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Facilitation Skills Articles
How To Save Your Meeting With A ‘Special’ Meeting Break
Think of a meeting break as a pressure relief valve. Under normal circumstances, a standard ten-minute break, every...
Ingredients on How To Rescue a Bad Meeting
Meetings are necessary. But not all meetings are good. To be more precise, not all meetings are run well. But how can...
Challenge the Status Quo, such as “We don’t do things that way around here.”
Those of you familiar with the MGRUSH curriculum remember the challenge of the “bookworm” exercise that only one or...
Nonverbal Expressions: How to (Not) Gesture while Facilitating
Nonverbal expressions, like words (see Facilitate Meaning, Not Words ), connote multiple messages. After you finish...
Facilitating ‘Genetic’ Differences: Similar Values with Different Priorities
Most meeting participants embrace a set of similar values with different priorities. The difference lies in their...
The FUD Factor: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt Amplify Fear, but People Change Anyway
Paradigms Paradigms are established accepted norms, patterns of behavior, or a shared set of assumptions. Shaking them...
The Way People Think Affects How You Intervene to Build Consensus
Differences — People think differently. As session leader, you empower participants and their ability to...
Three Types of Persuasion for Individuals to Embrace Organizational Goals
Meeting and workshop participants by definition ought to be participatory. To get and stay involved, subject matter...
Facilitating Cultural Shift from Group Orientation to Shared Project Team Values
We have argued for years that unclear speaking (or writing) is indicative of unclear thinking and will impact shared...
Beware of the Overconfidence Effect With Subject Matter Experts and be Prepared to Challenge
You and I have been victims of numerous false, urban legends. So please beware of the overconfidence effect among...
It Is NOT What is in it for me? Rather, What do you need or want from me?
Meeting participant preparation differs high-performance groups from normal or underperforming groups. Many people...
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