Individual Development

I wish I had been exposed to Roger's Approach in my early days - it gives anyone the skills and the courage to have challenging conversations meaningfully and productively.”

Thomas Zgambo Ph.D. Corporate Ombudsman, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Past President, Ombudsmen Association

Are you an individual practitioner seeking to enhance or maintain your effectiveness? Do you want to develop your capacity to help clients, customers, peers or direct reports get the results they want? Would you like to be more connected with us, our latest learning, and your peers around the world?

We offer you a number of resources to help you; our individual clients choose the resources from this list that are right for them:

Services:
Coaching - If you are interested in increasing your effectiveness as a leader, facilitator, consultant, coach or trainer, we suggest you consider forming a coaching relationship with us. We offer both one-on-one and group coaching, and both approaches are designed to help you get better results and build more productive, satisfying, relationships. If you'd like to learn more about our approach to coaching, click here. If you want to discuss a coaching relationship with us, click here.

Training - We offer three intensive workshops. Each is designed for a different audience, but the principles and techniques underlying them are the same. No matter which of these workshops you take, you can expect to build the knowledge, skill and beliefs required to help individuals, groups and organizations interact much more effectively. These workshops are The Skilled Facilitator Intensive Workshop (designed for facilitators, consultants and trainers),The Facilitative Leader (designed for formal leaders and team members), and The Facilitative Coach (designed for coaches)."

Products:
The Skilled Facilitator - this comprehensive resource is a good starting place; if you don't already own the revised edition (published in 2002), we suggest you buy a copy; to learn more about the book, click here.

The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook - this book is a collection of lessons we and our clients have learned as we've applied the Skilled Facilitator approach over the last two decades. It also identifies open questions and potential new directions for our field. Click here to purchase a copy, and click here to learn more about the book.

We offer additional products to support you as you share the Skilled Facilitator approach with others. Click here to see a list of these.

Resources:

Fundamental Change
We invite you to subscribe to Fundamental Change, our free, monthly Electronic Newsletter. If you sign up, we'll include "Holding Risky Conversations", one of the chapters written for our upcoming Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook.
We write Fundamental Change to help you create workplaces and communities that are simultaneously highly effective and that improve the quality of life.

Every month we:

  • Address issues that are important to you as practitioners,
  • Share our latest learning, including client examples and case studies
  • Offer tips and tools for dealing with challenging situations, and
  • Offer resources to help you become more effective.

We hope you find it valuable; please let us know if we can change it to serve you better.

 

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