From the course: Facilitation Skills for Managers and Leaders
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From the course: Facilitation Skills for Managers and Leaders
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- Adding the skill of facilitation to your leadership toolbox is a powerful way to empower your team to new heights of success. In this course we've covered the power of facilitating, when it makes sense for you to use your facilitation prowess, the core skills of a facilitator, and some of the challenges you may run into facilitating. My hope is that this will help you start flexing your facilitation skills. If you want more information on facilitating as a leader you may want to check out Roger Schwarz's book, The Skilled Facilitator. Barry Rosen of Interaction Associates has also written a great book called Facilitative Leadership that is well worth checking out. Like anything, you may find that facilitation feels awkward at first. For example, as a leader you may not be used to holding back your opinion. Be kind to yourself and start slowly. There's no need to boil the ocean here. Once you feel confident that you'd like to try adding facilitation to your leadership toolbox, start…
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