The Facilitation Playbook: Run Sessions That End in Decisions

Most facilitation books will teach you icebreakers. That's not why your meetings fail.Your sessions don't fall apart because the room needs more energy or a cleverer sticky-note exercise. Theyfall apart because the person running the meeting is also the most invested person in it - steering, summarizing people toward a preferred answer, trying to win the discussion while pretending to host it. Theroom feels the thumb on the scale and goes quiet. A quiet room produces no commitment, which means itproduces no action.What works instead is separating two jobs that managers fatally combine: owning how the group thinks, andowning what it decides.The Neutral Chair is that discipline - you steward the process and hand the decision back to the room - andit is the single move that turns talk into commitment.I've taught this system to managers and HR leaders across dozens of cohorts at Mike Pritula Academy, andwatched it change how their meetings end.Every template you need is inside the book - no downloads, no email walls, no broken links.If you've felt the usual facilitation advice isn't working, this is why - and what to do instead.

Pages: 176, Paperback, Independently published