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Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Throughout the previous chapters, we have asserted that the power of facilitation: can help us strategically think better together; can transform organizations and enable positive and sustainable cultural change, at all levels and across all business lines; can create the time and space for critical thinking to flourish and innovation to blossom; can enable individuals, […]

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4. The Power of Facilitation in Resolving Conflicts

This chapter focuses on the power of facilitation as an enabler of positive public dialogues and critical conversations and as a tool to resolve conflicts. The power of facilitation can help leaders, managers, community advocates, public dialogue professionals, mediators, facilitators and anyone who is faced with conflict. It helps to resolve disputes between individuals or […]

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1. The Power of Facilitation and Strategy

If you Google “Strategic Planning”, you will find thousands of books, articles and resources on the subject. From Porter’s Five Forces to Schumpeter’s Gales of Destruction, from Blue Ocean Strategies to Edge Strategies and from agile organizations to continuous learning organizations, there are hundreds of tools and templates, thousands of how-to guides and mountains of […]

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What is the Power of Facilitation, and Why is it Important?

“Never doubt that a small group of committed peoplecan change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has” Margaret Mead From the beginning of human history, questions about how we organize ourselves, create and innovate, strategize, make decisions and resolve disputes have been considered by philosophers, academics and thought leaders. From Plato’s […]