For managers, supervisors, trainers, consultants - anyone who wants to make empowerment a reality - this book is a must. 
Filled with a wealth of checklists, guidelines, assessments, and hands-on exercises, this interactive guide explores the role of the facilitator and presents techniques for assessing and improving your own facilitation skills. 
From Managing to Empowering enables you to: 
Assess your own response style and readiness for the paradigm shift from parent-child to adult-adult relationships in the workplace. Use 36 skills and techniques for sharpening your discussion leadership ability. Sharpen your skills in phrasing questions, listening analytically, and resolving conflict. Identify the 12 key responsibilities of a group facilitator and the tools for accomplishing each. Take inventory of 35 key issues affecting the success of your work team efforts. Learn how to deal effectively with disruptive group members. Follow a six-step problem-solving process in diagnosing performance deficiencies. Prepare a decision matrix when faced with complex decisions. Evaluate your proficiency on the 20 "process skills" for facilitators.

From Managing to Empowering: An Action Guide to Developing Winning Facilitation Skills

Business & Money

Parry, Scott B.

Management & Leadership

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Book by Parry, Scott B., Parry, Scott B. Ph.D.

The Managerial Mirror: Competencies

Parry, Scott B. Ph.D.

Human Resource Development Pr

The Managerial Mirror: Qualities

Sharpen your expertise in applying different methods of evaluation to a variety of organizations and areas of training. This book's lessons guide you through every step and illustrates the process with real-life examples. Helpful tools and checklists explain how to win support from senior management, evaluate your instructional strengths, and more.

Evaluating the Impact of Training

Association for Talent Development

This book is designed to provide training guidance through a wealth of readings, self-assessments, planning sheets, training tools, and other forms of learning exercises. These materials have proved to be effective in sharpening the skills of thousands of instructors and course designers who have participated in more than 400 train-the-trainer workshops that the author has conducted over the years. The emphasis is on teaching in order to make changes in behavior. 
This book consists of 40 chapters divided into nine sections. At least one learning exercise appears in each chapter. The chapters are arranged in the natural flow of activities associated with the preparation and instruction of a new course. The sections are: Training-The Key to Performance Improvement; Analyzing the Need for Training; Designing a Training Program; Developing a Training Program; Sharpening Your Instructional Skills; Teaching Inductively and Deductively; Using Training Tools Effectively; Transferring Behavior From the Workshop to the Workplace; and Measuring the Effectiveness of Training. 
Workshops and courses on human resource development can benefit from the activities and exercises in these chapters. This book can also be used as a self-study program for individuals who wish to sharpen their instructional competencies.

Training for Results