Facilitating with Ease! Core Skills for Facilitators, Team Leaders and Members, Managers, Consultants, and Trainers

Since the publication of the first edition of Facilitating withEase! in 2000, this bestselling book has become the "go-to"reference for anyone who wants to become skilled in the art offacilitation. This thoroughly revised and updated third editionincludes easy-to-follow instructions, techniques, and hands-ontools.Facilitating with Ease! offers the basics on runningproductive meetings with confidence and includes the informationneeded to train others to become skilled facilitators as well.Filled with dozens of exercises, surveys, and checklists that canbe used to transform anyone into an effective facilitator, thisrevised editioncovers new topics such as:* Why and when leaders should facilitate and how to manageneutrality* Diversity, globalization, new technologies, and employeeengagement* When leaders should facilitate and when others should doit* Sharing facilitation with others* This new edition also includes meeting design template,surveys, and questionnairesPraise for Facilitating with Ease!"Facilitating With Ease! provides clear and effectiveguidelines for group facilitation. In China we are using this bookto help organizations develop facilitative leaders who cansuccessfully invoke the spirit of cooperation and teamsynergy."?Ren Wei, professional facilitator, X'ian, China"Facilitating With Ease! helps beginners as well asexperienced facilitators find their way among different aspects offacilitation. Easy to understand, this book provides insight intothe principles of facilitation and examples of practicalapplications for concrete situations."?Sieglinde Hinger, Siemens Corporation, Austria"Facilitating with Ease! is the fundamental read if you wantto be an effective facilitator. We refer to it all the time andconsider it a core competency for our consultants."?Ian Madell, managing director, LEVEL5 Branded Business Advisors,Toronto, Canada"If you're only going to buy one book on facilitation, this is theone to buy! That's what we tell the managers, consultants andfacilitators who attend our facilitation training programs. It's agold mine of ideas, resources and practical tools."?Ronnie McEwan, director, Kinharvie Institute, Glasgow, Scotland"I have been using Ingrid's materials for many years and find herbooks to be far above everything else out there. This latestrevision builds on what was already great and will surely increasethe effectiveness of any practitioner."?Mark Vilbert, program leader, Boeing Leadership Center