Facilitation Skills: Focused Communication Processes in Groups

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This book provides compact and well-founded moderation skills for all those who want to successfully lead meetings, workshops or project rounds. Where this succeeds, communication processes in groups will lead to goal-oriented, effective and efficient results - whether virtually or in presence.

The author systematically shows how the exchange of information in such discussion groups can be cleverly thought out, dynamically accompanied and effectively controlled. With goal-oriented questions, methodical impulses and different formats of participation, it is possible to solve problems together in the group, to clarify conflicts, to develop sustainable ideas and to make good decisions.

At the end of such events, there is added value for everyone: satisfied participants, sustainable results and a cooperative meeting culture, which form the basis for lasting corporate success.

 

"An enrichment despite the multitude of books on the subject." Dr. Joachim Freimuth, ZOE, 01/2019.

 

"This practical book provides a timely handout for the many challenges facing dynamic facilitation." Prof. Kai Beiderwellen, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences

 

"The book is an invitation to deepen and reflexively develop one's own role." Dr. Wolfgang Widulle, Socialnet.de

 

 

New in the second edition: chapters on virtual facilitation, collaborative learning and tried and tested structural aids, templates, checklists and project outlines as downloads.

 


Author(s): Stefan Gross
Publisher: Springer Gabler
Year: 2023

Language: English
Pages: 196
City: Wiesbaden

Foreword
Preface to the English edition
Contents
1: Why Facilitation?
References
2: What Characterizes Good Facilitation?
2.1 Knowledge and Skills
2.2 Perception and Action
2.3 The Fields of Competence
References
3: Using Methods Correctly
3.1 Choosing the Right Method
3.2 Professional Craft
References
4: Managing Group Processes
4.1 Facilitating Along Process Flows
4.2 Settings Have Effects
4.3 Structuring and Organizing Topics
4.4 Rules and Levers for Communication Processes
References
5: Distinguishing Tasks and Causes
5.1 Solving Problems
5.2 Making Good Decisions
5.3 Clarifying Conflicts
5.4 Facilitating Innovation Processes
5.5 Learning Together
References
6: Including Organization and Context
6.1 Identifying Influencing Factors
6.2 Ensuring Transfer and Connectivity
References
7: Establishing Relationship and Contact
7.1 The Triangular Relationship Between the Actors
7.2 Proximity and Distance
References
8: Developing Role Clarity and Self-Image
8.1 With Balance and Ease
8.2 The Expert Status of the Facilitator
8.3 Process Design, Information Control and Interaction Support
References
9: Using Visualization Effectively
9.1 Visual Intervention Tools
9.2 Control Components
References
10: Virtual Facilitation
References
11: Learning to Facilitate
11.1 Entering Learning and Transfer Spaces
11.2 Outlook
References
Further Reading