Skilled facilitators bring significant value to meetings. Including a strong facilitator in your next meeting is one of the best proactive steps a leader can to take to ensure its success.
Facilitators free up participants to engage fully in the meeting’s content. Participants focus their complete attention on addressing issues and creating opportunities for your organization while the facilitator manages process and tools and ensures a safe environment in which all opinions are valued.
Facilitators from The Wunderlin Company are highly skilled and are experienced working with senior level groups, complex groups and groups with interpersonal challenges. We’re passionate about creating, with every engagement, a productive environment, where you can most effectively do your work.
Creating that productive environment frequently requires team development.
At The Wunderlin Company we believe all highly effective teams share five characteristics.
They all
- have common goals to which all team members are collectively committed
- have clearly defined roles and responsibilities
- are capable of effective interpersonal relationships
- have clear, simple and consistent processes
- have strong,fluid shared leadership
We develop and nurture these characteristics in your teams by using Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® and other assessments to find the strengths and weaknesses in communication skills. We also identify differences in communication styles and help you appreciate and work with those different styles.
Facilitation (General)
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Tips for Leading Efficient, Effective, and Enjoyable Meetings
What Is Working Around Here? Positive Image. Positive Energy. Positive Action.
Visit this site to get ideas, tools, and approaches for infusing your work with creativity! http://www.directedcreativity.com/
The International Association of Facilitators is a tremendous resource for facilitators of all experience levels. Their recent conference was terrific. Visit this site to see the conference proceedings and to learn more about IAF. http://iaf-world.org/
If you are interested in games and game design in learning about simulations, look at the NASAGA site http://www.nasaga.org
Facilitating with Ease: A Step-By-Step Guidebook with Customizable Worksheets on CD-ROM by Ingrid Bens. Contains tips, tools, and wisdom for facilitation. Includes a CD-ROM with customizable worksheets to fit your needs.
The Skilled Facilitator by Roger Schwarz. Guides groups to realizing their creative and problem-solving potential.
The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge. The blueprints of organizational change, people expanding, and how to get results.
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook by Peter Senge, Richard Ross, Bryan Smith, Charlotte Roberts and Art Kleiner. How to bring the five learning disciplines to life in your organization.
Future Search: An Action Guide to Finding Common Ground in Organizations and Communities by Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff. Principles, techniques, and examples to plan the future.
Large Group Interventions: Engaging the Whole System for Rapid Change by Barbara Benedict Bunker and Billie T. Alban. An overview of 12 methods of large-group interventions.
The Six Sigma Handbook, Revised and Expanded: The Complete Guide for Greenbelts, Blackbelts, and Managers at All Levels by Thomas Pyzdek. A description of the statistical tools and problem-solving techniques that comprise six sigma and how to use them.
Appreciative Inquiry/Positive Psychology
Appreciative Inquiry Handbook: The First in a Series of AI Workbooks for Leaders of Change (Paperback) by David L., Ph.D. Cooperrider (Editor), Diana, Ph.D. Whitney (Editor), Jacqueline M. Stavros (Editor)
Appreciative Inquiry: Rethinking Human Organization Toward a Positive Theory of Change (Paperback) by David L. Cooperrider (Editor), Jr. Sorensen Peter F. (Editor), Diana Whitney (Editor), Therese F Yaeger (Editor)
Appreciative Team Building : Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best of Your Team (Paperback) by Jay Cherney, Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom, Ron Fry
Encyclopedia of Positive Questions, Volume I: Using AI to Bring Out the Best in Your Organization (Paperback) by Diana L. Whitney, David L. Cooperrider, Brian S. Kaplin, Amanda Trosten-Bloom, Diana Whitney, et al David Cooperrider
The Appreciative Inquiry Summit: A Practitioner’s Guide for Leading Large-Group Change (Paperback) by James D. Ludema, Diana Whitney, Bernard J. Mohr, Thomas J. Griffin (Editor)
The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change (Paperback) by Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom, David Cooperrider
Lessons From the Field: Applying Appreciative Inquiry (Revised Edition) (Paperback) by Sue Annis Hammond, Cathy Royal (Editor)
The Nonprofits’ Guide to the Power of Appreciative Inquiry, Carolyn J. Miller, Cristina R. Aguilar, Linda Maslowski, Donna McDaniel, Michael J. Mantel
Using Appreciative Inquiry in Evaluation, New Directions for Evaluation, No. 100 (Paperback) by Hallie Preskill (Editor), Anne T. Coghlan (Editor)
If you’d like to learn more about Appreciative Inquiry, a model which creates positive, generative, sustainable change by identifying and expanding the “positive core” of issues, visit: http://appreciativeinquiry.cwru.edu/. The site is devoted to the fullest sharing of academic resources and practical tools on Appreciative Inquiry and the rapidly growing discipline of positive change.