—much better. Completely revised and updated, the second edition is loaded with new tools and techniques. Two powerful new chapters on agenda design A full section devoted to reaching closure More than twice as many tools for handling difficult dynamics 70 brand-new pages and over 100 pages significantly improved

Author : Peggy Agostino Sharp
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : 0435087835

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Sharing Your Good Ideas by Peggy Agostino Sharp Pdf

"Sharing Your Good Ideas" describes presentation and workshop ideas and strategies designed to help today's educators organize and conduct effective presentations for other teaching adults.

Author : Michael Wilkinson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118206133

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The Secrets of Facilitation by Michael Wilkinson Pdf

The revised edition of this facilitation classic offers a wealth of targeted techniques for facilitators who seek effective, consistent, and repeatable results. Based on Michael Wilkinson's proven SMART (Structured Meeting And Relating Techniques) approach, The Secrets of Facilitation can help to achieve stellar results when managing, presenting, teaching, planning, and selling, as well as other professional and personal situations. This expanded edition includes new chapters on facilitating virtual meetings, cross-cultural teams, and large groups and conferences. It also provides a series of strategies for engaging teams, additional information about making meetings more productive, and further guidance on preventing dysfunctional behavior. In addition, the book contains a wealth of fresh case studies and an ancillary website with must-have tools and techniques for both the beginner and the seasoned facilitator. Praise for the First Edition of The Secrets of Facilitation "One of the single most powerful processes is the ability to successfully lead a group to an impactful, actionable outcome. In The Secrets of Facilitation, beginning and experienced facilitators alike will find tools to take their results to the next level." —Jim Canfield, chief learning officer, TEC International "This book shares 'The Secrets' that have been the basis of my facilitation practice for over a decade." —Kerri McBride, past chair, International Association of Facilitators "In my career, I've seen many, many facilitators. Michael Wilkinson is the best. 'The Secrets' explain why." —Len Roberts, CEO, RadioShack "We have trained over 100 leaders and business analysts in 'The Secrets.' Great facilitation works." —Peter Scott, executive general manager, MLC–National Australia Bank "At last there is a practical, hands-on guide for anyone who works with groups or teams. This book delivers!" —Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, CEO, Herrmann International, Herrmann Brain Dominance Indicator

Author : John Heron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Communication in small groups
ISBN : UVA:X002232294

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The Facilitators' Handbook by John Heron Pdf