Fast Forward To Facilitation


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‘Footprints on the sands of time, leave behind a trail; for the times gone by and the times to come.’ What does one say about a tale that has a trail. A trail that has taken a cumulative experience of about 300 years. It has lent this book its flavour, fragrance and flamboyance. We are a bunch of happy facilitators who ruminated over many a cup of evening tea, virtually. We wanted to share our snares, glares and flares with the world and our accomplishments too. We explored ways to share the rollercoaster rides with the world. Thus, began our journey of bringing together the collective experience in the realm of facilitation. A humble effort in compiling this book, to open vistas to the fascinating world of facilitation; to explore how it can become a harbinger of change in the learning and experiential space.




Vision Setting Facilitation Guide


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In this Strategic Planner, you'll learn to leverage the Design Thinking mindset to build a bold vision and facilitate 3-easy workshops. In addition, readers of this eBook will benefit from learning how to take a human-centred approach to vision setting in only 3 workshop sessions. ✔️ Activity templates to guide your team through vision building ✔️ Step-by-step guide for vision-building workshops ✔️ Trade secrets to facilitate like a pro ✔️ Talk tracks to captivate audiences ✔️ Agendas to enable productive sessions ✔️ Slide-ware to easily communicate concepts and objectives This Strategic Planner and Guide will be helpful to anyone passionate about innovation, regardless of experience or expertise. This eBook is for: Product Owners: Focus on solving problems and prioritizing the right features to delight users. Designers: Better understand users' needs and preferences to design best-in-class experiences. Project Managers: Facilitate thoughtful discussions to bring different perspectives to light. Team Leaders: Inspire transformational change and champion human-centred design strategies. Everyone: Drive business results by designing human experiences and solving the problems that matter most to users.




The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management


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The all-inclusive guide to exceptional project management that is trusted by hundreds of thousands of readers—now updated and revised The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management: The Comprehensive, Easy to Read Handbook for Beginners and Pros, 6th Edition is a comprehensive guide to real-world project management methods, tools, and techniques. Practical, easy-to-use, and deeply thorough, this book gives you the answers you need now. You'll find cutting-edge ideas and hard-won wisdom of one of the field's leading experts, delivered in short, lively segments that address common management issues. Brief descriptions of important concepts, tips on real-world applications, and compact case studies illustrate the most sought-after skills and pitfalls you should watch out for. This sixth edition now includes: A brand-new chapter on project quality A new chapter on managing media, entertainment, and creative projects A new chapter on the project manager’s #1 priority: leadership A new chapter with the most current practices in Change Management Current PMP certification study tips Readers of The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management also receive access to new video resources available at the author’s website. The book teaches readers how to manage and deliver projects on-time and on-budget by applying the practical strategies and concrete solutions found within. Whether the challenge is finding the right project sponsor, clarifying project objectives, or setting realistic schedules and budget projections, The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management shows you what you need to know, the best way to do it, and what to watch out for along the way.




Fast Forward


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Part II builds on the framework established in part I, examining the different types of change initiatives that are key to the organization's growth: the development of a new strategic plan, the integration of a new acquisition, launching a new venture, establishing a new IT platform, leading an organizational turnaround, and implementing deep cultural change. It does this in the authors' style, and the book is filled with real-world examples and exercises that have been proven in the authors' executive MBA teaching and in their research and consulting work."--BOOK JACKET.




Facilitating Breakthrough


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Making progress on complex, problematic situations requires a new approach to working together: transformative facilitation, a structured and creative process for removing the obstacles to fluid forward movement. It is becoming less straightforward for people to move forward together. They face increasing complexity and decreasing control. They need to work with more people from across more divides. In such situations, the most common ways of advancing—some people telling others what to do, or everyone just doing what they think they need to—aren't adequate. One better way is through facilitating. But the most common approaches to facilitating—bossy vertical directing from above or collegial horizontal accompanying from alongside—aren't adequate. They often leave the participants frustrated and yearning for breakthrough. This book describes a new approach: transformative facilitation. It doesn't choose either the bossy vertical or the collegial horizontal approach: it cycles back and forth between them. Rather than forcing or cajoling, the facilitator removes the obstacles that stand in the way of people contributing and connecting equitably. It enables people to bring their whole selves to the process. This book is for anyone who helps people work together to transform their situation, be it a professional facilitator, manager, consultant, coach, chairperson, organizer, mediator, stakeholder, or friend. It offers a broad and bold vision of the contribution that facilitation can make to helping people collaborate to make progress.




