How to Ensure Neutral Facilitation: Essential Skills for Business Leaders Seeking to Elevate Meeting Outcomes
Imagine a Super Bowl without neutral referees or a courtroom without impartial judges. Similarly, envision a high-stakes meeting, aimed at driving strategic decisions and achieving consensus, without neutral facilitation led by a neutral...
Rhetorical Precision: A Strategic Approach to Facilitation and Decision-Making for High-Stakes Projects
For project managers and product owners overseeing multi-million-dollar projects, the ability to facilitate impactful meetings with rhetorical precision and clarity is critical. The role of facilitators has evolved into meeting designers,...
Mastering the Art of Facilitation: Balancing Alignment and Creativity in Business Meetings
When it comes to facilitating business meetings, there are 10 core elements that help ensure a creative, productive, and engaging experience. 1. How to keep meetings on track and productive Facilitators frequently seek guidance on how to manage...
Ten Key Deliverables Every Meeting Participant Has the Right to Expect
Even lousy movies and novels have three components: a beginning, a middle, and an end. A meeting participant (or ceremony, event, session, or workshop) should expect every session they attend to provide at least ten clear outputs. Seven clear...
13 Essential Steps to Create a Thriving Collaboration and Innovation Hub
Before we get to the 13 steps, let's talk about what we mean by Collaboration and Innovation Hub. A Collaboration and Innovation Hub is a dedicated team that serves as the engine for enhancing teamwork, facilitating strategic dialogues, and...
Mastering Meeting Engagement Excellence: A Strategic Blueprint
To master the art of meeting engagement (i.e., active involvement, collaboration, and participation in meetings), meeting facilitators need a nuanced understanding of various aspects of meeting engagement techniques. To help you achieve this, below...
A Facilitator’s Strategies for Overcoming Resistance to Change
Professional business facilitators confront a variety of challenges, perhaps none greater than overcoming resistance to change. Other challenges differ based on the specific context and industry. Significant and frequent facilitation challenges...
Mastering Meeting Facilitation Challenges: Tackling Common Hurdles Head-On
Meeting facilitation challenges vary depending on the specific context and the participants involved. However, some common facilitation challenges facilitators often encounter include: Conflict Resolution: Addressing conflicts or...
How To Facilitate Vague Indicators into SMART Measures and Criteria
Meeting participants don't argue about verbs and nouns, they argue about modifiers. Modifiers include adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions. For example... Facilitating the transformation of vague indicators into SMART (Specific, Measurable,...
Don’t Just Start Meetings, LAUNCH Them in 5 Minutes or Less
Successful meetings and workshops comprise three essential phases: a beginning, a middle, and an end. Yet, meetings often fail because leaders ignore the importance of one or more of these. In this Best Practices article, we’ll focus on phase one,...
Decision Quality Focuses on ‘WHAT’ is Right, NOT ‘WHO’ is Right
Decision-making frequently considers fuzzy information, fuzzy implications, and fuzzy thinking. To reduce fuzziness, and improve decision quality, lead your group to focus on What is right, NOT Who is right. By structuring your questions and...
Proven Methods for Managing Any and All Meeting Conflicts
No method anywhere can show you how to facilitate a resolution for ALL meeting conflicts. Sometimes, people or parties refuse to agree simply because they dislike each other. Yet while you may not be able to resolve all meeting conflicts, you can...
How To Develop Questions that Lead to Better Meetings (Three Proven Methods Including the Perspectives Tool)
We've spoken about the power of questions. But while you know the right questions (in the right order) can lead to answers that stimulate learning, the exchange of ideas, and fuel innovation and performance improvement--HOW do you develop these...
The Power of Questions — Why Leading with Questions Improves Meetings
The HBR (Harvard Business Review) article, The Surprising Power of Questions by Professors Alison Wood Brooks and Leslie K. John declares that “the secret to being more likable and improving interpersonal bonding isn't being polite, helpful, or...
Facilitating Meaningful Connections — Lessons from “Atlas of the Heart”
Dr. Brené Brown’s book on emotions, "Atlas of the Heart" (Mapping Meaningful Connections and the Language of Human Experience), was our most flagged book of 2022. Undoubtedly, here's why... And why you, as a leader and facilitator, should read it....
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