Communication Skills Articles

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....

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...

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...

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...

Why Meeting Participants Have An Obligation To Contribute

Mar 9, 2021 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support, Problem Solving

Many articles talk about getting meeting participants involved. Seriously? If the meeting output impacts participants’...

Collaborate Or Die – How Failing To Collaborate Could Ruin More Than Just Your Next Meeting

Oct 8, 2020 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

In life, there is usually more than one right answer, but there is always a wrong attitude—the unwillingness or...

This May Not Be For You, But if You Want to Build Collaboration . . .

Sep 8, 2020 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

Is it easy for you to build collaboration, commitment, and participation in meetings? Then feel free to walk away from...

New Ideas Propel Public Relations Innovation to Influence Service and Community

Analysis Methods, Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Meeting Support

Alex Osborn, the cohesive force behind creating ‘brainstorming’, shared a timeless message with public relations...

The Primer on Facilitation Certification – Associations Through Universities

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills

With facilitation today there is no common, shared body of knowledge. In part, because facilitation is a fuzzy word...

Five Compelling Business Reasons To Use Structured Facilitation Sessions

Communication Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Support

The most important action you take every day is to make choices--to decide. Your productivity amplifies when your...

How To Manage Challenging Personality Types to Avoid Problems in Meetings

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

A problem person causes a meeting distraction. Their message is ineffective because some characteristic gets in the...

Presenter Tips: How To Simply Make Your Presentations More Facilitative

Communication Skills, Meeting Support

Research by the National Speakers’ Association shows that becoming more facilitative (i.e., more interactive or...

Avoid Asking “How Do We Solve Global Hunger?” with the Single Question Approach

Communication Skills

Not all situations are covered by cookbook agendas or avail a methodologist to help. The facilitator must develop...

Frequent Meeting Problems and What You Should Do About Them

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

Ever develop that sense of deja vu about not getting anywhere during a meeting? Meeting problems are indicative of...

The Most Effective Facilitators Stop Saying “I” — Use Pluralistic Rhetoric

Communication Skills, Leadership Skills

As an effective facilitator, stop saying "I" Learn to naturally substitute the plural “we” or “us”. However, for...

How to Be Precise with Three Meeting Transition Questions: Do NOT Ask “How Do You Solve Global Hunger?”

Communication Skills, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

Meeting Transition questions is highly effective because you cannot develop a plan, any plan, such as a marketing...

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