Tools
Learning Modules
Topic
List
Brainstorming and Creativity
Beginner
Enrich your sessions by providing a variety of learning and thinking tools.
How do you ensure the best possible solutions are found for complex or difficult problems? You can warm up your group's thinking using tools such as mind-mapping, graphic illustrations, visuals and stimulating games. Learn everything there is to know with brainstorming and creativity. You choose!
Client
Relationships
Intermediate
Learn the essentials to work successfully with your client group.
What does it take to contract successfully with the group and client whether you are in-house or external? These modules cover everything from assessing needs, to what to pay attention to in the contracting stage, and how to keep them coming back for future work.
Conflict
Resolution
Intermediate
Gracefully handle group tension and difficult behaviors.
How can you best help your groups gracefully move through heavy tension and conflict? Our goal is to encourage you to tap into the growth opportunities of conflict. Being able to handle group conflict depends on your own level of comfort & internal reaction to conflict. Explore tools and tips to manage conflict skillfully and bring your groups to a “break-through” moment!
Consensus and Decisions
Beginner
Quickly build group agreement with consensus and decision making techniques.
Are you sure you are using your consensus and decision-making tools properly? Avoid common pitfalls by using our tried-and-true globally tested techniques. We show you step-by-step how to apply these tools in any culture, anywhere.
Dialogue and
Engagement
Beginner
Succeed at getting balanced, respectful participation by asking great questions in a neutral manner.
How do you get people to offer productive contributions in a respectful manner in meetings and workshops? Sometimes you need to create a neutral, safe space. Other times you may just need to ask better questions, or be more present to what is ACTUALLY going on. These modules cover dialogue tools for any topic including those focused on solving problems and resolving conflict.
Facilitation
business
Advanced
Explore what it takes to build an independent facilitator business.
Can you make a living as an independent process facilitator? What do I need to have in place for contracting, systems, tools and resources? These modules help you explore your current questions about building a meaningful professional facilitation business.
Strategic
Planning
Intermediate
Understand why every organization needs a strategic plan and how to do it simply.
What is the difference between strategic planning and operational planning? Use strategic planning when you need to have a comprehensive, long term view at your organization's stellar future. Each of these modules includes the most commonly used components of strategic planning. They can be used on their own or in sequence with other methods. If you're just getting started, try our overview module: Secrets of Strategic Planning.
Team
Building
Beginner
Expand your repertoire of meaningful ways to quickly connect team members and build trust.
How are you choosing your teambuilding and energizing activities? Explore our most powerful ways to create a safe, enjoyable productive team environment. Each module explains our favorite ways to do this. If you want to go deeper with your understanding of how to honor every person in the room, try our Boosting Group Morale.
Culture
Change
Advanced
Understand and apply principles and models for systematic culture change.
What are the most effective ways to help a community or organization navigate long-term change? We share our favorite frameworks, tips and tools for building collaboration, cultural competency, and working with large groups to facilitate change. If you are an experienced facilitator, you will appreciate these modules.
Are You Asking Great Questions
100+ Questions to Use in Facilitated Discussions
Price: $10.95
Need help in making more meaningful conversation or creating great facilitated group discussions? This handout contains 15 tips to maximize the effectiveness of asking questions. In addition, the 100+ questions are organized into handy topic area.
Skill level: Beginner
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Assessing Simple to Complex Client Needs
What, When, Why, How
Price: $18.95
You will help your clients attain great results only if you have a very clear picture of their situation and the underlying issues. This handout will give you a six step process to help you assess their needs and clarify desired outcomes.
Skill level: Beginner
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A Beginner's Guide to Making Meetings Work
Frequently asked questions & MORE are answered in this handout
Price: $10.95
How do you handle aggressive people in a meeting? Should participants be able to alter an agenda? Should you start with or without attendees that are consistently late? These frequently asked questions and MORE are answered in this handout.
Skill level: Beginner
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Beyond Surface Issues
Helping Groups Dig Deep
Price: $18.95
You will help your clients attain great results only if you have a very clear picture of their situation and the underlying issues. This handout will give you a six step process to help you assess their needs and clarify desired outcomes.
Skill level: Beginner
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Boosting Group Morale: 20 Principles to Keeping Spirits High
20 Principles to Keeping Spirits High
Price: $18.95
Facilitation work requires extensive mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual preparation. So how can we help lift the spirit of others when we are working with them? 20 core principles are addressed in this module to answer this question.
