Growing beyond the exclusive domain of professional facilitators, facilitation has become a core competency for anyone who runs meetings, leads a team, or manages a project. In addition, the concept of facilitation is a vital core leadership capability. Based on Ingrid Bens' best-selling book Facilitating with Ease, your Observer Guide will give you an opportunity to test participants' facilitation skills by administrating the author's highly acclaimed Facilitation Skills Inventory (FSI). This tested assessment will help you provide invaluable feedback on the participants' core knowledge, tactical awareness, and observed behaviors. A flexible tool, the Facilitation Skills Inventory offers an opportunity for:  Corporations to use a standardized set of criteria in assessing the current skill levels and training needs of managers and leaders. Employees to assess their current level of competency and help identify personal learning goals. Trainers to design effective?classroom activities. Educational institutions to reliably test for competence.  The Facilitation Skills Inventory is an ideal starting point for gauging, better understanding, and honing anyone's facilitation skills.

Facilitation Skills Inventory Observer Guide

Business & Money

Bens, Ingrid

Management & Leadership

Pfeiffer

Growing beyond the exclusive domain of professional facilitators, facilitation has become a core competency for anyone who runs meetings, leads a team, or manages a project. In addition, the concept of facilitation is a vital core leadership capability. Based on Ingrid Bens' best-selling book Facilitating with Ease, your Participant Guide will give you an opportunity to test your facilitation skills by using the author's highly acclaimed Facilitation Skills Inventory (FSI). This tested assessment provides invaluable feedback on your core knowledge, tactical awareness, and observed behaviors. A flexible tool, the Facilitation Skills Inventory offers an opportunity for:  Corporations to use a standardized set of criteria in assessing the current skill levels and training needs of managers and leaders. Employees to assess their current level of competency and help identify personal learning goals. Trainers to design effective?classroom activities. Educational institutions to reliably test for competence.  The Facilitation Skills Inventory is your ideal starting point for gauging, better understanding, and honing your facilitation skills.

Facilitation Skills Inventory Participant Guide

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.

Facilitating with Ease!: A Step-by-Step Guidebook with Customizable Worksheets on CD-ROM

Jossey-Bass

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.

Facilitating With Ease!: Core Skills For Facilitators, Team Leaders And Members, Managers, Consultants, And Trainers

Processes & Infrastructure

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

From Ingrid Bens, the author of the best-selling book Facilitating with Ease!, comes the next-step resource for project leaders, managers, community leaders, teachers, and other facilitators who want to hone their skills in order to deal with complex situations. Advanced Facilitation Strategies is a field guide that offers practical strategies and techniques for working with challenging everyday situations. These proven strategies and techniques are based on experience gleaned from hundreds of facilitated activities in organizations of all sizes and in all sectors. 
Both novice and seasoned facilitators who have had firsthand experience designing and leading meetings will benefit from this reality-based playbook. Advanced Facilitation Strategies is filled with the information facilitators need to <ul>
<li>Become better at diagnosing facilitation assignments and creating effective process designs</li> <li>Broaden their repertoire of tools to make impromptu design changes whenever they are needed</li> <li>Learn to be more resilient and confident when dealing with dysfunctional situations and difficult people.</li> </ul>

Advanced Facilitation Strategies: Tools and Techniques to Master Difficult Situations

Of all the skill sets that support the shift from a traditional management role to a more collaborative approach, none is more relevant than that of the role of the facilitator. The beliefs, behaviors, and practices of facilitation are precisely what all leaders need to acquire and put into action. In Facilitating to Lead! renowned facilitation expert Ingrid Bens applies her proven concepts of facilitation to the leadership role and demonstrates that facilitation is an effective work style, not merely a meeting technique. Throughout the book, Bens outlines the organizational and personal benefits of facilitative leadership and includes useful checklists to help leaders determine the situations when facilitative leadership is most appropriate to apply. Because empowerment is a core issue in the implementation of facilitative leadership, the book presents a four-level model that reframes empowerment from a vague concept to a concrete structuring tool.

Facilitating to Lead!: Leadership Strategies for a Networked World

Consultants spend years developing their expertise in their respective fields, but most never learn to how to facilitate. This is a major skill gap when you consider just how much time expert consultants spend in client meetings. This book aims to close that skill gap by describing the essential facilitation techniques that all expert consultants need to know. This book: <ul>
<li>describes the core practices and tools used by facilitators</li> <li>offers guidelines about effective questioning</li> <li>provides a bank of the key questions that consultants typically ask</li> <li>explains five different methods for helping groups make decisions</li> <li>provides instructions for using seven key conflict resolution tools</li> <li>outlines practical ways to ensure that every meeting is truly effective</li> </ul>
In addition, this book outlines the essential conversations that all expert consultants need to be able to facilitate. Having a clear step-by-step process takes the stress out of large group meetings and makes them look orderly and well planned. Each of the essential conversations described features instructions for structuring the dialogue and arriving at decisions that everyone can live with. These structured conversations include: <ul>
<li>Discovery </li> <li> Environmental Scanning </li> <li> Project Kickoff</li> <li>Vision and Mission </li> <li>Work Planning, Roles and Responsibilities</li> <li>Risk Assessment </li> <li>Stakeholder Analysis </li> <li>Communication Planning</li> <li>Status Update Meeting </li> <li>Creative Thinking </li> <li>Mid-point Check</li> <li>Systematic Problem Solving </li> <li>Constructive Controversy</li> <li>Survey Feedback </li> <li>Interpersonal Issue Resolution</li> <li>Overcoming Resistance </li> <li>Project Retrospective </li> <li>Project Adjournment</li> </ul>

