Self-Advocacy and Resiliency: Essential Traits for Women in Leadership Roles
Two of the most important leadership skills are self-advocacy and resiliency, and they’re especially crucial for women who aspire to manage and lead.
Science facilitation: navigating the intersection of intellectual and interpersonal expertise in scientific collaboration
This essay defines scientific facilitation as a form of interactional expertise and explains how facilitating scientific teams requires skills in managing interpersonal interactions as well as understanding how different types of disciplinary knowledge integrate in the creation of new knowledge. Next, it explains how this science facilitation expertise may be developed through metacognition. Finally, it… Read more »
Working Through Conflict: Strategies for Relationships, Groups, and Organizations
Now in its eighth edition, Working Through Conflict provides an introduction to conflict and conflict management that is firmly grounded in current theory, research, and practice, covering a range of conflict settings (interpersonal, group, and organizational).
NOAA: Dealing with Disruptive Behaviors
Improve your facilitation skills with this handy tool for dealing with disruptive behaviors in the moment.
A guide to using virtual events to facilitate community building: Making a PACT for more engaging virtual meetings and events
This guidebook focuses on the overall event planning process: We outline our PACT framework, which describes four key elements to consider when planning your meeting or event.
NIH: Collaboration Team Science Field Guide
Collaboration and Team Science: A Field Guide was first published in 2010. For nearly a decade, the Field Guide has served as a valuable resource for scientists participating in or leading a research team.
Liberating Structures: Including and Unleashing Everyone
This website offers an alternative way to approach and design how people work together. It provides a menu of thirty-three Liberating Structures to replace or complement conventional practices.
Inclusive Practice Glossary for Facilitators
This glossary is intended to be used by facilitators, particularly in the scientific arena when replying to queries or in designing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI or D&I) workshops. Included are terms thatcome up regularly in our work; this is by no means an exhaustive list.
Facilitator School
This website congregates dozens of facilitation training programs, and allows you to filter by price, duration, and location.
IAF Endorsed™ Facilitation Training Programs
A list of available facilitation training programs endorsed by the International Association of Facilitators
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