Facilitation Made Easy: Practical Tips to Improve Meetings and Workshops

The facilitator's task of opening up discussion, getting ideas into the open and setting broad future direction is essential if a group is to reach consensus on a particular outcome and it is now one of the key techniques used in meetings and workshops. Facilitation Made Easy provides a practical introduction to the essential skills needed and will help readers develop a facilitation style that is unbiased and enables control without being overpowering.

With detailed examples, proven tips for success, checklists and a self assessment guide to help readers test their own personal approach to facilitation, the book will help readers to:

Understand the facilitator's role

Develop the ideal structure for workshops and meetings

Control agendas and help to focus the outcome of meetings

Deal with difficulties.

This third edition also includes a new chapter on facilitating virtual meetings, explaining the mechanics of virtual teams, the pros and cons of virtual meetings, use of technology and tips on setting up, facilitating and participating in virtual meetings

Author: Esther Cameron
Publisher: Kogan Page
Published: 09/27/2005
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780749443511

About the Author
Cameron, Esther: - Esther Cameron is a freelance change adviser and coach who supports senior leaders and their teams and organizations through change. Her recent clients include Shell, Tata Steel, Canaccord Genuity and several British government departments.