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Live In Conversation with the Authors of the book ‘Power of Facilitation’

Saturday, 28 August 2021, 15:30 IST Mumbai Thank you very much indeed to Shalaka Gundi of IAF India for hosting this webinar of the International Association of Facilitators! Interact live with contributors to the book to hear about their experiences and insights while writing the book: Malin Morén, co-author of chapter 2 “Facilitating Change and […]

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5. The Power of Facilitation for Team Development

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organisational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. Andrew Carnegie Group facilitation generates conditions similar to the behaviours, social context and practices of high-performance teams. What we mean is that fruitful […]

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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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3. The Power of Facilitation for Critical Thinking

Today, the speed and volume of information can be overwhelming. Critical thinking skills give people the tools they need to actively listen and critically consume information. Critical thinkers challenge assumptions and zero in on the information that leads to the path of innovation rather than complacency. The process of becoming a “thinking organization” begins with […]

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Meet the Authors: The Power of Facilitation Panel Discussion

Wednesday, July 7, 2021 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM GMT+1 To celebrate the release of The Power of Facilitation, the Facilitation Stories podcast team of IAF England & Wales have organised a panel discussion with some of the book’s contributors: Hector Villarreal Lozoya, author of chapter 5 “The Power of Facilitation For Team Development” Martin Gilbraith, co-author […]

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2. Facilitating Change and Transformation

In this chapter, we share our experience of how to create and develop facilitative competencies and skills. Enabling internal people to facilitate change and transformation, with external facilitators as support. With this ‘train-the-facilitator’ approach, the organization builds its own facilitator competencies. Also, the role of a facilitator becomes well known in the organization and becomes […]

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Meet the authors to share Facilitation Insights

Thu, July 1, 2021, 18:00–19:30 CEST Join us in this session of the IAF Europe & Middle East webinar series Facilitation Insights, where contributors to our new book will share something of their experience of the Power of Facilitation and invite you to share something of yours.

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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 […]

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Now available!

“This book is an eye-opener for how the power of facilitation can help us work together more effectively to achieve even better results.” Katarina Berg, Spotify, Chief Human Resources Officer & Global head of Strategy Operations Download We are excited to share with you the Power of Facilitation! The book is a compilation of chapters written […]