The Fast Facilitator: 76 Facilitator Activities and Interventions Covering Essential Skills, Group Processes, and Creative Techniques

The Fast Facilitator: 76 Facilitator Activities and Interventions Covering Essential Skills, Group Processes, and Creative Techniques

by Anthony Landale, Mica Douglas
Released December 2007
Publisher(s): HRD Press
ISBN: 9781599961354

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Book description

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. 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.

Table of contents

  1. The Fast Facilitator: 76 Facilitator Activities and Interventions Covering Essential Skills, Group Processes, and Creative Techniques
    1. Copyright
    2. Key Issues: A Quick Guide (1/2)
    3. Key Issues: A Quick Guide (2/2)
    4. Introduction
    5. PART ONE: Essential Facilitation
      1. Chapter 1.1: What Is Facilitation? (1/2)
      2. Chapter 1.1: What Is Facilitation? (2/2)
        1. Activity 1 Different Strokes for Different Folks
        2. Activity 2 Open Space
      3. Chapter 1.2: The Qualities of the Facilitator (1/2)
      4. Chapter 1.2: The Qualities of the Facilitator (2/2)
        1. Activity 3 Physical Realities
        2. Activity 4 Object Lessons
      5. Chapter 1.3: Self-Awareness (1/2)
      6. Chapter 1.3: Self-Awareness (2/2)
        1. Activity 5 Empty Pockets
        2. Activity 6 Shoe Swapping
        3. Activity 7 Lifelines
      7. Chapter 1.4: Beginnings (1/2)
      8. Chapter 1.4: Beginnings (2/2)
        1. Activity 8 Four-Way Meetings
        2. Activity 9 My Friend in the Chair
        3. Activity 10 Ritual Beginnings
      9. Chapter 1.5: Planning and Structuring (1/2)
      10. Chapter 1.5: Planning and Structuring (2/2)
        1. Activity 11 Group-Planning Checklist
        2. Activity 12 Worst-Case Scenario
        3. Activity 13 Collaboration Checklist
      11. Chapter 1.6: Drawing Up a Group Contract (1/2)
      12. Chapter 1.6: Drawing Up a Group Contract (2/2)
        1. Activity 14 A Model for Group Work
        2. Activity 15 Con Tricks
      13. Chapter 1.7: Valuing Yourself and Others (1/2)
      14. Chapter 1.7: Valuing Yourself and Others (2/2)
        1. Activity 16 I notice, I imagine, I feel
        2. Activity 17 Self-Disclosure
        3. Activity 18 What car?
      15. Chapter 1.8: Managing Feelings (1/2)
      16. Chapter 1.8: Managing Feelings (2/2)
        1. Activity 19 Speechless
        2. Activity 20 Like the Plague
        3. Activity 21 Family Drama
      17. Chapter 1.9: Skillful Challenge (1/2)
      18. Chapter 1.9: Skillful Challenge (2/2)
        1. Activity 22 Nice Price
        2. Activity 23 Difficult People
        3. Activity 24 Conflict Resolution
      19. Chapter 1.10: Facilitating Feedback (1/2)
      20. Chapter 1.10: Facilitating Feedback (2/2)
        1. Activity 25 Feedback Review
        2. Activity 26 Who am I to you?
    6. PART TWO: Group and Team Facilitation
      1. Chapter 2.1: Group Process: Inclusion (1/2)
      2. Chapter 2.1: Group Process: Inclusion (2/2)
        1. Activity 27 Understanding Inclusion
        2. Activity 28 Rope Tricks
      3. Chapter 2.2: Group Process: Control (1/2)
      4. Chapter 2.2: Group Process: Control (2/2)
        1. Activity 29 Understanding Control
        2. Activity 30 Power Line
        3. Activity 31 Thumb War
      5. Chapter 2.3: Group Process: Openness (1/2)
      6. Chapter 2.3: Group Process: Openness (2/2)
        1. Activity 32 Understanding Openness
        2. Activity 33 Three-Legged Search
      7. Chapter 2.4: Understanding Roles in Teams (1/2)
      8. Chapter 2.4: Understanding Roles in Teams (2/2)