Facilitation Techniques for Consultants: Indispensable tools to engage clients, improve meetings and build collaborative teams

Industries

Facilitation Tutor, LLC

Product Description 
Individualized Education Program Meetings are vitally important! 
They represent the opportunity for educators and the families of children with special needs to collaborate on the development of a customized education plan. 
Fortunately, most IEP meetings run smoothly and result in programs that are effective and have the full support of both educators and family members. Sadly, a small percentage of these meetings are challenging. 
When challenges occur, IEP meetings can quickly go from being positive and cooperative to being contentious and stressful. That’s why there is a need to equip staff with needed facilitation tools and technique. 
What’s inside? - an overview of facilitation basics, definitions, the essential core practices, tips about when and how to assume the neutral role - chapters on decision-making tools and the effective use of questions - dozens of process tools that bring structure and cohesion to conversations 
The core of this book is organized around the specific facilitation tools that have been found to be effective at each of five distinct stages in the development of Individualized Education Programs. 
For each stage, there’s a short description of the purpose of that stage, the activities conducted and the challenges commonly encountered. For each stage, there’s also a list of the most commonly made mistakes, the best practices and the facilitation tools that can be used to achieve optimal results. 
Once you start applying these tools, you’ll find that you won’t want to run your Individualized Education Plan meetings without them! 
 About the Author 
Ingrid Bens is the President of Facilitation Tutor, which is a consulting firm created to further the practice of facilitation as a core leadership competency. Ingrid has a Master's Degree in Adult Education and over 25 years of experience as an Organization Development Consultant. Her consulting experience includes the design and facilitation of large-scale, strategic change efforts in a number of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and nonprofit organizations. Ingrid has consulted on many team implementation projects in banks, hospitals, research firms, educational institutions and manufacturing plants. She has also led many projects to improve employee morale and help management shift to a more inclusive approach to leadership. Ingrid Bens is the well-known author of multiple bestselling books on the topic of facilitation, most notably Facilitating with Ease!, which is in its fourth edition and which has been translated into multiple languages, including Chinese. She is also the author of Advanced Facilitation Strategies and Facilitating to Lead, plus the Memory Joggers entitled Facilitation at a Glance! and The Conflict Handbook. In 2009, Ingrid Bens was asked by Pfeiffer Publishing to create the Facilitation Skills Inventory (FSI). This is currently the only validated instrument available for the assessment of facilitator competency. When she isn't consulting or writing, Ingrid Bens conducts workplace seminars on facilitation skills, team management and conflict management. Her extensive client list includes General Electric, Honeywell, The International Monetary Fund, Merck, CitiGroup, The Department of Veteran's Affairs, Gannett Publishing, Keurig Green Mountain, The National Education Association, The Environmental Protection Agency, AARP, Alcon, The Federal Deposit Insurance Commission, The National Institute for School Leadership, Harley-Davidson, Boeing, KPMG Consulting, The Securities and Exchange Commission, NASA, Philadelphia Children's Hospital, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Genzyme and US Bank and, of course, Region 4 Education Service Center.

Facilitating IEP Meetings

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Since the publication of the first edition of Facilitating with Ease! in 2000, this bestselling book has become the "go-to" reference for anyone who wants to become skilled in the art of facilitation. This thoroughly revised and updated third edition includes easy-to-follow instructions, techniques, and hands-on tools. Facilitating with Ease! offers the basics on running productive meetings with confidence and includes the information needed to train others to become skilled facilitators as well. 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: 
<ul>
<li>Why and when leaders should facilitate and how to manage neutrality</li> <li>Diversity, globalization, new technologies, and employee engagement</li> <li>When leaders should facilitate and when others should do it</li> <li>Sharing facilitation with others</li> <li>This new edition also includes meeting design template, surveys, and questionnaires</li> </ul> Praise for Facilitating with Ease! "Facilitating With Ease! provides clear and effective guidelines for group facilitation. In China we are using this book to help organizations 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 "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 "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

Facilitating With Ease!: Core Skills for Facilitators, Team Leaders and Members, Managers, Consultants, and Trainers

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. <ul>
<li>Run productive meetings that get real results</li> <li>Keep discussions on track and facilitate the exchange of ideas</li> <li>Resolve conflict and deal with difficult individuals</li> </ul>
<ul>
<li>Train leaders and others to facilitate effectively</li> </ul>
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.

Facilitating with Ease!: Core Skills for Facilitators, Team Leaders and Members, Managers, Consultants, and Trainers

wiley

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