Facilitation
Online Tools and Resources
The Community Toolbox
http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/
The Community Toolbox offers "how to tools" sections in simple and user-friendly language to explain different tasks necessary for community health development (though they can be applied to any community organization), including facilitation. Chapter 16, section 2, includes a description of the task, advantage of doing it, step-by-step guidelines, examples, checklists of points to review, and training materials.
Interaction Associates
http://www.interactionassociates.com/html/previous_tips_techniques.html
Interaction Associates offers tips and tools for effective faciliation, leadership, meeting managment and teamwork on their website.
EffectiveMeetings.com
http://www.effectivemeetings.com
The EffectiveMeetings.com resource center offers hands-on meeting advice for every possible situation.
TheFacilitator.com
http://www.thefacilitator.com
TheFacilitator.com resource center provides a variety of resources about facilitation.
Management Assistance Programs for Nonprofits
http://www.mapfornonprofits.org/
This website offers information and resources for nonprofit management on a wide variety of topics, including facilitation.
Suggested Reading
Bens, Ingrid. 2000. Facilitating With Ease! A Step-By-Step Guidebook with Customizable Worksheets on CD-ROM. This guide contains easy-to-follow instructions, techniques and hands-on tools that have been used to teach thousands of team leaders, consultants, supervisors and beginning managers how to facilitate with ease. Complete with worksheets on CD-ROM that can be customized to fit personal needs, it isa complete facilitation workshop in take-home form.
Kelsey, Dee and Plumb, Pam. 1999. Great Meetings! How to Facilitate Like a Pro. This book is designed to help you understand the various preparation and design steps that will assist you in planning effective meetings. It provides a wide variety of facilitation tools and techniques for managing meetings well.
Hunter, Dale, et al. 1995 The Art of Facilitation: How to Create Group Synergy. This book is a training resource for facilitators and enables group members to underderstand group facilitation and to take on this role themselves. This book provides access to the source of group empowerment and shows how to create group synergy. Insights, tools and resources are included to help a group work easily and more effectively together.
Hacket, Donald and et al. 1993. Facilitation Skills for Team Builders (50 Minutes). This book is a hands-on, practical guide for making teams work. From defining a vision for their organization to making that vision a reality, the reader will learn how to manage meetings and teams, deal with difficult members, and ask questions that produce results. This book provides exercises, tools and ideas so that the reader will become an effective, empowering facilitator and an even greater asset totheir organization.
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