The Facilitator Excellence Handbook

This is the thoroughly revised and updated edition of the best-selling The Facilitator Excellence Handbook. Written for both new and experienced facilitators, the second edition of The Facilitator Excellence Handbook offers a comprehensive guide for understanding the full range of skills, processes, and knowledge needed to become an effective facilitator.  The book addresses a variety of facilitation opportunities, challenges, and problems and also contains

• A variety of verbal and nonverbal facilitation techniques
• Step-by-step facilitation processes and tools
• Information on how to facilitate conflict resolution in groups and how to facilitate difficult situations
• Instructions for designing and leading group work
• Examples of how various levels of facilitator competency are called for in different types of groups
• Techniques for facilitating meetings, teams, virtual teams, and organization-wide projects
• Discussions on the art of facilitating and what makes a great facilitator

The Facilitator Excellence Handbook

Second edition

This is the thoroughly revised and updated edition of the best-selling The Facilitator Excellence Handbook. Written for both new and experienced facilitators, the second edition of The Facilitator Excellence Handbook offers a comprehensive guide for understanding the full range of skills, processes, and knowledge needed to become an effective facilitator. The book addresses a variety of facilitation opportunities, challenges, and problems and also contains

• A variety of verbal and nonverbal facilitation techniques
• Step-by-step facilitation processes and tools
• Information on how to facilitate conflict resolution in groups and how to facilitate difficult situations
• Instructions for designing and leading group work
• Examples of how various levels of facilitator competency are called for in different types of groups
• Techniques for facilitating meetings, teams, virtual teams, and organization-wide projects
• Discussions on the art of facilitating and what makes a great facilitator

The CD-ROM that accompanies this book includes a fully reproducible version of the Facilitator Skills Profile, which provides insight into a facilitator's key development areas.

Fran Rees is an experienced manager, consultant, and trainer in both the public and private sectors. She is the owner and principal consultant of Rees & Associates, a Phoenix-based training and consulting firm. She is the author of several books including How to Lead Work Teams: Facilitation Skills (Second Edition), Teamwork from Start to Finish, and 25 Activities for Developing Team Leaders, all from Pfeiffer.