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STOP! Were We Even In The Same Meeting?
Daniel Pink’s newest research proves that the end of a meeting is more important than the beginning. Endings...
Takeaways from the Global SCRUM Gathering and Control the Room
The Global SCRUM GATHERING® Austin was kicked off on a warm Monday morning in May by Daniel Pink. Because his research...
A Metaphor is Worth a Thousand Pictures: Explained Via Analogy
In the role of facilitator, you will discover a lot of power by using metaphors or analogies to explain your method....
14 Facilitator Typologies to Avoid (Humorous, Although Uncannily Real)
Here is a quick and somewhat humorous listing of fourteen different facilitator typologies or “personalities” you...
Facilitating For-Profit Meetings Requires Structure Not Found in Kum-Ba-Yah
Facilitating for-profit business plans and requirements captures substantially different challenges than facilitating...
Why We Need Professional Facilitators Who Guard Against Bias
Individuals and groups can frankly be wrong when they think they are right. Professional facilitators get groups to...
Effective Facilitators Remember to Remove Distractions to Provide More Focus
Getting participants to focus on the same thing at the same time represents one of the hardest thing to accomplish...
15 Facilitation Guidelines Followed by Professional Facilitators
As facilitator, you exhibit your weight in gold by following these fifteen simple, yet critical facilitation...
Three Precise Questions that Improve Group Clarity and Build Consensus
We have learned during facilitated meetings and workshops, that it’s not easy for participants to respond to...
Punctuation Precision, Humorously Proven by Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Eats, Shoots and Leaves Our bias about the importance of rhetorical precision has been discussed and emphasized in...
9 Tips Proven to Increase Meeting Competence and Output Quality
Without effective leadership, you can win the agenda but lose the meeting. Meeting competence demands that you take...
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