Results Based Facilitation: Book One - Foundation Skills: Moving from talk to action

Meetings can be boring, have circular and repetitive conversations, and end without moving from talk to action. Results Based Facilitation (RBF), used skillfully, produces conversations and meetings that prompt direct action. Results Based Facilitation: Book One - Foundation Skills can help you in three ways to hold more productive meetings. First, RBF is a specific, hands-on method that enables people to practice on a daily basis the skills for getting different and better results in their meetings and conversations. For example, most books on leadership exhort people to be better listeners; rarely, however, do you see leaders and managers who actually practice listening well. There is thus a gap between exhortation and realization. Results Based Facilitation: Book One - Foundation Skills provides the specific preparation steps, practice steps, and relapse strategies to achieve better listening. Second, RBF is designed to equip people to get concrete, actionable results anywhere, any time. The method is useful in one-on-one conversations, small groups, and large groups whether you are a meeting participant, meeting convener, or meeting facilitator. Third, RBF is an open architecture that complements and strengthens any other method a leader, manager, consultant, facilitator, or supervisor already uses. It specifically helps people map what they already know and to use what they know for better results more consistently and more frequently.