Facilitating Collaboration: Notes On Facilitation For Experienced Collaborators

Combining nearly two decades of facilitating organizational transformations and workshop/meeting strategies for Fortune 25 companies, international governments and non-profit institutions, Brandon and Dan share the steps and critical approach to help you evolve from traditional facilitation to advanced collaboration. Learn directly from successful conversions at Google (the start of Google Apps) and the Arab League (22 country collaboration) as well as a regional non-profit (improving diversity) and local school (transformations). This book is not a toolkit or step by step guide, but rather you should already be an experienced collaborator and facilitator. You will learn directly The Facilitator's 6 Jobs: Scoping Understanding what the client wants. Scoping an event involves clarifying what outcomes the client is seeking, how these outcomes will be put to use to achieve broader objectives, what decisions have already been taken, and what topics will not be addressed. (see Chapter 3) Working with Sponsors Building a trusting relationship with the sponsors about content. Event sponsors will only trust an outside facilitator to shape critical work with a large team if he or she invests the time and care to understand the business issue at hand and the personal and political challenges faced by sponsors. (see Chapter 4) Preparation Assembling the elements

• | Author: Brandon Klein, Dan Newman
• | Publisher: Value Web, The
• | Publication Date: Jul 04, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 164 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0692689257
• | ISBN-13: 9780692689257