Facilitating with Ease!: A Step-By-Step Guidebook with Customizable Worksheets on CD-ROM [With CDROM]

by Ingrid Bens

Book Overview

We are all spending so much time in meetings and are being asked to achieve so many results in teams, that facilitation is fast becoming a required skill for everyone. In fact, its impossible to build... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787951943
• ISBN13: 9780787951948
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Great basic primer

A basic primer on facilitation. All of Ingrid's work is full of practical tools and techniques.

Years of Knowledge in One Neat Package

As a Human Performance Technologist, I am constantly running into situations where I need to use facilitating skills. I have acquired such skills and knowledge over years of experience and practice. This book, Facilitating With Ease!," neatly packages the knowledge components required of a Facilitator and provides useful tools to be used in practice. I am planning to use this book with a client in training new facilitators to facilitate discussions of ethical business leadership. I wish I had this book 10 years ago!

COMPREHENSIVE, CLEAR AND CONCISE.

Details core facilitation tools and techniques. Chapters cover: understanding facilitation; facilitation stages; assessing and understanding participants; creating participation; effective decision making; facilitating conflict; meeting management; process tools for facilitators (e.g., visioning, exit surveys, brainstorming) and process designs. This is a well organized 'soup to nuts' reference including worksheets on CD-ROM that can be customized. Comprehensive, clear, and concise.

Facilitating With Ease!

I have had the privilege of participating in workshops taught by Ingrid Bens: this is like having her in your own training room! The information in this book is both relevant and concise. I use the book to lead my facilitation team through all of their group dynamics training. The CD-ROM allows me the freedom to customize the worksheets to meet our needs. This is a great book that I highly recommend to all individuals who work in teams, lead meetings, or need assistance in group dynamics

From one facilitator to another...

As a failitator of a process using storyboards, I am always looking for new twists on facilitation in general. As a compact, to the point resource on facilitation and basic meeting management, I think Ingrid's is at the top of the list. While, like any such work, you truly gain the value when you attend a workshop, this book is worth the price in things anyone can adapt and use in any organization. You can never become "good enough" at facilitation and I am glad someone referred me to this book. Two thumbs up......Oh, and one other nice thing. Everything in here is to-the-point instruction - no big ego trips with the author's name dropped into war story after war story...