Facilitation Basics

Book Description
Facilitation Basics allows you to focus on the learners and help an audience "get" a facilitator's message by focusing on the basic principles that underlie effective learning facilitation. In addition, you will find solid tips and techniques on creating a learning climate, facilitating learning activities, managing difficult participants, using media to support learning, and assessing your facilitation quality and success.


About the Author
Donald V. McCain is founder and principal of Performance Advantage Group and has more than 28 year of corporate and consulting experience. He focuses on design and development of custom learning experiences in leadership, sales and marketing, call center management, and many areas of professional development that result in improved business unit and individual performance. He also consults on human resource development (HRD) processes, including design and development, certification, evaluation (including transfer and return-on-investment), presentation and facilitation, and management and marketing of the HRD function. McCain has a bachelor’s degree in business administration, a master’s degree in divinity, a master’s degree in business administration with a concentration in human resources and marketing, as well as a doctorate in education in HRD from Vanderbilt University. Deborah Davis Tobey has nearly 20 years of experience and is principal of Deb Tobey LLC, a consulting practice in human and organization performance improvement. She works with client organizations in consulting skills development and consulting systems; training needs assessment, design facilitation, and evaluation; strategic planning; teambuilding; group process consultation; competency modeling; and leadership development. She has a bachelor’s degree in English, a master’s degree in student personnel administration and counseling from Virginia Tech, and a doctorate in HRD from Vanderbilt University. She served for 4 years as adjunct professor of the practice of HRD at Vanderbilt University and is currently an adjunct professor in the HRD graduate program at George Washington University.


Buy from Amazon     Compare Prices