Archive for May, 2007

Our Courses and Training

Posted by Andrew 27 May 2007

Coming up over the next 3 months are some courses and training you might want to consider. Courses currently on offer include:

From Fearful to Fun! Public Speaking for Professionals
Facilitation Essentials for Managers and Group Leaders
Practical Social Network Analysis – Skills and Techniques for Facilitating Organisational Change

Some new courses which we are excited to announce as [...]

 

Can you say No?

Posted by Andrew 21 May 2007

With all the demands being placed on us, how many times have you wished you could just have said “No.” ?
But, of course, saying no is so hard, isnt it?
A great book I’ve just discovered, one hot in print is William Ury’s “The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to [...]

 

How can facilitation skills help you be a better manager?

Posted by Andrew 14 May 2007

In our survey on effective communication and facilitation skills which we launched last week inviting managers across Melbourne to participate in, one of the questions we asked was “How could improved facilitation skills help you become a more effective manager?”. Two responses which I found interesting were:

“Improved skills could help a manager be more effective [...]

 

The value of facilitation to organisations?

Posted by Andrew 10 May 2007

As a manager or leader in an organisation you might have wondered what the value of facilitation might be to an organisation? On Monday we sent out an invite to managers across Melbourne to be part of a survey exploring effective communication and facilitation skills. The value add of facilitation was one of our questions. With [...]

 

Manager as Facilitator

Posted by Andrew 4 May 2007

This is a book well worth reading. As we often say ‘the skills that make facilitators successful can help us all be more successful’. In particular as the description says:

Anyone who manages more than one direct report becomes, de facto, a team leader, mediator, and communicator extraordinaire. From meetings to training exercises to brainstorming sessions, managers [...]