The Facilitator Skills Inventory (FSI) Package comprises one, 40-item self-asssessment (available separately) together with a training/coaching guide that provides everything needed to administer the inventory and undertake follow-up development activities. The inventory, validated by Bill Coscarelli of Southern Indiana University, is based on the competencies, behaviors and practices described in the Bens’ best-selling book Facilitating With Ease! It provides critical feedback on three core areas of facilitation: knowledge, tactical awareness, and observed behavior. FSI is an invaluable feedback tool for meeting and team leaders, project managers, conflict resolution professionals, coaches, professional facilitators, and organizational leaders who wish to develop and improve their facilitation skills. The assessment offers: corporations with a standardized set of criteria to use in assessing the current skill levels and training needs of their managers and leaders learners with a way to assess their current level of competency and help them to identify their personal learning goals trainers with guidance concerning the design of classroom activities educational institutions with a vehicle for testing and awarding learning credits to students enrolled in human resources and management training programs.
Book Details:
- Author: Ingrid Bens
- ISBN: 9780470189054
- Year Published: 2009
- Pages: 48
- BISAC: BUS041000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Management
About the Book and Topic:
The Facilitator Skills Inventory (FSI) Package comprises one, 40-item self-asssessment (available separately) together with a training/coaching guide that provides everything needed to administer the inventory and undertake follow-up development activities. The inventory, validated by Bill Coscarelli of Southern Indiana University, is based on the competencies, behaviors and practices described in the Bens’ best-selling book Facilitating With Ease! It provides critical feedback on three core areas of facilitation: knowledge, tactical awareness, and observed behavior. FSI is an invaluable feedback tool for meeting and team leaders, project managers, conflict resolution professionals, coaches, professional facilitators, and organizational leaders who wish to develop and improve their facilitation skills. The assessment offers: corporations with a standardized set of criteria to use in assessing the current skill levels and training needs of their managers and leaders learners with a way to assess their current level of competency and help them to identify their personal learning goals trainers with guidance concerning the design of classroom activities educational institutions with a vehicle for testing and awarding learning credits to students enrolled in human resources and management training programs.
Over the last decade, facilitation has gone from being an obscure skill known mostly by consultants and human resources specialists, to a core competency for anyone who runs meetings, leads a team or manages a project. In fact, the concept of facilitation is now finally being viewed not only as a meeting or project skill, but also as a core leadership capability. These developments have created a significant need for standardized facilitation skills testing and accreditation that is both reliable and readily available.
Based on best-selling book This assessment is closely tied to Ingrid Bens’ Facilitation With Ease!, which has sold more than 20,000 units in two editions. Strong client demand The author is experiencing strong demand for facilitation assessment from clients such as Citibank (10,000 leaders enrolled in leadership development programs), Boeing and General Electric. Crossover potential Good opportunity for sales into related markets, such as project management and teams.
About the Author
Ingrid Bens is a consultant and trainer who specializes in facilitation skills, team building, conflict management, employee participation, and organizational change. She is a partner in Participative Dynamics, where her clients have included General Electric, The United Way, AAA, the Environmental Protection Agency, Boeing, Bayer, and the AARP. She is a popular conference speaker and in-house program leader. Participative Dynamics has offices in Toronto and Sarasota, Florida.