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.

Not Just Another Meeting

Not Just Another Meeting
Author: Rodney Napier
Publisher: Association for Talent Development
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2018-11-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1562866915

Create a fresh, intentional approach to meetings When meetings draw employees away from day-to-day tasks but fail to reach their intended outcome, it has huge costs to the organization. All too often, this happens because meetings lack purpose—people gather together to discuss a problem but don’t know how to approach it strategically. Consider that the typical leader spends at least 10 hours a week in meetings with an average of five people. Now, assume each of those individuals is priced out at $100 an hour. That’s $5,000 a week in meeting costs. Multiply that $5,000 by 50 weeks, then by the 10 top executives. The cost? $2.5 million. Of course, leaders dread the thought of one more ineffective meeting, as do most other workers. With preparation and intention, you can turn these wasted opportunities into sessions that fully engage participants and teams. In Not Just Another Meeting: Creative Strategies for Facilitation, you will learn how to be intentional about diagnosing what your team requires from a meeting. By expanding your repertoire of what to do and how to do it, you can respond to any situation with calm, certainty, and creativity. Experienced facilitators and consultants Rodney Napier and Eli Sharp describe 13 classic designs, such as the Future Search, Collapsing Consensus, and Genie in the Bottle. Applying to wide-ranging workplace issues, these designs provide the tools to enable any gathering to solve problems, build trust, and deal with conflict. Accompanying them are animated videos, available online, that allow you to observe exactly how to facilitate each design. This book shines a new light on situations you’ve taken for granted for years. Break out of your old meeting habits—and actually excite the participants of meetings you lead.

Fearless Feedback

Fearless Feedback
Author: Timothy Signorelli
Publisher:
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2019-01-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578409054

Do you seek a feedback process that can be tailored to equip leaders to accomplish their professional goals? Do you need a practical guide for mining stakeholder feedback and framing it in ways that make leaders hungry for the insights? Are you tired of being constrained by cookie-cutter 360-degree feedback tools used in organizations, tools that can be tone deaf to the underlying emotions? Do you wish you could uncover the fears which inhibit the change a leader needs, so they can design actions for future growth? Then Fearless Feedback is your answer Among many things, this book provides: A practical seven-step framework on how to structure stakeholder feedback for leaders; An actionable guide with specific dos and don'ts;Intriguing dialogue between coach, leader, and stakeholder (articulating the unspoken thoughts and underlying emotions); and Tested techniques, tips, tools, and templates

Fearless Facilitation

Fearless Facilitation
Author: Cyndi Maxey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2013-04-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118375815

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.

Workshops

Workshops
Author: Jeff E. Brooks-Harris
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1999-06-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780761910213

Clarifying the fine art of workshop design and facilitation, this book - aimed particularly at social workers - is the ultimate guide to setting up and running a workshop. The authors' model takes account of experiential learning and individual learning styles. Numerous examples and exercises are provided.

Liftoff

Liftoff
Author: Diana Larsen
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2016-06-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1680503847

Ready, set, liftoff! Align your team to one purpose: successful delivery. Learn new insights and techniques for starting projects and teams the right way, with expanded concepts for planning, organizing, and conducting liftoff meetings. Real-life stories illustrate how others have effectively started (or restarted) their teams and projects. Master coaches Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies have successfully "lifted off" numerous agile projects worldwide. Are you ready for success? Every team needs a great start. If you're a business or product leader, team coach or agile practice lead, project or program manager, you'll gain strategic and tactical benefits from liftoffs. Discover new step-by-step instructions and techniques for boosting team performance in this second edition of Liftoft. Concrete examples from our practices show you how to get everyone on the same page from the start as you form the team. You'll find pointers for refocusing an effort that's gone off in the weeds, and practices for working with teams as complex systems. See how to scale liftoffs for multiple teams across the enterprise, address the three key elements for collaborative team chartering, establish the optimal conditions for learning and improvement, and apply the GEFN (Good Enough for Now) rule for efficient liftoffs. Throughout the book are stories from real-life teams lifting off, as seasoned coaches describe their experiences with liftoffs and agile team chartering. Focused conversations help the team align, form, and build enough trust for collaborating. You'll build a common understanding of the teams' context within business goals. Every liftoff is unique, but success is common!

Training from the Heart

Training from the Heart
Author: Barry Lyerly
Publisher: Association for Talent Development
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2023-05-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1607283352

This book argues that the most effective and influential trainers have at least two things in Common - they know why they are trainers, and they understand that training is a partnership. Training from the Heart shows you how to find your own "training heart," and then how to use this insight to create a learning climate that will encourage your learners to apply lessons from the classroom to the job. Training professionals willing to take this journey of self-discovery are encouraged to take "action" and are given ample assistance by the authors through the use of self-assessments, thought-provoking checklists, and other learning tools. In addition, you will find many useful first-person vignettes throughout the book that demonstrate why training from the heart really works.

Speak Up!

Speak Up!
Author: Cyndi Maxey
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2008-11-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1429946741

The insider's guide for women who want to master the art of business, professional, and public speaking Whether speaking one-on-one or one to one thousand, women have specific challenges that can get in the way of their ability to convey ideas and engage an audience. Public speaking professionals Cyndi Maxey and Kevin O'Connor give women the tips and tools they need to be able to speak clearly, with confidence and conviction, and present information effectively. In SPEAK UP!, you'll learn how to: Deal with difficult colleagues Speak on the spot Use technology in support of your message Sell your ideas with passion and power Connect confidently with your superiors For any woman who wants to get her point across, from the boss' office, to the conference room, to a convention center, SPEAK UP! will help you polish your presentation skills, get heard, and get what you want.