Facilitating with Ease!

New and Revised Edition

Core Skills for Facilitators, Team Leaders and Members, Managers, Consultants, and Trainers INGRID BENS, SARASOTA, FLORIDA

Facilitating with Ease! is an updated version of the best-selling resource that offers easy-to-follow instructions, techniques, and hands-on tools that team leaders, consultants, supervisors, and managers have used to learn the basics of facilitation. Complete with worksheets on CD-ROM that can be customized to fit your personal needs, it's a complete facilitation workshop in a take-home format. Facilitating with Ease! shows you how to run productive meetings with skill and authority and includes the information needed to train others in your organization to become confident facilitators as well. The book is filled with dozens of exercises, surveys, and checklists that can be used to transform anyone into an effective facilitator.

Facilitating with Ease, Second Edition is an important book offering all the necessary action steps and materials in a simple and accessible format.

• Contains dozens of exercises, surveys, checklists, and even customizable worksheets on CD-ROM to transform anyone into an effective facilitator.
  
• Designed to be flexible, the book can be used alone or in conjunction with training workshops.
  
• Updated edition of the bestselling resource on facilitation.
  

 

Audience: Facilitators, team leaders and members, managers and supervisors, consultants, and teachers.

Greek Salad with Oregano Marinated Chicken

Recipe courtesy Dave Lieberman
Show: Good Deal with Dave Lieberman
Episode: Lite-N-Healthy

For the chicken:
1 lemon, juiced
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon dried oregano
A couple good pinches salt
10 grinds black pepper
4 (6 to 7-ounce) boneless skinless chicken breasts

For the dressing:
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1 lemon, juiced
2 cloves garlic, smashed with the side of your chef's knife
1 teaspoon dried oregano
3 pinches salt
10 to 15 grinds black pepper

For the salad:
2 to 3 hearts romaine lettuce
1 English cucumber, peeled, cut in 1/2 lengthwise, then cut into 1/2-inch chunks
3 vine-ripened tomatoes (about 3/4-pound), cored and cut into 1/2-inch chunks
1/2 red onion, very thinly sliced
1/2 cup pitted kalamata olives, coarsely chopped
1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese

To marinate the chicken: In a non-reactive dish, combine the lemon juice, olive oil, oregano, salt, and pepper and mix together. Add the chicken breasts to the dish and rub both sides in the mixture. Cover the dish with plastic wrap and let marinate in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes and up to 4 hours.

To make the dressing: Combine all the ingredients in a resealable container and shake vigorously. Refrigerate until ready to serve, and then bring to room temperature before tossing salad.

Assemble the salad: cut off any dark tips and the bitter white bottoms from the romaine leaves. Cut the lettuce into 1-inch strips and place in a bowl that is large enough to hold all the salad ingredients comfortably. Scatter cucumbers, tomatoes, red onion, olives, and feta over the top. You can prepare the salad up to a few hours in advance. Cover it with a moist paper towel and refrigerate until 30 minutes before serving.

To cook the chicken: Heat a nonstick skillet or grill pan over high heat. Add the chicken breasts and cook, turning once, until well browned, about 4 to 5 minutes on each side or until cooked through. Let the chicken rest on a cutting board for a few minutes before slicing it into thin strips.

Give the dressing a good shake and pour it into a nice little serving bowl, using the lid to strain out the garlic.

Toss salad just before serving and fan chicken out on top.

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BRUSCHETTA [ S E R V E S F O U R - S I X]

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• Chopped Roma tomatoes - 6
• Chopped basil - 1/2 cup
• Chopped garlic - 1, whole
• Extra virgin olive oil - 1/3 cup
• Baguette - 1 loaf

1. Put chopped ingredients in bowl, salt lightly and stir in oil. Mix thoroughly and set aside to marinate.
   
   
2. Cut bread on angle, into 1/2" pieces and sprinkle oil on top. Grill a few minutes on each side until crispy. Brush one side of each piece with garlic clove.

   Variation: Top with thinly sliced mozzarella cheese topped with roasted peppers and pesto sauce.

Google Docs Aims At Microsoft Office Live With 'Gears'

By Jack McCarthy, ChannelWeb
9:33 PM EDT Mon. Mar. 31, 2008
Google (NSDQ:GOOG) took an important step forward Monday in its rivalry with Microsoft Office Live, reporting that Google Docs will allow users to edit word processing documents offline.

Google said users of its Google Docs word processing application can use Google Gears to save and then edit documents without being connected to the Internet.

"Cloud computing is great, but you need the cloud to make it work," Philip Tucker, software engineer, Google Docs, wrote in a Google blog. "On an airplane, on the shuttle commuting to work, or at home when my cable modem goes down, I want to work on my documents. And, until now, that usually meant saving a copy and editing on the desktop.

"Now there's a better solution. With Google Docs offline, I can take my little piece of the cloud with me wherever I go," Tucker added. "Once enabled, I have a local version of my document list and editors, along with my documents."

The editing feature, Google Gears, is an application programming interface introduced by Google more than a year ago to application developers to create Web applications that can run offline.

The technology already works within Google's news feed reader, Google Reader, and applications from independent Web developers such as task-management service "Remember the Milk," from an Australian-based company of the same name, Reuters reported.

"Everything I need is saved locally," Tucker said. "And I do everything through my web browser, even when I'm offline (the goodness that Google Gears provides). When my connection comes back, my documents sync up again with the server."

With this offline functionality, Google Docs has another important feature that it can sell as it competes with Microsoft Live, which capitalizes on the strengths of its Office suite

Aftertaste

It’s over, i can sense it.

It hurts to just think about everything.

I should be sleeping now but my mind is not cooperating with me.

When i wake up tomorrow, everything will be okay.