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Facilitation, Training and Leadership Resources

Secrets of Facilitation reveals the principles and techniques effective facilitators use to produce amazing results through groups. The author identifies 60 secrets that separate great facilitators from good ones. He then puts you right in the room through his case studies and numerous sample dialogues, so you can see and experience the techniques in action!

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Articles for Facilitators

Article	Author	Word Count
20 Roles of a Masterful Meeting Leader	Michael Wilkinson	408
5 Ps of Preparation	Michael Wilkinson	642
Affordable Web-based Meetings for Facilitators FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	507
Are You a Masterful Meeting Participant? FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	917
Are Your Meetings Masterful? Take this Quiz to Find Out FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	582
Art of Probing	Michael Wilkinson	1057
Be a Hack of a Facilitator FREE!	Dorothy Purge	1067
Building Consensus: The Art of Getting to YES	Michael Wilkinson	1363
Conference Calls and Virtual Meetings	Michael Wilkinson	393
Create a Successful First Meeting of a Task Force	Michael Wilkinson	745
Could, Should, Must and Will	Michael Wilkinson	363
Do Great Trainers Make Great Meeting Facilitators?	Michael Wilkinson	837
Facilitation Excellence: The Seven Separators FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	833
Facilitation Framework for Board Development	Michael Kipp	717
Facilitation in the Classroom FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	726
The Facilitative Way Makes the Difference	Priscilla Wilson	897
Facilitator or Speaker? You Mean There's a Difference?	Kimberly Douglas	485
Games We Play	Susan Nurre	748
Guerrilla Facilitation	Michael Wilkinson	696
How Difficult Is Your Upcoming Session? FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	936
Internal Facilitator Assessment Program FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	584
Key Questions When Choosing a Facilitator FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	494
Let's NOT Meet! FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	255
Meeting Feedback: The Pluses and Deltas	Jeff Wright	813
Methods for Group Decision-Making	Michael Wilkinson	717
Principles of SMART Facilitation	Michael Wilkinson	1813
Recognizing Communication Styles At Their Best and Worst	Michael Wilkinson	484
Recognizing the Need for Facilitation FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	595
Risky Business FREE!	LSI	726
Rotating Review	Michael Wilkinson	338
Selling Facilitation: The Client Meeting	Michael Wilkinson	1344
Starting Meetings Masterfully: Part I	Michael Wilkinson	1447
So, You Think You Run Great Meetings?	Michael Wilkinson	855
Tapping Meeting Potential	Jessica Hartung	718
Target Characteristics for Facilitator Candidates FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	497
Team Building Lesson FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	414
Ten Tough Questions to Ask Your Facilitation Training Vendor FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	976
Understanding the Fundamental Secret of Facilitation	Michael Wilkinson	945
The What, The Why, The How	Michael Wilkinson	579
Why Use a Facilitator? FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	533

Articles For Consultants & IT Professionals

Article	Author	Word Count
7 Strategies for Effective Community Engagement FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	606
Are You a Consultant or Are You a Contractor?	Michael Wilkinson	588
Asking the Right Questions	Michael Wilkinson	313
Avoid the Expectations Gap	Michael Wilkinson	582
Dealing with Change	Michael Wilkinson	435
Difference Between a Manager and a Leader	Michael Wilkinson	1688
Doing the Job Right vs. Doing the Right Job	Michael Wilkinson	454
Eight Essentials of Teams	Michael Wilkinson	476
Establishing Project Objectives	Michael Wilkinson	610
Five Best Practices for Capturing Best Practices	Russell Allen Zech	735
The Funneling Technique	Michael Wilkinson	466
Gaining Agreement on Requirements	Michael Wilkinson	364
Getting Team Involvement in Process Change	Tammy Adams	970
Getting Your Meetings Started on Time FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	661
The Guiding Write FREE!	Dee Dukehart	1070
How Do You Show Up?	Bill Treasurer	664
IT Soft Skills: The Key to Sustained Advancement	Michael Wilkinson	744
IT's Role in Driving Business Strategy	Michael Wilkinson	2285
Making Conferences Engaging	Michael Wilkinson	444
Master the Art of Winning RFP's	Robert Potter	599
Misreading Styles	Michael Wilkinson	991
Project Management vs. Relationship Management	Michael Wilkinson	1091
Ramping Up Your Sales: CustomerCentric Selling FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	1049
Recovering From A Mistake	Michael Wilkinson	379
Reviewing Process Redesigns: A Lesson from the Field	Michael Wilkinson	712
Selecting Your Team	Michael Wilkinson	4428
Soft Skills You Need to Advance	Michael Wilkinson	403
Success...It's Your V.O.I.C.E. Power	Dee Dukehart	989
Team versus Group: A Team Building Exercise	Michael Wilkinson	599
Tips for Running Technical Meetings	Michael Wilkinson	692
Why Are You Better? Build Preference Value To Beat The Competition	Robert Potter	580