Skill level: Beginner
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The Complete (Abbreviated) Guide to Consensus
In this interactive module, we have shared the thinking of many authors and added in real experiences from our own practice.
Price: $29.95
Building consensus help groups to: 1) gain agreement on reaching a decision or 2) resolve an issue where there appears to be many differing and confusing perspectives. This module will teach you 5 tools to apply in a variety of situations.
Skill level: Beginner
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Consensus Decisions
Kaner’s Gradients of Agreement Scale
Price: $18.95
Every decision essentially has three parts to it. In this handout, we’ll learn what these three parts are, describe the overall process of decision-making, and offer a framework to describe and understand the process.
Skill level: Beginner
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Creativity and Innovation
The Art of Group “Innovative Think”
Price: $18.95
The traditional way of boosting a group’s endurance and thinking power is to periodically introduce short games or “energizers”. This handout includes examples you can use at your next event.
Skill level: Beginner
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Creatively Capture Ideas
Mind Mapping Made Easy
Price: $10.95
This technique is very useful as an organizing, brainstorming and decision-making tool for both individuals and group work by using color, key words, and images to summarize, sort, and retain information on any topic.
Skill level: Beginner
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Designing Productive Meetings
Agendas That Work Like Magic
Price: $29.95
A vision gives a practical vision of a desired future. When a group collaborates in creating a common shared vision and referring to it constantly after the process, they are more likely to reach their goals effortlessly.
Skill level: Beginner
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Documenting Results
Methods and Strategies
Price: $18.95
A vision gives a practical vision of a desired future. When a group collaborates in creating a common shared vision and referring to it constantly after the process, they are more likely to reach their goals effortlessly.
Skill level: Beginner
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Energizers - The Why and How of Five Favorites
Find out all you need to know about introducing play into your groups
Price: $18.95
A vision gives a practical vision of a desired future. When a group collaborates in creating a common shared vision and referring to it constantly after the process, they are more likely to reach their goals effortlessly.
Skill level: Beginner
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Enhancing Your Facilitator Creativity Competency
The focus of this module is to help groups generate ideas to solve problems, move forward from challenges, or create better ways of working.
Price: $29.95
A vision gives a practical vision of a desired future. When a group collaborates in creating a common shared vision and referring to it constantly after the process, they are more likely to reach their goals effortlessly.
Skill level: Beginner
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Ensuring Success for Them and You
Contracting with Clients
Price: $18.95
You will help your clients attain great results only if you have a very clear picture of their situation and the underlying issues. This handout will give you a six step process to help you assess their needs and clarify desired outcomes.
Skill level: Beginner
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Facilitator Follow-up
Why it is Critical and How to Do It
Price: $18.95
You will help your clients attain great results only if you have a very clear picture of their situation and the underlying issues. This handout will give you a six step process to help you assess their needs and clarify desired outcomes.
Skill level: Beginner
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Group Decision Making
Decision Grid & Multi-Voting Get started now
Price: $10.95
You will help your clients attain great results only if you have a very clear picture of their situation and the underlying issues. This handout will give you a six step process to help you assess their needs and clarify desired outcomes.
Skill level: Beginner
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Six Great Visioning Tools
What, When, Why, How
Price: $18.95
You will help your clients attain great results only if you have a very clear picture of their situation and the underlying issues. This handout will give you a six step process to help you assess their needs and clarify desired outcomes.
Skill level: Beginner
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A Tool for Mapping Organizational Development
This module is a powerful way to help the leadership of an organization understand and communicate change.
Price: $18.95
You will help your clients attain great results only if you have a very clear picture of their situation and the underlying issues. This handout will give you a six step process to help you assess their needs and clarify desired outcomes.
Skill level: Beginner
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Too Many Problems to Solve
Master Complex Facilitation
Price: $18.95
You will help your clients attain great results only if you have a very clear picture of their situation and the underlying issues. This handout will give you a six step process to help you assess their needs and clarify desired outcomes.
Skill level: Beginner
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Value Driven Facilitation
Crafting Personal and Group Values
Price: $10.95
You will help your clients attain great results only if you have a very clear picture of their situation and the underlying issues. This handout will give you a six step process to help you assess their needs and clarify desired outcomes.
Skill level: Beginner
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