Facilitation Skills Articles

How to Build Stakeholder Analysis and Consensual Understanding

Begin stakeholder analysis by identifying and examining how each interacts with the organization when they provide or receive services or benefits. External or internal people, systems, and other...

Become a Humane Human, Understand WHY Behind WHAT

The opposite of being a humane human. Road Rage. Have you been irritated by someone else’s driving? Of course, we all have. Today I realized however that I am likely guilty of doing the precise...

Attitude of Gratitude Makes for More Powerful Facilitation

The evidence is overwhelming—those who have more gratitude, or an attitude of gratitude --- are happier individuals. Although you won’t hear the term ‘happy’ very frequently in one of our meetings...

A Quick, 5-Minute Paradigm Exercise to Challenge Groupthink

We encourage professional facilitators to carry a toolbox. Include some intervention devices when you need to shake up your participants. Be prepared to challenge groupthink if you start hearing...

Presenter Tips: How To Simply Make Your Presentations More Facilitative

Feb 23, 2017 | Communication Skills, Meeting Support

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

Ground Rules and Ideation Rules for Optimal Group Behavior in Meetings

Feb 2, 2017 | Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

Use ground rules to help manage individual and group behavior during meetings and workshops. You can lead meetings and...

Addicted to Being Right: 4 Participant Responses to Avoid Being Wrong

Jan 19, 2017 | Managing Conflict

Most people associate shame or loss of power with being wrong. Ever felt yourself getting defensive? When your meeting...

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