Articles For Leaders

Article	Author	Word Count
Accountability Dice	Michael Wilkinson	536
Assessing Your Team Members' Readiness for Change	Michael Wilkinson	329
Avoid the Executive Feeding Frenzy	Michael Wilkinson	797
Becoming a Level 3 Association	Michael Wilkinson	903
Contemplative Leadership	Eileen Dowse	601
Delegating Decision Making	Michael Wilkinson	507
Difference Between a Manager and a Leader	Michael Wilkinson	1688
Do High Performers Really Need a Coach? FREE!	Leigh Ann Rodgers	825
Do you give a GIFT when you praise?	Michael Wilkinson	368
Emperor's New Clothes: Providing Negative Feedback	David Walton Earle	861
Feedback: The Breakfast of Champions	David Walton Earle	672
Give Me a Fulcrum FREE!	Kim Sawyer	1679
Getting Team Involvement in Process Change	Tammy Adams	970
Immature Leaders Go Off Like Milk	Estienne de Beer	983
Importance of Operating Principles	Michael Wilkinson	770
Innovation FREE!	Salim Hemdani	625
Job Security	Michael Wilkinson	530
Leadership Scorecard	Michael Wilkinson	613
Low Morale: One of the Toughest Challenges for the CEO	Scott Pickard	539
Management Styles	Michael Wilkinson	641
Managing Your Boss	Michael Wilkinson	1089
The Menace of Micromanagement	Estienne de Beer	1217
The Perils of Positive Thinking	Estienne de Beer	1071
Power of Stories	Larry Lipman	826
Presenting to the Large Audience	Kathy Reiffenstein	697
Putting Off Procrastination	Patricia Clason	993
Secret Formula for Success	Michael Wilkinson	457
Supervisor's Most Important Duty	David Walton Earle	638
Take Your Strengths to World Class	Dike Drummond	343
Techniques for Building Trust	Michael Wilkinson	847
To Coach or Not To Coach FREE!	Kevin Fleming	743
Transforming Your Meetings Culture FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	696
What Makes Employees Mad?	David Earle	608
Who's Responsible for Leadership Development in Your Organization? FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	667
Why Don't You Trust Me? The Five Cs of Trust	Michael Wilkinson	1065
Your Daily Discipline Determines Your Destiny	Dominic Carubba	1238

Articles For Strategic Planners

Article	Author	Word Count
Action Planning: Developing the Tactics for the Strategy	Michael Wilkinson	3528
Avoiding Execution Pitfalls: The Strategy Review	Michael Wilkinson	790
Board Composition Model	Michael Wilkinson	942
Communications: The Critical Link to Successful Business Strategy	J.R. Hipple	1062
Developing the Mission Statement: A Case Study	Michael Wilkinson	1015
Difference Between Mission and Vision	Michael Wilkinson	261
Distinguish Goals from Objectives FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	972
The Drivers Model: YOUR Competitive Advantage FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	621
Execution Pitfalls	Michael Wilkinson	600
Handout for a Management Briefing on Strategy FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	1183
How Do You Engage Stakeholders in Strategy Development? FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	747
How Do You Gain Agreement On The Planning Process? FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	829
How Do You Know If Your Strategic Planning Process Is On Track?	Michael Wilkinson	777
Identify Your Critical Success Factors	Michael Wilkinson	329
Implementing Corporate Values	Michael Wilkinson	961
Implementing the Plan	Michael Wilkinson	670
Leader's Role in the Strategic Planning Retreat FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	566
Making Sure the Plan is Actionable FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	404
Making Sure Your Strategic Plan is Relevant FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	230
Management Briefing on Strategic Planning FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	559
The Masterful Strategy Meeting	Michael Wilkinson	1395
Paradigm Shifts	Michael Wilkinson	515
Positioning Strategies	Michael Wilkinson	463
Prioritizing Strategies	Michael Wilkinson	689
Scenario Planning	John Canfield	1132
Secret of the Second Curve	Michael Wilkinson	709
Setting SMART Objectives	Michael Wilkinson	575
Simplify Strategy	James Rodgers	955
Strategic Planning: A Primer	Michael Wilkinson	1194
Strategic Planning for Teenagers FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	498
Strategy Execution: Moving the Plan from Paper to Implementation FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	363
Ten Pitfalls of Strategic Planning FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	124
Thinking About Starting Your Own Business FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	599
Value in Strategy	Graham Constable	965
Values vs. Guiding Principles	Michael Wilkinson	290
Who is Your Primary Customer? FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	415

Articles For United Ways

Client Success Stories

Atlanta Youth Academy
AutoTrader.com
BoardWalk Consulting
Bodrero, Rebecca (Triumph: An Intense Facilitation Challenge)
CheckFree Corporation
Coaching with a Purpose
Coast to Coast Event Rentals, LLC
Digital Technology Industry
Families First
Georgia Association for Women Lawyers (GAWL)
Hipple&Co. Reputation Management
Independent Electrical Contractors (IEC)
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
Macquarie
Making a Difference
Manheim Auto Auctions
Marathon Oil
NASA
Phifer, Inc.
PSC, Inc.
Scotiabank
Southern Civil Engineers, Inc.
State of Vermont Homeland Security
Stockwell, Lonnie (A New Orleans Resident in Atlanta When Katrina Hits Home)
Storehouse Furniture
Tombazian, Charlie (On Gaining Consensus in a Tough Situation)
Training that Keeps on Giving: Deborah Crawford
Uni-Select
United Way of America
United Way of Central Ohio
Vertek
Weavill, Andy (On The Secrets of Facilitation)
YWCA of Greater Atlanta

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