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Two books, both written out of rooms rather than about them
Neither of these started as a book. One was my own bank of exercises, written up properly so someone else could run them. The other started as an argument with a slide that cited a study nobody could find.
The Facilitator’s Book of Gimmicks
First edition, thirty gimmicks. Each one written up with its set-up, timing, equipment and debrief questions, and each one run with a real group before it went in. Team challenges, openers, and the exercises that surface what a team has and never discusses.
It began as my own bank, kept because I kept forgetting what worked. It is now the thing I hand other facilitators.
It’s True, I Looked It Up
Peer edition. Two hundred and one studies and seventy-six myths, checked. The claims that get repeated in training rooms and conference keynotes, traced back to whether the research actually says that, across twenty-one chapters.
The title is what I ended up saying so often that it became the book.
How to read them
Published three times a week, free and in full
Rather than sitting behind a form, both books feed the facilitators’ page: an exercise or a checked claim, three times a week, written out properly. If you run rooms for a living, take them.
If you want the whole of either edition, ask me.
Bring me the date and the room
Thirty minutes is enough to work out what you actually need. Bring the date even if nothing else is decided yet.