The Desktop Encyclopedia for Facilitation
Reading the Desktop Encyclopedia for Facilitation causes improved communication, listening, and thinking skills, and significantly impacts the quality and effectiveness of your leadership style resulting in highly effective and seriously successful facilitated engagements. Continued reading of this material now greatly complicates the invasion of dysfunctional teams and faulty participant reasoning. Facing your clients, students, or meeting participants without using the tools and techniques recommended in this encyclopedia is a careless and unsafe alternative to effective communication.
Of the thousands of facilitation books on the market, you picked this one. That was a great decision because inside these pages you will find answers and solutions for HOW to facilitate successfully.
With the exception of a few great books about facilitation on the market today, most of the literature published on this topic primarily concentrate on theory, philosophy, and models of facilitation, or delve into one or two key aspects of the process. Yes, those concepts are important, for without them this book would have no foundation. However, few books pull together an all-encompassing resource guide for facilitation, and even fewer connect the practice of facilitation with the competency area of leadership, especially as an overarching theme throughout the publication.
This is an encyclopedia, not a novel; you take from it what you need, when you need it, and leave the rest for later. This encyclopedia, guaranteed, addresses the most common facilitation problems any professional faces! When you read through the many techniques and encounter the plethora of tools and tricks of the trade, I'm willing to bet you ll find an armful of ideas you ve never thought of before.
The foremost benefit that the Desktop Encyclopedia for Facilitation has to offer becomes obvious when you discover you have at your fingertips a mass collection of applicable ideas, tools, and techniques. The Desktop Encyclopedia for Facilitation dives into organized collaboration, decision-making, problem solving, team building, and so much more. In the Desktop Encyclopedia for Facilitation, there is no hunting for the how-to, no rummaging through several different resources to assemble one comprehensive process, and no translating intellectual theory into practical application. It s right here, in one place.
