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Facilitator Guide — Preview Edition

Built for the person who runs the room, not just the person who reads the book.

Who This Is For

FacilitatorAn internal L&D professional or external consultant with basic group‑facilitation experience. No supply‑chain or operations background needed — the book supplies the content.
ParticipantsIntact work teams (8–20 people) navigating a change, automation rollout, or a recent operational failure where blame is circulating; also works with leadership groups.
Learning objectivesSeparate observation from interpretation before assigning cause. Recognize when a system's number has quietly stopped matching the reality it represents. Identify which instinct — Measure, Act, Notice, Integrate — dominates the room. Practice a two‑minute "facts before motives" reset as a repeatable habit.

What's Inside the Full Guide

Chapter‑sequenced discussion pathThe book's own six chapters, walked in order, with what to listen for at each.
Core + difficult questionsThe six back‑matter questions, plus four built to surface real, current friction in the room.
Live exercisesThe FACT‑column reset, a Four Responses self‑ID, and a "say it out loud" round.
Facilitator notesWhat tension to let happen versus interrupt, specific to this story's dynamics.
Common misconceptionsThe three ways groups misread the book, named in advance with the correction.
AI / change‑management trackThe case‑weight mismatch reframed as a model‑drift problem, for teams mid‑automation.
30 / 60 / 90‑minute formatsOne modular design — not three separate guides.

A Taste of the Sample Module

"Facts Before Motives" — the guide's core live exercise. Draw a line down a page: FACT on one side, WHAT WE THINK IT MEANS on the other, covered until the left side is genuinely full. Apply it to a real, current situation the group already knows about. It runs in under fifteen minutes and it is, on purpose, the same tool Mina uses mid‑crisis in the book.

The full script — setup language, what usually goes wrong the first time, and the debrief — is in the preview document. Request it below.

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The preview document includes the full sample module, scripted and ready to run, plus the complete table of contents for the eventual full guide.

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