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Ten Benefits of Facilitation
By using facilitation as a tactic, you can ensure that you free up your people in all sorts of ways when they work together - after all, it's there to make the process work. But what exactly are the benefits?
7.5.2 Social capital, community organisations and NGOs: Institutional design and capacity building
Another key issue is that most of the poor do not have access to the wider social networks that are usually needed to sustain new enterprises. Since enterprise creation is fundamentally a social rather than a technical process, appropriate steps must be taken to create and nurture social networks. A closely related concern is the need to develop 'industrial clusters' within the informal sector (see Schmitz, 1997).

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3.1 Developments in trade negotiations IV: Economic Report on Africa 2007
Talks on trade facilitation progressing significantly
The Friend in the Room Who Can Help You Look Good
The little known secret of great facilitation.

PITCHING TOO SOON: how I got it wrong
I recently received notices of multiple purchases from the same man. On one form, he completed a questionnaire saying he was considering using some of the thinking within my Buying Facilitation Method® in a sales training program he was designing.
Turning A 'No' Into A 'Yes'
I recently experienced a very clear example of Buying Facilitation®, when i used it to turn a failed buying situation into a purchase. I tell a shortened version of this story in my new book, Dirty Little Secrets; it bears repeating during this economic confusion when buyers are having difficulty getting to ‘yes’. I was at a client site running a Buying Facilitation® training. A part of the training includes real-time calls to clients prospects. In this situation, my client had requested that the team listen to me on a call first, so they could hear what BF actually sounded like real-time. They set up a phone meeting between me and a prospect who had called recently to say “Sorry. We won’t be purchasing your product,” after one year of 3 sales visits and 3 product trials.
Buying Facilitation® vs. buyer facilitation
Lately, I’ve noticed folks using the term buyer facilitation. While I can make a good guess that the term is a version of Buying Facilitation®, it is being used in a ’sales’ context. So maybe, the term is to be used in conjunction with Buying Facilitation®. After all, the buyer must manage both the internal decision issues and the need-related decision issues before a purchase happens.
Ten Benefits of Facilitation
By using facilitation as a tactic, you can ensure that you free up your people in all sorts of ways when they work together - after all, it's there to make the process work. But what exactly are the benefits?
Buying Facilitation® and Sales: the dynamic duo
Sales is a great model for understanding need, discovering problems, and introducing/placing solutions. Buying Facilitation® is a great model for helping buyers navigate their behind-the-scenes political and relationship issues that must achieve buy-in before they get consensus to purchase a solution – you know, that mysterious stuff buyers go through privately while we sit and wait for them to buy. By using both two models consecutively, selling and buying becomes a very different experience than the one we are accustomed to: the timing is different, the skills are different, the outcomes are different, the relationship is different and the competitive and money factors fade away.
Managing Emotional Hot Buttons in Meetings
Preparation and planning for facilitation of an effective meeting is the first step. You can find resources to guide this process in Masterful Meetings a series of articles written in 2005 on my website under Newsletters.

Soft Skills Training
It is often argued that the education of hard skills is becoming more prevalent in schools and, as such, graduates are coming out more skilled than ever. Hard skills relate to abilities that are testable, such as typing or mathematical skills. Unfortunately, soft skills are often neglected and today’s grads find themselves incredibly skilled but unable to practically implement what they’ve learned. Soft skills relate to teamwork and interpersonal skills.
The Facilitator's Role
Facilitation is one of the modern management skills. It requires a subtlety and sensitivity towards people that is just right for today's businesses. Learn 7 aspects of the facilitator's role in this article.
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