OKRs For Dummies


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Your one-stop guide to implement Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) effectively In business, OKRs—that’s short for Objectives and Key Results—are the gold standard for communicating and delivering on what you want to accomplish and how you’ll get there. OKRs For Dummies provides you with step-by-step guidance for following in the footsteps of some of the world’s leading organizations. Drive focus on what matters most, align and engage teams, and generally maximize the benefits OKRs have to offer, thanks to this easy-to-use guide. You’ll learn how to roll out an OKR system that closes the gap between strategy and execution, and helps people at every level organize their daily decisions around shared and important goals. It’s time to get strategic with OKRs. Understand the OKR methodology and determine the benefits for your organization Learn how to craft sound OKRs for every level and department of your business Discover best practices and common pitfalls to ensure success when applying OKRs Focus on the three aspects of the OKRs process: Adoption, Engagement, and Alignment Business owners, team leaders, C-suite executives, and coaches will love this friendly how-to manual for joining the OKR movement.




Tagging for Talent


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Tagging for Talent introduces a breakthrough approach for human resources, senior executives and line managers to find hidden talent from within their own organizations. This unique method challenges the status quo of talent identification and succession planning with an easy crowdsourcing approach to competency recognition. This is not a book about using social media, but a true business solution using the natural behaviors of your workforce to self-identify potential myriad of talent. It speaks to HR professionals and senior leaders who are looking for simple to use, real-life solutions that can be implemented in business today. Employees already see the power of tagging and view this innovative approach as a fun way to recognizing talent, versus the old method of waiting for their manager to see or perceive their strengths. For years, executives have been asking, “Why am I spending all of this time and money when I keep getting the same results?” Tagging for Talent inspires leaders to tap into the power of the crowd, along with practical guidance on how to put a peer-based tagging system in place—and take their company up a notch!




Rwanda Fast Forward


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The authors explore the outlook of Rwanda in the context of development of East Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. They examine Rwanda's vision, achievements and uncertainties in terms of national unity, institutional leadership, the spectre of industrial policy and economic development,perceptions of civil society engagement, etc.




Gourmet Meetings on a Microwave Schedule


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From an expert facilitator and formerly meeting-weary participant comes this practcal guide brimming with ideas to make your meetings more valuable instantly. Discover proven strategies and easy-to-use tips to boost productivity, increase participation, achieve objectives, resolve/avoid conflicts, decrease costs, stop wasting time, get more done, strengthen teams, save money and have fun in all your meetings!




Data, Methods and Theory in the Organizational Sciences


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Data, Methods and Theory in the Organizational Sciences explores the long-term evolution and changing relationships between data, methods, and theory in the organizational sciences. In the last 50 years, theory has come to dominate research and scholarship in these fields, yet the emergence of big data, as well as the increasing use of archival data sets and meta-analytic methods to test empirical hypotheses, has upset this order. This volume examines the evolving relationship between data, methods, and theory and suggests new ways of thinking about the role of each in the development and presentation of research in organizations. This volume utilizes the latest thinking from experts in a wide range of fields on the topics of data, methods, and theory and uses this knowledge to explore the ways in which behavior in organizations has been studied. This volume also argues that the current focus on theory is both unhealthy for the field and unsustainable, and it provides more successful ways theory can be used to support and structure research, and demonstrates the most effective techniques for analyzing and making sense of data. This is an essential resource for researchers, professionals, and educators who are looking to rethink their current approaches to research, and who are interested in creating more useful and more interpretable research in the organizational sciences.