Cover For Facilitative Leadership Book

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Leadership Strategies - The Facilitation Company has emerged as the #1 provider of professional facilitators in the U.S., with over 600 contract facilitators who lead groups through strategic planning, issue resolution, team building, partnering, and numerous other activities that require addressing issues and coming to consensus.

We also are the #1 provider of facilitation training in the country where we skill people up in using facilitation techniques and strategies. We have trained over 25,000 in our widely-acclaimed course, The Effective Facilitator. We supplement our flagship course with 13 other training offerings, including the Facilitative Leader. These other courses are designed to provide facilitation-related skills to specific audiences such as leaders, trainers and consultants.

The 8 Core Practices of Facilitative Leaders is a book for all levels of leaders including C-suite executives down to first-year managers. Along with it’s eight core practices, the book provides a wealth of practical strategies for moving from “command and control” to engaging and inspiring. The book takes “soft” ideas like trust and conflict and breaks them down into clear concepts (e.g., the 5 Cs of Trust and the 3 Levels of Disagreement) with actionable tools and techniques for maximizing impact.

The 8 Core Practices (SUCCEEDS)

1. Start with the why; engage with the how
2. Understand and empower; don’t command and control
3. Communicate in their language, not yours
4. Connect first; correct second
5. Equip for success, monitor for results
6. Engage conflict; encourage disagreement
7. Drive strategic thinking throughout the organization
8. Start, execute, and close every meeting masterfully

The book is written by Michael Wilkinson. This is his sixth book. This will be the fourth one published by Leadership Strategies Publishing, his company's publishing arm.

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8 Core Practices of Facilitative Leaders

1. This is a high quality book.
2. I am going to get great strategies from this book.

1. Cover should be somewhat consistent with two other titles by the author published by LSP:
https://www.amazon.com/Executive-Guide-Facilitating-Strategy/dp/0972245812
https://www.amazon.com/Click-Virtual-Meetings-Michael-Wilkinson/dp/0972245855
2. Be sure to glance through the first chapter attached for an overview of the book.
3. Consider as a POSSIBLE idea (not required) some variation of the title treatment shown on the cover page of the first chapter.
4. Several weeks after award, an additional $300 will be paid to expand the background of the cover to spine and back page, insert backpage content, and layout on printer's cover template.

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