10 Steps to Successful Facilitation

10 Steps to Successful Facilitation
Author:
Publisher: ASTD
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781562865382

"Every professional business person needs a complete portfolio of skills, yet one important area is often taken for granted: the art of facilitation. This book takes the guesswork out of this important function and gives you a step-by-step process for becoming an accomplished and successful facilitator." "As a facilitator, your job is to remain neutral while helping others achieve common objectives.To do this, you need a complete range of tools and techniques for dealing with a wide variety of situations. In 10 Steps to Successful Facilitation, you'll find everything you need." "You can jump to any point in this book as needed, or you can follow the 10 steps in order from the beginning.You'll have the help you need to act as a catalyst for progress, enabling others to focus on key issues, arrive at appropriate solutions, and build sustainable agreements." "With this book as your roadmap, you can be thoroughly prepared for the role of facilitator, ready to cultivate cooperation and understanding among individuals and assist your organization in developing shared solutions to its challenges. You'll have the reputation and experience of ASTD behind you, delivering the best practices and experience of top managers and leaders in the field."--BOOK JACKET.

10 Steps to Successful Facilitation, 2nd Edition

10 Steps to Successful Facilitation, 2nd Edition
Author: ATD
Publisher: Association for Talent Development
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2018-09-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1949036294

Facilitate Groups That Deliver Results Every professional businessperson needs a complete portfolio of skills, yet one area is often taken for granted: the art of facilitation. This book takes the guesswork out of this essential skill and gives you a step-by-step process for becoming an accomplished and successful facilitator. As a facilitator, your job is to remain neutral while helping others achieve common objectives. To do this, you need tools and techniques to deal with a wide variety of group meeting situations. In 10 Steps to Successful Facilitation, you’ll find everything you need, including A wealth of methods and ideas to engage participants Strategies for handling conflict and creating a collaborative climate Tips for using media and technology effectively This second edition features updates to each step, reorganized to align with the problems facilitators face today, such as the increasing prevalence of virtual meetings. You’ll have the help you need to act as a catalyst for progress, enabling others to focus on key issues, arrive at appropriate solutions, and build sustainable agreements. With this book as your roadmap, you can be thoroughly prepared for the role of facilitator, ready to cultivate cooperation and understanding among individuals and assist your organization in developing shared solutions to its challenges.

10 Steps to Successful Presentations, 2nd Edition

10 Steps to Successful Presentations, 2nd Edition
Author: ATD
Publisher: Association for Talent Development
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1950496341

Overcome Your Fear of Presenting Are you afraid of public speaking? Do you feel anxious before presenting? Are you worried about making mistakes in front of others and being judged? If so, you are not alone—public speaking and presenting are among the things people fear the most. Conquer your phobia of public speaking with 10 Steps to Successful Presentations. In this second edition, the Association for Talent Development provides an updated 10-step guide to delivering first-rate presentations whether you have several months or just one day to prepare. Discover how to develop a dynamic, engaging presentation and deliver it flawlessly. Learn strategies to reduce stress and become a think-on-your-feet presenter. Master your openings and closings (including the question-and-answer session) and captivate your audience from start to finish. Updated tools offer guidance and reassurance along the way. New content covers: leading virtual presentations telling interesting stories and relatable examples using mindfulness to recover in the moment asking questions to involve the audience.

10 Steps to Successful Training

10 Steps to Successful Training
Author: Elaine Biech
Publisher: Association for Talent Development
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2009-03-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1607282704

This is not your typical training book. You won't find a traditional training-cycle outline or a classic training table of contents. Instead, this book pinpoints the key actions necessary to successful training and focuses on the elements with the most influence on bottom-line results. Throughout the book you'll discover helpful, ready-to-use tools: worksheets, evaluation forms, tables, checklists, case studies, and reminders and suggestions. Whether you're a middle- or upper-level manager, or a workplace learning or human-resource professional, 10 Steps to Successful Training can provide you with options for enhancing the learning environment in your organization. Boost your success as a trainer and help others learn more effectively by investing in this essential guidebook today.

10 Steps to Successful Meetings

10 Steps to Successful Meetings
Author: ASTD Press
Publisher: Association for Talent Development
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2009-02-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1607282674

Design and facilitate engaging, productive meetings.10 Steps to Successful Meetings presents strategies to create and conduct fruitful, impactful meetings. Successfully set meeting goals and agendas, boost participant involvement, and conduct timely, effective evaluation and follow-up. Part of the ASTD 10 STEPS series.

The Secrets of Facilitation

The Secrets of Facilitation
Author: Michael Wilkinson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-06-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118429524

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.

10 Steps to Successful Project Management

10 Steps to Successful Project Management
Author: Lou Russell
Publisher: Association for Talent Development
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2023-05-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1607284472

A crash course for effectively planning and managing timely, organized projects. 10 Steps to Successful Project Management features a structured methodology for delivering high-quality projects on time. Learn how to distinguish between a project and task, build a convincing business case, define project scope, assess risks and constraints, create a project plan, collaborate on action items, and measure and communicate results. This title is an essential resource for anyone, in any function, of any business.

The Project Meeting Facilitator

The Project Meeting Facilitator
Author: Tammy Adams
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2007-09-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470185007

Have you ever been involved in a project that didn’t require a meeting? Neither have we. Well-run project meetings allow teams to get through the maze of distractions and obstacles to achieve results. Unfortunately, many project meetings aren’t well-run—they are viewed, by team members, as unproductive, tedious, wastes of precious time. But you can change that. The Project Meeting Facilitator contains practical techniques and practices that will help you facilitate our meetings more effectively, transforming them into well-planned, well-managed journeys that engage the team while achieving the intended goals.

Fearless Facilitation

Fearless Facilitation
Author: Cyndi Maxey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2013-03-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 111841750X

As the workforce ages and younger trainers and managers emerge, facilitation skills take on a new importance and, with the increased use of social networks, new facilitation skills are needed. Written by two facilitation gurus, this book shows how to make any learning environment come alive. It outlines proven guidelines any trainer can use to unify groups, inspire creativity, and get audiences, teams, and colleagues to speak up, talk back, participate, and engage in meetings.

Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!

Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!
Author: Marvin R Weisbord
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2007-07-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1605093165

This practical guide details ten key principles that will profoundly change the way you think about, organize, and lead the meetings that matter most. Rather than trying to change anyone's behavior, Weisbord and Janoff show you how to change the conditions under which people interact. By doing less, you help others do more. With examples from around the world, and practical tips and exercises in every chapter, Don't Just Do Something, Stand There! gives you many new techniques for helping people discover common ground, make productive use of dissension, and take responsibility for action.