Resources for Facilitators
Sections in This Topic Include:
Key Topics in Facilitation
Understanding Organizations, Business
and Management
Understanding Organizational Change
Preparing to Facilitate
Skills in Guiding Individuals (coaching,
counseling, mentoring, etc.)
Interpersonal Skills (etiquette, office
politics, difficult people, etc.)
Personal Wellness, Development and Productivity
Other Topics in Business and Management
Organizations, Libraries and Online Groups/Lists
Organizations That Include Focus on
Facilitation
- - - National
- - - Local
International
Association of Facilitator's Virtual Library
Key Topics in Facilitation
Each of the following topics includes numerous online free articles about basics, general resources, online discussion groups and links to related topics.
Appreciative
Inquiry
Committees
Conflict
Management
Consulting
Dialoguing
Ethics
Facilitation
-- Learning About Basics
Facilitating
in Face-to-Face Groups
Facilitating
Online Groups (virtual communities)
Feedback
(giving and sharing)
Focus
Groups
Group-Based
Problem Solving and Decision Making
Group
Dynamics
Group
Learning
Group
Performance Management
Ice
Breakers and Warmup Activities
Interviews
(many kinds)
Large-Scale
Interventions
Listening
Meeting
Management
Non-Verbal
Communications
Open-Space
Technology
Presenting
Questioning
Self-Directed
and Self-Managed Work Teams
Team
Building
Virtual
Teams
Understanding Organizations, Management and Leadership
Facilitators benefit greatly from an understanding of the larger context within which leaders, managers and employees work. Each of the following links is to a vast amount of information and materials that explain this larger context. The following links are listed in the order in which readers might best begin to understand organizations, management and leadership.
Introduction
to Organizations
Introduction
to Management
Group
Dynamics
Introduction
to Leadership
Basic
Overview of Supervision
Chief
Executive Role
Boards
of Directors
Understanding Organizational Change
Today's organizations are undergoing change like never before. Facilitators should understand the forces provoking these changes and the resulting effects on organizations. This understanding must start with basic knowledge of organizations, guidelines and techniques of organizational change, and major methods for change. Organizational change is best carried out with strong understanding of techniques in planning (strategic planning, business planning, etc.), organizing and coordinating resources, communicating change and evaluating results of change. The following links are arranged in an order to help the reader accomplish strong understanding of change in organizations.
Introduction
to Organizations
Organizational
Change
Organizational
Performance Management (many methods for change)
Planning
(many kinds, including strategic planning, business planning,
etc.)
Organizing
(many kinds)
Coordinating
Activities (the management function)
Organizational
Communications
Evaluating
(many kinds)
Preparing to Facilitate
It's difficult to facilitate -- to help group members decide
the purpose of their group and how to work toward that purpose
-- unless you clearly are ready to facilitate. The following article
will help you.
Preparing
to Facilitate
Skills in Guiding Individuals
Facilitation, although carried out in groups, can include various practices to influence individual group members. The following links are to information and materials that help facilitators gain understanding of major types of skills in guiding individuals.
Coaching
Counseling
Delegating
Leading
Morale
(Boosting)
Mentoring
Motivating
Power
and Influence
Interpersonal Skills
Facilitators require strong skills in dealing with the various issues that arise when groups form, storm, norm, perform, etc. The following links reference information and materials that help facilitators develop these critical skills.
Building
Trust
Conflict
(Interpersonal)
Etiquette
(Manners)
Handling
Difficult People
Valuing
Diversity
Negotiating
Office
Politics
Personal Wellness, Development and Productivity
In addition to helping individual group members, facilitators must take care of themselves and their careers. The following links are to a massive collection of free resources to help facilitators maintain wellness in their lives and careers.
Personal Wellness
Assertiveness
Attitude
Burnout
Cynicism
Emotional
Intelligence
Financial
Fitness
Job
Satisfaction
Motivating
and Inspiring Yourself
Physical
Fitness
Self-Confidence
Stress
Management
Work-Life
Balance
Personal Development
Various
Perspectives About Personal Development
Self-Assessments
(numerous self-assessments)
Changing
Your Behavior
Basic
Requirements of Learners in Training and Development
Learning
Style Inventory
Mindpower
Reading
Skills
Student
Skills
Career Development
Career
Planning
Dress
for Success
Networking
Job
Searching
Resumes
Interviewing
for a Job
Personal Productivity
Critical
Thinking
Creative
Thinking
Decision
Making
Organizing
Yourself
Problem
Solving
Time
Management
Other Topics in Business and Management
The following links are to a wide range of business topics that, while not directly related to the practices of facilitation, are useful information for facilitators to further understand business and management.
Advertising
and Promotion
Benefits
and Compensation
Computers,
Internet and Web
Crisis
Management
Customer
Satisfaction
Customer
Service
E-commerce
Facilities
Management
Financial
Management (for-profit)
Financial
Management (nonprofit)
Fundraising
(for for-profit)
Fundraising
(for nonprofit)
Insurance
Legal
Information (employee laws, etc.)
Marketing
(all facets)
Operations
Management
Policies
(personnel)
Product/Service
Management
Project
Management
Program
Management
Public
and Media Relations
Risk
Management
Sales
Social
Entrepreneurship1
Starting
an Organization (for-profit or nonprofit)
Taxation
Volunteers
(recruiting, managing, etc.
Various Organizations that Include Focus on Facilitation
National
3M
Meeting Network
International
Association of Facilitators
International Society
for Performance Improvement
Institute for
Cultural Affairs -- World-Wide
Institute for
Cultural Affairs USA and the Technology of Participation (ToP)
Midwest
Facilitators' Network
Minnesota Organization
Development Network
National OD
Network
Project Management
Institute (PMI)
Regional OD Networks
Society for Human
Resource Management
Local
Minnesota
Facilitator's Network
Minnesota Organization
Development Network
Southern MN
Chapter of American Society for Training & Development (ASTD)
Twin Cities Human
Resource Association
For the Category of Facilitation and Teams:
Related Library Topics
Recommended Books
Program Planning Kit to develop
high-quality peer coaching group program
- by Carter McNamara, MBA, PHD, published by Authenticity Consulting, LCC. The program planning kit provides step-by-step guidelines to plan, market (internally or externally), facilitate and evaluate a high-quality peer coaching group program for any application our outcome. The kit includes a program planning guidebook, a facilitator's guidebook and a guidebook for members of a peer coaching group.
The following books are recommended because of their highly practical nature and often because they include a wide range of information about this Library topic. To get more information about each book, just hover your cursor over the image of the book. A "bubble" of information will be displayed. You can click on the title of the book in that bubble to get more information, too.
Also See
Strategic Planning (Facilitating) -- Recommended Books
Organizational Development (Facilitating) -- Recommended Books
