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This Assessment Primer introduces a comprehensive model of facilitation, a self-assessment instrument used to rank your skills relative to 20 Archetypes of the Integral Facilitator, and an Action Planning guide to support your growth.

When you purchase the Assessment Primer, you are allowed to use it in your training programs and in your organizations to support the development of facilitation competencies in your students and colleagues.
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This Meeting Sux:12 Acts of Courage to Change Meetings For Good

Many of us are frustrated with our leaders at all levels.  We are realizing that it is time to take intentional acts of leadership ourselves, even when we are not in charge.

This is the first practical guide that contains the knowledge, skills, and action steps that you, as a meeting participant, can use to change meetings for good. . Bring this timely information and a willingness to “act now” in your meetings, and you will be a formidable force for change in your organization.

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Staying Healthy in Sick Organizations

Staying Healthy in Sick Organizations: The Clover Practice™., by Kathleen Paris. The Clover Practice™ offers less stress and more peace of mind at the end of the work day. The practice comes from Paris’s 20-plus years as a management consultant and, like a clover, consists of three principles:

Tell the Truth, Always
Speak for Yourself
Declare Your Interdependence

All three of these principles are simple, but not easy to live. Paris says, “If peace of mind is the aim, we need to be truthful even when it’s not convenient and even when we don’t look too good. White lies even compromise our integrity and the degree to which others trust us. This doesn’t mean we say everything that comes to mind. We don’t have to share our opinions on everything. They are just our opinions, after all, and not eternal truths.”

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Facilitating at a Distance: The Essentials of Teleclass and Virtual Meeting Facilitation Guidebook

Facilitating at a Distance--The Essentials of Teleclass and Virtual Meeting Facilitation Guidebook. Have you considered offering a teleclass as a more efficient way to deliver training, enhance group learning and generate more income for your business?  Or, are you working with a distributed team that requires you to design and facilitate virtual meetings?

When done right, Teleclasses and Virtual Meetings (T/VM) are very effective and inexpensive ways to train, collaborate, and problem-solve. But if they aren't effectively facilitated, T/VM's can be a boring waste of time! This ebook covers all the elements of T/VM facilitation using a simple, well-organized, and proven experiential approach. This book is for anyone who would like to facilitate, manage, teach, mediate, coach, counsel, or direct any group using teleconferences in their business. ==> preview

The Facilitator's Checklist Collection. Running a group can get complicated and there's lots to forget. These handy checklists can really help refresh your memory and add to your effectiveness in no time.

This ebook contains over 25 Checklists on many aspects of facilitation such as agenda development, intervention, participation, processing, etc. ==> preview

The Facilitation Models Collection. A good model that fits your style of leadership and your particular situation can be priceless. It's like finding a map you've been searching for and finally finding it.

This 30-page collection contains 20 models on practically every aspect of group facilitation including decision-making, communication, intervention, teamwork, training, and more. ==> preview

The Facilitator Questions Collection. This 35-page collection contains 20 sets of questions grouped according to the many themes upon which groups typically focus. Use these lists in preparation for working with a group or use them as catalysts for the development of your own questions.

Getting Full Participation Guidebook. This downloadable Facilitator Guide explores Getting Full Participation more completely than any other document we've seen.

- No fluff! This guide is practical, easy to read, with ideas and actions you can use right away.
- Includes a full training license so that you can teach this material to others.
- Includes tools and perspectives that will help your group members understand what it means to participate fully.
- Illustrated 25-page guide will help you to drill down deep and master the art of facilitating Full Participation in any situation.
- This information-packed guide is a must to include in your personal Facilitator's Toolkit.
- Includes 3 bonuses including an audio portion that answers real world problems in getting Full Participation from group members.

Intervene With Confidence Guide. According to our readers, and in our own experience, Group "Intervention" is one of the most challenging skills to develop as a facilitator. So, we are especially pleased to announce the release of our second Facilitator Guides for Group Intervention.

- "Intervene With Confidence" is practical, easy to read, with models, tips, and strategies you can use right away.
- Includes an audio portion that answers real world problems around Intervention.
- Includes models that will help you decide when and when not to Intervene, how deep to Intervene, and how to Intervene gracefully.
- This downloadable, illustrated 33-page guide will help you to drill down deep and master the art of Intervention in any situation.
- This information-packed guide is a must to include in your personal Facilitator's Toolkit.

