The Fast Facilitator - book

Author

• Anthony Landale and Mica Douglas

Produced

• 2008

Key Features

202 page book

A wealth of information for both novice and experienced facilitators.

76 Facilitator Activities and Interventions Covering Essential Skills, Group Process, and Creative Techniques

Increase your understanding of facilitation and learn interventions and exercises you can use with others. This resource manual provides managers, trainers and consultants a format based on the core skills facilitators need to develop as well as the issues they will face at work.

The Fast Facilitator shows the difference facilitation skills can make in helping people learn, be more self-aware, be more flexible in their thinking and behavior and build their self-confidence.

The manual is organized into three parts covering a huge amount of groundwork: Essential facilitation, group and team facilitation and creative facilitation.

Topics include what is facilitation, the qualities of a facilitator, planning and structuring, understanding roles in teams, when and how to intervene, working with diversity and defense patterns. Key issues covered range from attentiveness and culture to emotional expression, openness and feedback.

Each of the 30 chapters is divided into four areas:

• The theory behind the topic to help you make sense of the activity and the issues you are facing
• Activities, games and exercises you can use with groups to build skills
• Coaching advice for working one-on-one
• Ideas and resource for self-development including traps to consider and difficulties you might encounter as a facilitator

Use this manual when you need support in dealing with a specific issue at work or when developing your professional skills. It is full of principles and practices that will enable you to get the best out of people.