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- Effective Facilitation
- Instantly save $500 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic or ZDNet! Offer ends April 30, 2008.View Available Dates and LocationsIn this highly interactive and hands-on course you'll gain the skills needed to be an effective facilitator. You'll learn how to focus and re-focus the...
- Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., San Jose, Facilitation
- Training 2008-04-01
- Developing Facilitation Skills
- Facilitation allows a group of people to reach an outcome for which they will take responsibility and to which they will be fully committed. The facilitator acts as a catalyst, creating the conditions for productive behavioral chemistry to take place. These facilitation best practices will help you improve this skillset.
- Tags: Facilitation
- Download resources 2006-06-01
- Help clients make efficient use of their meeting time by serving as a facilitator
- If your clients get little accomplished during meetings because of unproductive arguments and miscommunication, they need a facilitator. Are you up to the task? Read what it takes to prepare for a facilitation and how to make the best use of meeting time.I think it can be said that most...
- Tags: Team management, Rick Freedman, disagreement, facilitator, team, facilitation
- Technical articles 2000-12-12
- Facilitation produces results for clients
- A facilitator makes it easier for teams to reach decisions and create action plans by structuring team activities and guiding discussions. Columnist Rick Freedman explains why consultants should put facilitation skills to work for their clients.During my last month of consulting activities, I’ve spent more time on one specific type...
- Tags: Team management, Rick Freedman, team, facilitator, action plan, facilitation
- Technical articles 2000-10-30
Additional Resources
- Master the facilitation skills you need to lead an effective software development iteration retrospective
- As a software developer, you are already an expert at what you know--software development--but you can still improve your team's methodology to allow you to continually learn from your software development experience throughout the life of a project. In this sample chapter from Agile Retrospectives: Making Good...
- Tags: Software, Software Development, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software/Web Development, Management
- Book chapters 2007-01-17
- Resources for facilitating training
- Whether you call yourself a trainer or a facilitator, this site provides valuable information to enhance your productivity.All trainers find themselves in the role of facilitator—some more than others. In fact, some organizations use the terms “trainer” and “facilitator” interchangeably. If you or those in your organization are called on...
- Tags: Team management, Kevin Eikenberry, training, facilitator, subsection, Facilitator
- Technical articles 2000-02-29
- Facilitation, Collaboration and Consensus Building: The Fast Track to Peak Performance Starts Here
- No single government, organization, or person can address today's problems and opportunities in a vacuum. Challenges such as economic globalization, terrorism, and global climate change require people to work together as never before. From Presidential initiatives to corporate ventures, success demands effective inter- and intra-organizational collaboration. Using workshops, teambuilding and...
- Tags: Collaboration, Performance, Globalization, Government, Groupware, Homeland Security, Strategy, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-03-23
- Facilitate a meeting to define what success looks like for your project
- Although most projects start enthusiastically, optimism fades quickly unless an analysis and design team gets traction and learns where it is going. Working from a project charter, the team's next step is defining typically, "what does success look like". These high-level requirements help clarify the project's vision and give the...
- Tags: Team, Team Management, Management
- Download resources 2007-09-25
- Technology Solution Offers Lassoo Media Mobility and Improved Work/Life Balance
- Lassoo Media is a full-service media and public relations company, offering a range of communications services from brand strategy to event facilitation. The company had managed its own IT needs, but realised a need to consolidate its infrastructure to support future growth and moving to new larger premises. After installing...
- Tags: Information Technology, Media, Mobility, Microsoft Corp., Lassoo Media, Public Relations, Branding, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows XP, Strategy, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Management
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- TAP Helps Council Improve Learning Facilitation Skills
- Leeds City Council is the second largest Metropolitan District Council in the UK, employing approximately 32,000 people, about 10,000 of which are computer users. It was important for Leeds City Council that they retained their team of associate trainers, many of whom have worked for the Council for several years....