Becoming a Learning Facilitator Guide. This downloadable 55-page ebook is packed with useful models, strategies, and approaches to enlivening your approach to teaching and training based on an Integral Learning Model.
- Learning Content. Explores the context and scope of learning content.
- The Learning Facilitator. Explores role distinctions, making the shift from director to guide, core values of the learning facilitator, getting full participation, and a trainer self-assessment.
- Learning Models. Examines 8 different learning models to help round out the delivery of learning based on perspectives and learning styles.
- Learning Culture. Explores the elements required to develop a "Learning Culture."
- Learning Strategies. Examines 4 different learning strategies: the Kolb Learning Cycle, Instruction Events, Socratic Method, and Open Space Technology.

For those of you looking to bring a new uplifting perspective to Emotional Intelligence for your clients.

An Integral Approach to EI
The materials are structured around four quadrants that cover the following aspects of emotional intelligence:

I-Awareness or Self-Awareness
Managing Actions and Behaviors of Self
We-Awareness or group awareness
Managing Actions and Behaviors of the Group

The common thread that runs through these four aspects is the ‘Resilience Factor’ or the ability to be aware, open, flexible and courageous to manage the actions and behaviors of the self and the group.

This course is designed to accomplish the following learning objectives.
Empower yourself and others
Learn the art of emotional mastery
Enhance your negotiation power
Manage emotions and communicate effectively in challenging situations
Understand how to expand personal influence
Expand your ability to be creative and innovative

Includes Powerpoint Presentation, License to Present the course yourself and student Workbook

View further details of the course here

Preview the first chapter of the course

Partner Products

Group Facilitation Tool: Maestro Conference

A Revolutionary Way to Conduct
Teleseminars and Virtual Meetings

The old model for running teleseminars is broken. How can I say that? Because I've participated in a lot of them, and I've run a lot of them myself. Here are the problems as I see it:

   1. All the beeps and "background noise" drives me absolutely nuts.

   2. Teleseminars are mostly 1-way: Me talking to everybody else. Very little engagement.

   3. Most conference call systems stink. They really do. Talk to anybody who's been doing
   teleseminars for very long and you'll hear the same thing.

Anyway, my point is not to "dog" teleseminars (the model itself is very good)...
but rather to introduce you to new technology that makes teleseminars WAY better.

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Meeting Mentor Software Tool from Mindsights

Successful Teams …  Need Successful Meetings. MindSights Meeting Mentor empowers any meeting leader with professional facilitation skills to run successful meetings, every time.    

The Growing Need for Quality Meetings

Patrick Lencioni, author of the popular book Death by Meeting says; “As more of what people do takes place in teams, meetings become the setting in which the really important work gets done. Team and organizational success is becoming more dependant on the quality of its meetings.”

The Meeting Productivity Crisis

The book “How to Make Meeting Work” was written by Michael Doyle over 40 years ago. Yet, current studies still show up to 30% of meetings are unproductive. This equates to over $11 billion dollars of lost US productivity each year.  So what’s the solution?

The Meeting Productivity Solution

Running effective meeting can be very difficult.  But as professional meeting facilitators knows, the critical success factor is NOT about preparing an Agenda but about running the meeting as a Process and elevating meeting participants thinking effectiveness. Skilled meeting leaders do this by using four facilitation skills:

1. Finding the right 2-3 critical questions to ask meeting participants.
2. Bringing the right “cognitive” tools to the meeting.
3. Clearly identifying the meeting purpose and outcomes.
4. Facilitating meeting process and flow.

The Answer: MindSights Meeting Mentor (MMM)  See Demo

MMM emulates how skilled meeting leaders function and empowers any meeting leader with these same facilitation skills needed to run successful meetings – every time.

This unique self-mentoring software product can benefit you in the following ways.

1. Help the skilled meeting leader find the right questions to ask and tools to use
2. Facilitate the novice meeting leader through the entire process to planning and delivering great meetings.
3. Jump-start any meeting leaders planning with pre-developed meetings.
4. Use MMM “as is” or customize to fit your meeting.

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