Facilitation & Coaching (April 2012)
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Illuminating Newsletter from
Management and personal skills development hints, tips and special offers focused on developing
better brains for better business®
+44 (0)1753 866633 www.illumine.co.uk info@illumine.co.uk
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Facilitation & Coaching...
We often need to facilitate working sessions and coach or mentor others to help them to improve their performance. In this issue of the newsletter we'll take a look at how we can do this more effectively.
Enjoy the read...
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Why do we need effective facilitation?
Facilitation can save time, help generate better ideas and bring a group of people together. Here are some underlying principles and a guide to best practice:
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Spotting when better facilitation would help.
A few pointers and a useful Mind Map...
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The 'Illuminating' brain workout...
1. What English word is 9 letters long and each time you remove one letter from it, it still remains an English word?
2. What is so fragile that when you say its name, you break it?
Answer at the bottom of this email...
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Seven principles of effective facilitation... People have an amazing capacity to collaborate and generate creative solutions. Yet so much gets in the way of this natural human ability. This article sets out the seven principles of RapidConsensus™ (a programme that we offer) that allows you to mine the collective intelligence and knowledge of a group. These principles have been distilled over 20 years of research and practice.
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Featured Course...
Think on Your Feet®.
(speak with clarity, brevity & impact)
17th/18th May 2012
(London)
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The app... now available for Android.
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"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."
Epictetus
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"Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn."
Benjamin Franklin
"Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know'."
Wislawa Szymborska
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FREE Guide: Think (and speak) on your feet
Think (and speak) on your feet with the guide to verbal communication. Speak with clarity, brevity and impact.
Download your copy...
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2012 Central London courses and workshops coming up...
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17 May 2012: Mind Mapping for Business, www.illumine.co.uk/bmap
17-18 May 2012: Think on Your Feet® - verbal communication skills, www.illumine.co.uk/toyf
18 May 2012: Effective Speed Reading, www.illumine.co.uk/read
14 June 2012: Advanced Thinking and Learning, www.illumine.co.uk/atlw
12 July 2012: Creativity for Logical Thinkers, www.illumine.co.uk/crlt
10-11 July 2012: Writing Dynamics™, www.illumine.co.uk/wdyn
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'Illuminating' Brain Workout answers:
1. The base word is Startling - starting - staring - string - sting - sing - sin - in - I
2. Silence!
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The next newsletter: Engagement and Personal Balance...
Having staff who are fully engaged in their work and in the goals of the organisation, makes an enormous difference. Our next newsletter will be full of ideas for achieving this.
Find out more in the next issue...
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