Icons to Guide You

This book strives to make it as easy as possible for you to understand and apply its lessons. Icons throughout the book help you identify key points that can mean the difference between a facilitation success or an embarrassment.

What’s Inside This Chapter?

Each chapter opens with a short summary for quick reference to what’s in that chapter. You can use this section to identify the information in the chapter, and, if you wish, to skip ahead to the material that is most useful.

Think About This

These are helpful tips that you can pull out of your hip pocket to help prepare for facilitation or during facilitation.

Basic Rules

These rules cut to the chase. They are unequivocal and important concepts for facilitators.

Noted

This icon is used to give you more detail or explanation about a concept or a principle. Sometimes it is used for a short but productive tangent.

Getting It Done

The final section of each chapter supports your ability to take the content of that chapter and apply it to your situation. Sometimes this section contains a list of questions for you to ponder; sometimes it is a self-assessment tool; and sometimes it is a list of action steps you can take to enhance your facilitation.