The Future Leader: How to Channel Team Energy Through Drive-Meetings and Facilitation

A book on facilitation that will help you move to a new level of leadership, unlock the potential of the entire team, and run managed, effective meetings.

In their development, a leader goes through several stages. One of the latest is the facilitator. Such a manager has “everything running by itself.” They can see the strengths and weaknesses of each person, know how to reveal employees’ potential, and neutralize negative aspects. They motivate, involve, and empower, monitor execution, and draw lessons. This kind of leader can build strong teams and organizations that live and work like a healthy organism.

Facilitation helps organize and conduct managed, effective meetings to inspire, motivate, and engage employees, and to set them in the right direction. This method makes it possible to see and discuss the maximum number of alternatives and choose the optimal solution based on the knowledge, experience, and opinions of all participants. And most importantly, it pushes the team to go and do what everyone agreed on together. Facilitation turns indifferent people—who see meetings as a burdensome duty—into active and proactive ones.

If the term itself makes you skeptical, simply replace it with “the ability to conduct productive meetings”—this phrase fully reveals the meaning of facilitation.