An insight-filled, easy-to-use how-to for people looking to design and deliver engaging sessions that drive results: training and Human Resource professionals, CEOs and team leaders, and anyone else who facilitates and presents. This "cookbook" draws on years of experience using non-traditional approaches - improv, story telling, in-the-moment experiences, images, metaphors and more - to harness the full energies of a group of participants. The seven basic "recipes" provide fresh, smart, unexpected ways to make facilitated sessions (and their design) more collaborative, impactful and even more fun. Includes practical tips and pitfalls to avoid, as well as real-life examples from small creative firms to Fortune 500 clients. For facilitators serious about expanding their toolkit: get out your mini blow torch!
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"I feel like I was just given the secret recipes! This is a true gold mine of information for training professionals looking to design and deliver engaging sessions that drive results. The innovative and creative approach is a masterful blend of art, science and going with the flow. It is an invaluable resource I will refer back to again and again." --Kathy Simpson, Manager, U.S. Sales & Global Business Unit Learning + Development, Nike
"What makes this so successful is that Julie knows how to connect at an emotional, visceral level with anyone who has ever facilitated including those who have felt terrified by it. Unlike many books taking a mechanical approach to facilitation, here you learn from the years of experience Julie and her colleagues have amassed using non-traditional sensibilities improv, story telling, images, bent paperclips, metaphor to harness the full energies of a group of participants. Like any great cookbook in your kitchen, this will soon be heavily marked up, crumpled and ragged from use by anyone serious about improving as a facilitator." --Scott Dawson, Dean, School of Business Administration, Portland State University
"Warning: Don t be fooled by how fast and easy a read this is (a 3-hour plane ride was sufficient). Whether you are an aspiring facilitator, a CEO or just make a lot of presentations, Julie s insightful observations make these recipes extremely effective. Her knowledge of what makes us tick is astounding and acutely accurate. Having experienced these techniques first-hand, I know the recipes activate an audience, improve the outcome, are fun to be part of and more fun to practice (even for a control freak like me)." --Mike Doherty, President, Cole & Weber United
"What makes this so successful is that Julie knows how to connect at an emotional, visceral level with anyone who has ever facilitated including those who have felt terrified by it. Unlike many books taking a mechanical approach to facilitation, here you learn from the years of experience Julie and her colleagues have amassed using non-traditional sensibilities improv, story telling, images, bent paperclips, metaphor to harness the full energies of a group of participants. Like any great cookbook in your kitchen, this will soon be heavily marked up, crumpled and ragged from use by anyone serious about improving as a facilitator." --Scott Dawson, Dean, School of Business Administration, Portland State University
"Warning: Don t be fooled by how fast and easy a read this is (a 3-hour plane ride was sufficient). Whether you are an aspiring facilitator, a CEO or just make a lot of presentations, Julie s insightful observations make these recipes extremely effective. Her knowledge of what makes us tick is astounding and acutely accurate. Having experienced these techniques first-hand, I know the recipes activate an audience, improve the outcome, are fun to be part of and more fun to practice (even for a control freak like me)." --Mike Doherty, President, Cole & Weber United
About the Author
Julie Huffaker is a cultural anthropologist with an MBA - a relentlessly curious entrepreneur and consultant in the field of communication, leadership skill-building and organization change. She is a partner in boutique international consultancy On Your Feet, where she and her colleagues use highly experiential methods - including improvisation - with clients including Nike, Intel, DreamWorks, Disney, GE and others. A Morehead Scholar with the University of North Carolina and a Carnegie Fellow at Portland State University, Julie is also an avid traveler and a humble yoga practitioner. For more information about Julie or On Your Feet: www(dot)oyf(dot)com.
Gary Hirsch, lllustrator. Gary is the other co-founder of On Your Feet. He is also an accomplished improviser, wannabe marine biologist, and voracious /artist/illustrator/doodler. Gary has been teaching and performing professional improv for seventeen years, and is the founder of Super Project Lab: a long-form improv group based in Portland Oregon. His public art commissions can be seen in Portland, Dallas, and Melbourne Australia. He is the founder of Doodle House which features his illustrations and wearable art.
Gary's improv clients include GE, Nike, The North Face, Disney, P&G and others. He teaches at Wieden + Kennedy Advertising's experimental advertising grad school 12. He has just completed illustrating his first children's book called Dare. Gary lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, two children, and two hyper King Charles Cavaliers.
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Fantastic "cookbook",
This review is from: The Deeper, Funner Facilitation Cookbook (Perfect Paperback)
This is the best how-to book on facilitation that I've read. The concepts and ideas are immediately applicable, and they are relevant to both new and experienced facilitators. It's written in a highly accessible way, and is an excellent resource for any team leader or facilitator looking to "kick it up a notch".Nick Rothenberg OD Consultant and Principal, 2Be, LLC
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