        1. Activity 34 Picture Boxes
        2. Activity 35 Truthful Communication
      9. Chapter 2.5: Facilitator Authority (1/2)
      10. Chapter 2.5: Facilitator Authority (2/2)
        1. Activity 36 Power Plays
        2. Activity 37 Dimensions of Authority
      11. Chapter 2.6: When and How to Intervene (1/2)
      12. Chapter 2.6: When and How to Intervene (2/2)
        1. Activity 38 Pay Attention
        2. Activity 39 Vacation Choices
      13. Chapter 2.7: Working with Diversity (1/2)
      14. Chapter 2.7: Working with Diversity (2/2)
        1. Activity 40 Little Boxes
        2. Activity 41 Pebble Power
        3. Activity 42 Power Grid
      15. Chapter 2.8: Working with Scapegoating (1/2)
      16. Chapter 2.8: Working with Scapegoating (2/2)
        1. Activity 43 Dynamic Defenses
        2. Activity 44 The Bomb
      17. Chapter 2.9: Negotiation Skills (1/2)
      18. Chapter 2.9: Negotiation Skills (2/2)
        1. Activity 45 What I Want
        2. Activity 46 I Want it More
        3. Activity 47 Getting to “Yes”
      19. Chapter 2.10: Facilitator Support (1/2)
      20. Chapter 2.10: Facilitator Support (2/2)
        1. Activity 48 What I Expect
        2. Activity 49 Risk and Failure
    7. PART THREE: Creative Facilitation
      1. Chapter 3.1: One-to-One Facilitation (1/2)
      2. Chapter 3.1: One-to-One Facilitation (2/2)
        1. Activity 50 One-to-One Skills Building
        2. Activity 51 Hands-on Coaching
        3. Activity 52 In-Depth One-to-One Practice
      3. Chapter 3.2: Powering Up Self-Confidence (1/2)
      4. Chapter 3.2: Powering Up Self-Confidence (2/2)
        1. Activity 53 Trying “Not to Lose”
        2. Activity 54 Hot Seat
        3. Activity 55 Body Talk
      5. Chapter 3.3: Facilitating without Words (1/2)
      6. Chapter 3.3: Facilitating without Words (2/2)
        1. Activity 56 Beyond Words
        2. Activity 57 Under the Carpet
        3. Activity 58 Waiting for Godot
      7. Chapter 3.4: Defense Patterns (1/2)
      8. Chapter 3.4: Defense Patterns (2/2)
        1. Activity 59 On the Defensive
        2. Activity 60 It Ain’t Easy
      9. Chapter 3.5: Consultancy Skills (1/2)
      10. Chapter 3.5: Consultancy Skills (2/2)
        1. Activity 61 Time Bandits
        2. Activity 62 Conscious Intuition
      11. Chapter 3.6: Working in the Here and Now (1/2)
      12. Chapter 3.6: Working in the Here and Now (2/2)
        1. Activity 63 Multiple Personalities
        2. Activity 64 One-Word Snapshot
        3. Activity 65 Attending
      13. Chapter 3.7: Creative Facilitation (1/2)
      14. Chapter 3.7: Creative Facilitation (2/2)
        1. Activity 66 Creative Circle
        2. Activity 67 Bigger and Better
      15. Chapter 3.8: Imaginal Work (1/2)
      16. Chapter 3.8: Imaginal Work (2/2)
        1. Activity 68 The Picture I Get
        2. Activity 69 The Moon
        3. Activity 70 Animals and Elements
      17. Chapter 3.9: Using Stories to Facilitate Learning (1/2)
      18. Chapter 3.9: Using Stories to Facilitate Learning (2/2)
        1. Activity 71 The Golden Fleece
        2. Activity 72 Heroes and Villains
      19. Chapter 3.10: Endings (1/2)
      20. Chapter 3.10: Endings (2/2)
        1. Activity 73 Self- and Peer-Assessment
        2. Activity 74 Five W-H
        3. Activity 75 Cutting the Ties
        4. Activity 76 Group Gifts

Product information

  • Title: The Fast Facilitator: 76 Facilitator Activities and Interventions Covering Essential Skills, Group Processes, and Creative Techniques
  • Author(s): Anthony Landale, Mica Douglas
  • Release date: December 2007
  • Publisher(s): HRD Press
  • ISBN: 9781599961354