- Tags: Training, Leeds City Council, Workforce Management, Human Resources
- Case studies
- Extending Terminal Server with the Citrix Access Platform
- Looking to get more from your Terminal Server environment? Find out how with this white paper, containing real-world scenarios where Citrix has added value to the Microsoft Terminal Server solution through direct Return on Investment ROI benefits such as: Cost reduction by extending the workstation refresh lifecycle...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Terminal Server, Citrix Systems Inc., Terminal Services, Roi/Tco, Regulatory Compliance, Disaster Recovery, Servers, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Data Management, Hardware
- Case studies 2006-01-01
- The Great Facilitator (exe)
- The Great Facilitator is an interactive learning and business support program for planning and preparing successful business meetings. The program uses the latest interactive multimedia technologies to provide users with a Self-Managed Interactive Learning Environment. The program includes: Lectures, Library of Example Phrase and Example Facilitation Skits, Interactive Quiz, Techniques,...
- Tags: Program, Multimedia, GLOBALINX, Great Facilitator, Productivity
- Software downloads 2008-06-12
- The Soft Stuff Is Really the Hard Stuff: IMA's ERP Survival Kit
- For many companies, the price to be paid for ERP has been too big to bear. IMA implemented a $70 million SAP R/3 financial and procurement system at a major pharmaceutical corporation. IMA provided consultation, measurement, facilitation and action-learning. IMA played a key leadership role in all aspects of the...
- Tags: ERP, Procurement, Primavera Systems Inc., Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Purchasing & Procurement, Leadership, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Management
- Case studies
- Bring out the best in employees through empowerment
- Over the past several decades, the traditional superior-subordinate model for management has given way to more democratic approaches, where decision-making is shared. A core concept for most of these new approaches to management is empowerment.How can new IT managers use employee empowerment to improve team performance and enhance their own...
- Tags: Employee Empowerment, empowerment, Steven A. Watson, team, team member
- Technical articles 2003-09-09
- Enterprise Architecture: Measurable Results Through Management, Integration, and Alignment
- SiloSmashers specializes in the capabilities traditional EA suppliers often lack: program management, business transformation, change management, facilitation, collaboration, communication, and capital planning. All supported by years of experience with OMB, the FEA, and cross-agency initiatives. SiloSmashers help you run EA like a true business program, focusing on measurable benefits, getting...
- Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., Enterprise Architecture, Integration, SiloSmashers, Change Management, Business Structures, Leadership, Channel Management, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Finance, Marketing
- White papers 2005-04-05
- Find help for trainers and consultants at TheFacilitator.com
- While it's certainly not perfect, The Facilitator.com Web site does offer some good ideas and solid resources for trainers, making it well worth a visit.In my last review, I introduced you to a fine site on facilitation, (FacilitationFactory.com). Because many training professionals also facilitate groups for purposes other than purely...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Kevin Eikenberry, Happenings, newsletter, training
- Technical articles 2000-03-06
- PCL Constructors Gains Powerful Collaboration and Effective Team Environment
- Edmonton, Alberta-based PCL Constructors Inc. has been playing a key role in Canada's construction industry for close to 100 years. Today, the company raises structures throughout North America and is a leading general constructor in Canada and the United States. Because PCL's large work force is highly mobile and the...
- Tags: Team, Teamwork, Process Management, Collaboration, Canada, Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Enterprise Software, Management, Software
- Case studies
- Punjab National Bank Dramatically Improves Rural Banking in India
- Punjab National Bank PNB is one of the 500 largest banks in the world, and enjoys a rich history and heritage. PNB was the first Indian bank to be started solely with Indian capital. Established in 1895 at Lahore, and nationalized in 1969, it has worked assiduously to build the...
- Tags: Punjab National Bank, Banking, Financial Services
- Case studies 2006-05-02
- Baycorp Advantage Team Partner With Capgemini to Implement Their Growth Strategy
- Baycorp Advantage needed to expand and grow its business in order to realise a vision "to become the worlds most relied upon information and analytics partner." Baycorp Advantage sought a business and technology partner to help it rapidly become a customer-centric organisation through the application of innovation and collaboration. They...
- Tags: Team, Capgemini, Business Structures, Strategy, Finance, Management
- Case studies
- Use the End-in-Mind Approach in Implementing a Scorecard
- Executives and managers are thrilled with the promise of the strategic process offered by a balanced scorecard. This same excitement that sparks the initiative is also the biggest threat to its successful implementation. Eager executives and managers pressure the implementation team to produce relevant results quickly. Conflicting with this anticipation...
- Tags: Result, SAS Institute, Balanced Scorecard, Marketing, Marketing Research
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