Managing Facilitated Processes: A Guide for Facilitators, Managers, Consultants, Event Planners, Trainers and Educators

  • 2h 50m
  • Dorothy Strachan, Marian Pitters
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2009

Managing Facilitated Processes helps people make thoughtful decisions about managing successful gatherings. The book's ten chapters are divided into three parts:

  • From Contact to Contract—building customized agreements; eighteen types of facilitated processes, their deliverables and unique features
  • Approach and Style—ensuring integrated, customized, and systematic elements; a forget-me-not prompter; effective management styles
  • Management x 5: Participants, Speakers, Logistics, Documents, Feedback—practice guidelines, examples, and time-saving tools

About the Authors

Dorothy Strachan is a partner in Strachan-Tomlinson, a process consulting firm in Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of Making Questions Work and Process Design, both from Jossey-Bass.

Marian Pitters is the president of Pitters Associates, a management consulting firm located in Toronto, Canada. She has authored a number of manuals on facilitation and public adjudication.

In this Book

  • Initial Contact
  • Building Agreements That Work
  • Approach
  • Style
  • Participants
  • Speakers
  • Logistics
  • Documents
  • Feedback
  • Endings and Beginnings