Leadership Strategies - The Facilitation Company

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
A Step Above the Rest: The Certified Master Facilitator Program FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	1222
Affordable Web-based Meetings for Facilitators FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	507
Are You a Masterful Meeting Participant? FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	917
Are You Making This Facilitation Faux Pas FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	726
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
Best Practices for Interactive Virtual Learning	Cynthia Clay	1001
Building Consensus: The Art of Getting to YES	Michael Wilkinson	1363
Masterful 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
Crossing the River - Team Building Activity	Michael Wilkinson	1036
Do Great Trainers Make Great Meeting Facilitators?	Michael Wilkinson	837
Do You Have the Soul of a Facilitator FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	563
Facilitating an Action Plan Review Session FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	1118
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
Keeping Meetings Focused: The Checkpoint FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	1103
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
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
Strategies for Eliminating Unnecessary Meetings	Michael Wilkinson	313
Suprise! You're Facilitating THIS Meeting!	Michael Wilkinson	912
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
Using Facilitation to Beat the Economic Trend	Michael Wilkinson	802
The What, The Why, The How	Michael Wilkinson	579
Why Use a Facilitator? FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	533
Wrap-up Activities for Training Professionals FREE!	Christina Douglas	917
The Power of the Pen FREE!	Michael Wilkinson	1073

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