Facilitation Skills Articles

Mastering Facilitation: Proven Approaches for Driving Consensus, Innovation, and Action

MG RUSH facilitation training workshops offer various approaches to build prioritized criteria, options, consensual plans, and innovative solutions. The following provides an overview ending with an...

Consensus Mastery: Creating a Facilitator’s Edge by Driving Decision Quality

From chaos to clarity, consensus mastery demands facilitators to fortify the quality of decisions, plans, and solutions. As the facilitator, review both the “human” and...

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,...

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...

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Why facilitation remains an important skill for innovation and success

May 2, 2019 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

This month we’re reposting an interview by Douglas Ferguson with Terrence Metz, Managing Director of MGRUSH...

Don’t Run! How to Manage Meeting Conflict

Apr 4, 2019 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

A meeting without conflict is a boring meeting, and we’ve seen very little value derived from predictable and...

Facilitative Leadership – How Novice Facilitators Can Succeed Quickly

Feb 7, 2019 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

Using the principles of facilitative leadership, novice facilitators will succeed when they draw a line of sight from...

How to Facilitate Decision-Making Using Pros and Cons

Communication Skills, Decision Making, Facilitation Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Tools, Planning Approach, Problem Solving

First, here is the traditional Pros and Cons method according to its creator, Benjamin Franklin: “For pros and cons,...

Facilitated Meetings Help Overcome 7 Common Product and Project Pitfalls

Facilitation Skills, Meeting Support, Problem Solving

Facilitative leadership provides the best assurance that team leads/ project managers can overcome project pitfalls....

15 Quick Tips to Help You Become a More Successful Facilitative Leader

Facilitation Skills

Here are 15 quick tips to help you become a more successful facilitative leader. “The wisdom of the crowd” effect has...

Fix Meeting Challenges that Remove Energy from Meetings

Managing Conflict

Amazingly, talented people who care can come together and yet fail demonstrably in a ‘meeting.’ Meetings fail because...

Empower Your Meeting Participants to Become Better Listeners

Communication Skills

The effective facilitator helps meeting participants become better listeners. Dr. Ralph Nichols, “Father of the Field...

Facilitating Crucial Conversations and the Dialogue Model

Communication Skills

Numerous alumni have asked if we have read Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, and so we...

Information is Physical — a brief review of James Gleick’s “The Information”

Communication Skills

Information is physical. “To do anything requires energy. To specify what is done requires information.” –Seth...

Remaining Neutral — Take Only Photographs, Leave Only Bubbles

Facilitation Skills

Remaining neutral describes the single most important trait of an effective facilitator. As a YMCA-certified SCUBA...

Rhetorical Precision and Clear Communications — Stress Substance Over Style

Communication Skills

Rhetorical precision suggests that words reflect meaning, much like illustrations, symbols, and numbers. Challenging...

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