Chapter 2. Week 2 – Preparing to Facilitate a Team Effectiveness Meeting

	"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
	--Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader

Before we get started make sure you follow the advice in the preface and have already scheduled the following:

• Day 13: a full-day team meeting (off-site if possible)

• Days 18 and 25: two half-day meetings

In the previous chapter, you learned a lot about yourself and are now in a better position to move forward as a successful leader.

As a leader, first to yourself and then to others, you should have the desire to make things easy for everyone. One of the key characteristics of successful leaders is their ability to facilitate. Facilitation is any activity that makes tasks easier for others. Facilitation is used in business and organizational settings, and in consensus decision making, to ensure the designing and running of successful meetings and workshops.

Facilitation serves the needs of any group...