设施高级战略
2005-12
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Ingrid Bens
248
From Ingrid Bens, the author of the best-selling book Facilitating with Ease!, comes the next-step resource for project leaders, managers, community leaders, teachers, and other facilitators who want to hone their skills in order to deal with complex situations. Advanced Facilitation Strategies is a field guide that offers practical strategies and techniques for working with challenging everyday situations. These proven strategies and techniques are based on experience gleaned from hundreds of facilitated activities in organizations of all sizes and in all sectors. Both novice and seasoned facilitators who have had firsthand experience designing and leading meetings will benefit from this reality-based playbook. Advanced Facilitation Strategies is filled with the information facilitators need to Become better at diagnosing facilitation assignments and creating effective process designs roaden their repertoire of tools to make impromptu design changes whenever they are needed Learn to be more resilient and confident when dealing with dysfunctional situations and difficult people.
Ingrid Bens is a consultant, speaker, and trainer who specializes in facilitation skills, team building, conflict management, employee participation, and organizational change. She is a partner in the consulting firm Participative Dynamics.
Introduction 1 Advanced Strategies Overview Your Personal Philosophy of Facilitation The Three Levels of Competence Where Are You Now?—Self-Assessment The Power of Your Presence Personal Projection Assessment What is OD? Working as a Consultant Two Forms of Consulting Expanding Your Power Base Gaining the Authority to Facilitate Losing the Facilitator Role Maintaining and Regaining the Role The Two Types of Interventions Deepening Your Process Responses Managing the Role of Leaders When the Boss is in the Room Enhancing Your Questioning Skills Asking Complex, High Quality Questions Advanced Facilitation in Action Advanced Skills Observation Sheet Debriefing Your Experience The Five Rules of Facilitation 2 The Complexities of Decision Making Shifting Group Focus from “What” to “How” Decision Dilemma #1 – Lack of Clarity About Whether the Group Is Making Decisions Decision Dilemma #2 – Lack of Clarity About Empowerment Decision Dilemma #3 – Confusion About Which Decision-Making Method to Use Decision Dilemma #4 – Use of Positional Processes Decision Dilemma #5 – The Presence of Group Think Decision Dilemma #6 – Lack of Techniques to Overcome Blocks to Agreement Decision Dilemmas Summary Chart More on Decision-Making Options More on Compromise Overcoming Problems with Compromise More on Majority Voting Overcoming Problems with Majority Voting More on Multivoting Overcoming Problems with Multivoting More on Consensus Building Comparing Consensus and Consensus Building Overview of the Consensus-Building Process Overcoming Problems with Consensus Building Tools Overview The Decision-Making Roadmap Decision-Making Checklist Decision Effectiveness Exit Survey Elements Decision Effectiveness Survey 3 Conflict Management Strategies Operating Under Mistaken Assumptions The Importance of Making Interventions Knowing When to Intervene Nine Ways to Intervene The Art of Positive Confrontation Monitor Your Self-Talk When Nothing Works! Conflict Senerios: 1 Role Confusion – What’s a facilitator? 2 The Personal Attack – Who are you anyway? 3 Lack of Authority – You can’t facilitate me! 4 Unclear Meeting Goal – What’s this about? 5 Agenda Overload – We’re going to discuss all that!?! 6 Mistaken Assumptions – Who told you that? 7 Hidden Agendas – Wish we were talking about the real issues 8 Resistance and Lack of Buy-in – What’s in it for me? 9 Resistance to Process – Don’t fence us in! 10 Lack of Norms – We don’t need rules! 11 Ignoring Group Norms – Oh those rules! 12 The Over-Participant – And furthermore 13 The Under-Participant – I have nothing to add! 14 The Positional Debate – I’m right; you’re wrong! 15 The Joker – Aren’t I Funny! 16 Side-Chatters – Psst, Psst, Psst 17 Side-Trackers – On another note 18 Blocking – I simply won’t support this decision 19 Unresolved Conflicts – This goes way back! 20 Cynicism – Why bother! 21 Sarcasm – This is typical of you! 22 Stuck – Are we still talking about that? 23 Conflict Erupts – Let me tell you how I really feel! 24 A Member Storms Out – I’m not listening to this! 25 Unwilling to Take Responsibility – I’m not doing it! 26 Losing Authority – Have I lost you? 27 Blocked Consensus – Why can’t we agree? 28 Lack of Closure – Let’s finish this later 29 Lack of Feedback – Let’s talk later! 30 Lack of Follow-Through – Nothing ever happens! 4 Consulting Strategies for Facilitators 5 Essential Processes for Facilitators
