Not Just Another Meeting: Creative Strategies for Facilitation

INTRODUCTION

After decades as consultants, teachers, and facilitators, we continue to see the need to provide leaders with tools, skills, and strategies for building more effective teams and organizations. Twenty years ago, Rod wrote the first of four books dedicated to translating strategic “designs” into a language accessible to leaders, managers, and particularly facilitators. These simple yet in-depth solution models were designed to help solve a problem, resolve a conflict, make a decision, or address anything else that might block the team, meeting, or organization from reaching a goal.

It should have been a no-brainer: proven ways to improve either team or meeting effectiveness, almost as easy as painting by numbers. However, it took years ...