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

Citation

(2003), "The Fast Facilitator: 76 Facilitator Activities and Interventions Covering Essential Skills, Group Processes and Creative Techniques", Work Study, Vol. 52 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ws.2003.07952aae.003

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

Anthony Landale and Mica DouglasGowerISBN: 0 566 08393 0£195.00

When working with groups – permanently or temporarily – you need a framework to understand and address how they think, feel and behave. Facilitation provides that framework. It does not offer fixed prescriptions; instead it uses proven principles and practice to enable you to get the best out of each of the people with whom you are working.

As a facilitator, you also need to be able to adapt your style and approach to the situation you are in. This requires good self-awareness and a solid understanding of your role and responsibilities. Once this is in place you can then start to facilitate teams, coach colleagues and train groups effectively.

The authors have based their approach around both the core skills that facilitators need to develop as well as the issues they will have to face at work. It is divided into three parts – "Essential facilitation", "Groups and team facilitation", and "Creative facilitation" – offering material to suit all facilitators whatever their level of expertise.

The Fast Facilitator will help develop an understanding of facilitation as well as providing interventions and activities that you can use with others. It includes:

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  theoretical insights and models to help understand the dynamics of people management;

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  activities, exercises, games and practice sessions, which managers or trainers can use with their groups to build skills around work issues;

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  coaching ideas and techniques for managers who may want extra guidance when working one-to-one with team members; and

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  a wealth of techniques, reading sources, inspirational ideas and practical exercises for the facilitator's own self-development.

This book does a good job of illustrating the competencies that practising facilitators need to develop and shows just how this distinctive approach can make a real difference to the way people operate and the performance improvements that can be achieved.