Fearless facilitation [[electronic resource] ] : the ultimate field guide to engaging (and involving!) your audience / / Cyndi Maxey and Kevin O'Connor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779417603321
• Autore: Maxey Cyndi
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: San Francisco, : Jossey-Bass & Pfeiffer Imprints, Wiley, 2013
• ISBN: 1-118-41750-X; 1-299-38518-4; 1-118-42061-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): O'ConnorKevin <1947->
• Disciplina: 658.4/52
• Soggetti: Business presentations; Business communication
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Introduction -- Heard on the street : the audience does know! -- The audience doesn't lie -- It's about time! -- It all begins with courage -- Keys to facilitate fearlessly -- And on a final and very important note-- -- Organic facilitation -- Organic facilitation is less known -- Organic facilitation is healthier in the long run -- Organic facilitation takes time to perfect (or, actually, make appear imperfect) -- Intimacy is key -- The fourth wall -- The wall it's ok to break -- Food, fun, and safety -- Tools for your fearless tool bag -- Rules for breaking the wall -- Dance naked! : the wisdom is in the room -- How to work (and not work) the room -- How fred friedman broke the fourth wall -- Have fun with one or with one hundred -- Take it professionally, not personally -- As you begin, notice who is "with" you through their reactions, eye contact, or what seems to be working, even in a small way -- Be ready to adapt -- Know that you can't win them all -- Yes, facilitation works with very large audiences! -- Adapting to an unexpectedly small audience -- Coach's comments -- Dialogue not monologue (worse, duologue) -- Conversation is not easy for most -- Can you converse without a cocktail? -- Conversation: begin at the beginning -- The break is never really a break -- Dialogue during your meeting -- Dialogue post-; meeting -- Coach's comments -- The set-up: making it happen -- The learning environment -- You can always facilitate, no matter the circumstances -- Lessons from one executive's transformation -- Coach's comments -- Listen live, then disappear! -- What oprah and larry know -- What the best do not do -- What the journalist uncovers -- What the orchestra conductor knows -- What the sales professional knows -- Really good facilitators use these questions -- Really good facilitators avoid these questions -- What listening live is not -- Timing is everything -- Your natural resources -- Coach's comments -- Go with it! -- Take what they give you -- Trust! -- When you know more and they came to hear it -- When you need to (and should) keep emotion at bay -- When you can't think and hit at the same time -- Home run! -- Coach's comments -- It's about the audience, first and always, in all ways! -- What a ninety-one-year-old knows -- What a professional magician knows -- What an eighth-grade teacher knows -- What engineers know -- Connection is never perfection -- What the professional comedian knows -- Audiences will react differently to the same story -- Avoid death by committee -- Yikes! a whole room full of-- -- When times go less well than planned -- People and groups who exhibit predictable challenges -- People who are disconnected -- Only one person to facilitate -- In your writing, especially when you need to persuade -- Gaining traction -- Keeping momentum -- When all else fails . . . people who won't change, no matter what -- Conclusion: now is the beginning of your new skill -- Appendix a: sure things : eight discussion topics that never fail -- Appendix b: four keys to making it easier -- Appendix c: momentum magic -- Appendix d: oops! when meetings don't go so well -- Appendix e: techniques for teleconference and virtual meeting facilitation.
• Sommario/riassunto: As the workforce ages and younger trainers and managers emerge, facilitation skills take on a new importance and, with the increased use of social networks, new facilitation skills are needed. Written by two facilitation gurus, this book shows how to make any learning environment come alive. It outlines proven guidelines any trainer can use to unify groups, inspire creativity, and get audiences, teams, and colleagues to speak up, talk back, participate, and engage in meetings.

Assessing Government Transparency in China (2021) / / edited by He Tian, Yanbin Lv

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910847592803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024
• ISBN: 981-9997-34-8
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2024.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (275 pages)
• Disciplina: 320.951
• Soggetti: Conflict of laws; International law; Comparative law; Political science; Public law; Private International Law, International and Foreign Law, Comparative Law; Governance and Government; Public Law
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Openness of Government Affairs in China:Development in 2020 and Prospects in 2021 Innovation Project Team on the Rule of Law Index of the Law Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences -- 2. Deepening the Openness of Government Affairs and Building a Transparent Government in Hubei Province Government Affairs Management Office of the Government of Hubei Province -- 3. Investigation Report on Litigation Cases Relating to Government Information Disclosure in Guangzhou Area-Based on the Analysis of 1,168 Cases Handled by Guangzhou Railway Court Since 2016Research Group of the Administrative Tribunal of the Intermediate Court of Railway Transport of Guangzhou Municipality,Guangdong Province -- 4. The Characteristic Mechanism for and Innovative Explorations of the Open Government Work in Xicheng District of Beijing Municipality Project Group on Open Government Work,the Government of Xicheng District of Beijing Municipality -- 5. Promoting Implementation,; Standardization,and Service through the Openness of Government Affairs in the Field of Taxation Taxation Publicity Center of the State Administration of Taxation -- 6. The Suzhou Practice of Promoting the Openness of Government Affairs and Servicing Enterprises with the “Policy Calculator” Project Group of the General Office of Suzhou Municipal People‘’s Government -- 7. Report on the Index of Transparency of Government Affairs in Pilot Free Trade Zones in China (2020)—From the Perspective of Information Disclosure on Government Websites of Free Trade Zones Innovation Project Team on the Rule of Law Index of the Law Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences -- 8. Current Situation and Prospect of Government Press Release in China Innovation Project Team on the Rule of Law Index of the Law Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
• Sommario/riassunto: The book continues to use quantitative and empirical research methods to summarize and analyze the achievements of government openness in China in 2020. It points out that in 2020, the exploration of standardization and standardization of government affairs openness is accelerating, decision-making openness is making steady progress, and government affairs services, administrative law enforcement, and management results are all making significant progress. However, in the future, it is still necessary to further enhance the awareness of openness, identify the needs of the public, integrate openness into the whole process of government affairs activities, and improve the level of information security. Besides, the book for the first time first carries out a third-party assessment of the government affairs publicity in the national free trade zones and free trade zones, and releases research reports on the publicity of administrative punishment information, government news release, work and production resumption information, and health science popularization information.