Our ultimate goal with this book is to help individuals, groups, organizations and societies to grow, expand and thrive by applying the power of facilitation in their own context.Īs a decision-maker, you can harness the power of facilitation by being a facilitative leader. Our aim is to both speak to the converted and to help others to discover this power.
This book was written as a collaborative effort by a group of dedicated and, yes fanatical, facilitators. So how do I harness it?ĭiscovering the power of facilitation is the most important step towards harnessing its strength and potential. OK, I’m convinced of the Power of Facilitation. We think the results you get will then inspire you to explore facilitation further. We invite you to take on the stance of a facilitator.
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We want you to explore how to help your teams and communities think better together. We want you to experiment with the power of facilitation and utilize some of the ideas in this book. That being said, our deepest hope is that we have ignited a spark in you. It is also what is necessary to move our groups, organizations and societies forward. The skills, knowledge and attitudes of the facilitator-all underpinned by a deeply held philosophical belief in the power of facilitation-are what enables the types of transformative impacts described throughout this book. It is not only derived from the way we facilitate, but also the way think and act as facilitators. We believe that the power of facilitation is derived from the competence, ethics, and also the stance of the facilitator. In our experience, an exclusive focus on tools fails to unleash the true transformative impact that we know facilitation can ignite. Nor have we ever intonated it is pointless or hopeless.įacilitation methods and tools are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to helping people think better together. However, throughout the preceding chapters we have not once said it was easy. i That is, we realize, a daunting task that some would say is even a bit fanatical. In this book, we have strived to make the case for the power of facilitation to be harnessed by us all-individuals, leaders, organizations and societies-to solve seemingly unsolvable problems. Thinking together is key, and facilitation is the engine to get us there! We believe the impacts of the power of facilitation described in this book, offers us hope for the future and provides actionable, concrete steps that can help each of us-our groups, our organizations and our communities-to evolve, explore and grow a better shared future.
Perhaps we would have evolved to somewhere even better than where we find ourselves now, if the power of facilitation had been a bit more evident a bit earlier. However, humans have been able to evolve and create many positive advances through collaboration and intentional conversations throughout our history. While some people might feel that where we have evolved to today is not a good thing, that is a discussion for another time. is ageless and is one of the reasons, and possibly a key reason, that humans have evolved to where we are today.can help us individually identify and reach our innermost aspirations and our highest potential and,.can help groups of disparate individuals evolve into high performing teams and collaborate at a higher level.can enable individuals, groups and nations to resolve conflicts constructively, moving from a mentality of “beat and defeat” to “together we can”.can create the time and space for critical thinking to flourish and innovation to blossom.can transform organizations and enable positive and sustainable cultural change, at all levels and across all business lines.can help us strategically think better together.Throughout the previous chapters, we have asserted that the power of facilitation:
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