Facilitation Skills Inventory Deluxe Administrator's Guide comprises one, 40-item self-asssessment (available separately) together with a training/coaching guide that provides everything needed to administer the inventory and undertake follow-up development activities. The deluxe edition also comes with a copy of Bens' book Facilitating with Ease!

The inventory, validated by Bill Coscarelli of Southern Indiana University, is based on the competencies, behaviors and practices described in the Bens' best-selling book Facilitating With Ease!  It provides critical feedback on three core areas of facilitation: knowledge, tactical awareness, and observed behavior. FSI is an invaluable feedback tool for meeting and team leaders, project managers, conflict resolution professionals, coaches, professional facilitators, and organizational leaders who wish to develop and improve their facilitation skills. The assessment offers:

•      corporations with a standardized set of criteria to use in assessing the current skill levels and training needs of their managers and leaders

•      learners with a way to assess their current level of competency and help them to identify their personal learning goals

•      trainers with guidance concerning the design of classroom activities

•      educational institutions with a vehicle for testing and awarding learning credits to students enrolled in human resources and management training programs.