Facilitation Made Easy Practical Tips to Improve Meetings and Workshops

Author: Esther Cameron
Publisher: Kogan Page
ISBN: 9780749443511
Published In: September 2005
Format: Paperback , 176 pages
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A practical introduction to the essential skills required by facilitators. Facilitation Made Easyis packed with detailed examples, checklists and proven tips on how 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

Esther Cameron

Esther Cameron is an experienced change consultant who has been collecting and experimenting with approaches to change across different levels of organisational systems for 20 years. She writes books and articles on change and leadership, and practices as a change consultant and leadership coach. Esther has an eclectic and very human style of working, tuning into individual and systems needs; she is also skilled at working with emergence and structure simultaneously in response to the client context.

Esther is Director of innovative change consultancy Integral Change Consulting Ltd. Integral Change brings together over 28 years of organisational change consultancy experience, skill and knowledge by joining the established change consulting practices of Esther Cameron and Nick Mayhew. It provides a new, high value form of integrated, 'minimal intervention' consultancy , a response to the heightened pressure throughout most organisations to change rapidly what isn't working, and to achieve much more with less.