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

Ingrid Bens (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0787951943 | ISBN-13: 978-0787951948 | Publication Date: January 2000 | Edition: 1

If you need to facilitate productive, effective meetings with skill and authority, then this package is definitely for you. Based on fifteen years of in-the-field experience, it contains the same easy-to-follow instructions, techniques, and hands-on tools the author has used to teach thousands of team leaders, consultants, supervisors, and beginning managers how to facilitate with ease. Complete with worksheets on CD-ROM that can be customized to fit your personal needs, it's a complete facilitation workshop in take-home form.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Facilitating with Ease! is a gold mine of tools, tips, and wisdom, useful for both novices and experts. In a world where everyone must facilitate or fall behind, this guide will help you stay ahead!" —Jim Gannon, senior vice president of human resources development, Royal Bank Financial Group

"Facilitating with Ease! is a must-have resource. I've been in OD for fifteen years and this is one of my 'go-to' books." —Rob Mullins, senior training consultant, The Boeing Company

"Facilitating with Ease! is so thorough and so well organized, we've made it the centerpiece of our facilitator training program." —Karen H. Wunderlin, president, Wunderlin Consulting

Review

"Facilitating with Ease! is a gold mine of tools, tips, and wisdom, useful for both novices and experts. In a world where everyone must facilitate or fall behind, this guide will help you stay ahead!"
--Jim Gannon, senior vice president of human resources development, Royal Bank Financial Group

"Facilitating with Ease! is a must-have resource. I've been in OD for fifteen years and this is one of my 'go-to' books."
--Rob Mullins, senior training consultant, The Boeing Company

"Facilitating with Ease! is so thorough and so well organized, we've made it the centerpiece of our facilitator training program."
--Karen H. Wunderlin, president, Wunderlin Consulting --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (January 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787951943
• ISBN-13: 978-0787951948
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,381,218 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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41 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From one facilitator to another..., July 7, 2000

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Rich Heiland - See all my reviews

This review is from: Facilitating With Ease! A Step-By-Step Guidebook with Customizable Worksheets on CD-ROM (Paperback)

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...

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Insightful!, October 15, 2001

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Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Facilitating With Ease! A Step-By-Step Guidebook with Customizable Worksheets on CD-ROM (Paperback)

Companies that embrace work teams quickly discover a basic truth: More teams mean more meetings. Management experts laud the benefits of enlightened teamwork, but they spend much less time dwelling on the often long, sometimes pointless and nearly always inefficient meetings that teams breed. With teams fast becoming a fixture in the corporate world, meeting management, or facilitation, is becoming a critical skill for anyone with executive ambitions. Author Ingrid Bens' definition of a facilitator is quite specific - someone who guides a meeting without actually participating in discussion or decision making - but her book is filled with practical advice that any professional can apply when running a meeting. A host of charts, examples and worksheets (not to mention the accompanying CD) help illustrate her process for steering meetings without controlling or directing the outcome. We [...] recommend this hands-on how-to guide to anyone motivated to minimize the waste of meeting-creep.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars COMPREHENSIVE, CLEAR AND CONCISE., February 26, 2005

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Gerry Stern "Stern's Management Review Online" (Culver City, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Facilitating with Ease!, with CD: Core Skills for Facilitators, Team Leaders and Members, Managers, Consultants, and Trainers (Paperback)

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.