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ASUSFacilitator Community

June 18, 2008Steven Tseng

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What happen in the meeting?What happen in the meeting?

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Why Facilitation?

• Do meetings in your organization tend to go awry?

• Are they too long? Too unfocused?

• How do people feel after meetings?

• Do you wish the decisions made in meetings were actually implemented?

• Do meetings in your organization tend to go awry?

• Are they too long? Too unfocused?

• How do people feel after meetings?

• Do you wish the decisions made in meetings were actually implemented?

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Why Facilitation?

Because facilitation helps to

–Produce higher quality work–Build a broader base of support for timely implementation

– Integrate knowledge, background, and interests

–Eliminate conflicts– Solve complex and difficult problems–Make better decisions–Share information –Plan work –Create buy-in

Because facilitation helps to

–Produce higher quality work–Build a broader base of support for timely implementation

– Integrate knowledge, background, and interests

–Eliminate conflicts– Solve complex and difficult problems–Make better decisions–Share information –Plan work –Create buy-in

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Why a Facilitator?

Because Facilitator helps to

–Keep the group stay focused on its tasks

–Explore the situation more fully

–Minimize interpersonal conflict unrelated to task

–Work through conflicts

–Build openness

–Support within the group

–Collaborate with clients, community members, or politicians

–Develop processes

Because Facilitator helps to

–Keep the group stay focused on its tasks

–Explore the situation more fully

–Minimize interpersonal conflict unrelated to task

–Work through conflicts

–Build openness

–Support within the group

–Collaborate with clients, community members, or politicians

–Develop processes

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What is a Facilitator?

• Facilitator is someone helps a group to accomplish its goals.

• Facilitator is someone helps the group work effectively together through knowledge of process and how the process relates to the content and the context of the group and through interpersonal and communication skills and knowledge.

• Facilitator is someone helps a group to accomplish its goals.

• Facilitator is someone helps the group work effectively together through knowledge of process and how the process relates to the content and the context of the group and through interpersonal and communication skills and knowledge.

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Ability of Facilitator

To achieve outstanding facilitated sessions,

a facilitator needs to build up the Skill, Knowledge, and Experience.

To achieve outstanding facilitated sessions,

a facilitator needs to build up the Skill, Knowledge, and Experience.

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What’s the Difference(between Presenter and Facilitator)?

• Focus–Facilitators focus on the participants.

• Control–Facilitators share control.

• Credibility–Facilitators derive credibility from more than subject matter expertise.

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To be

a part of ASUS history orjust a passenger?

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If we don’t go now, we’ll never, ever go

anywhere.

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Ready, Set,

Go!