Facilitation Skills Articles

How To Manage Challenging Personality Types to Avoid Problems in Meetings

A problem person causes a meeting distraction. Their message is ineffective because some characteristic gets in the way of communicating clearly. Always empower your participants, but learn to...

The New Science of Teamwork: Is It New or Simply MG RUSH Professional Facilitation At Work?

The lead article in the March-April (2017) Harvard Business Review reads like a promotion for our MG RUSH Professional Leadership, Facilitation, and Methodology training. The principal...

Presenter Tips: How To Simply Make Your Presentations More Facilitative

Research by the National Speakers’ Association shows that becoming more facilitative (i.e., more interactive or service-oriented) is the single most important change a speaker or presenter can make....

Ground Rules and Ideation Rules for Optimal Group Behavior in Meetings

Use ground rules to help manage individual and group behavior during meetings and workshops. You can lead meetings and discussions without ground rules, but did you ever leave an unstructured...

Critical Questions to Answer with the Business Model Canvas

Oct 2, 2018 | Communication Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

The Business Model Canvas was created by Alexander Osterwalder, of Strategyzer®. The canvas provides a one-page primer...

How Structured Facilitation Training Can Save Your Arse and Boost Your Career

Sep 4, 2018 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

Structured meetings and workshops positively impact organizations and stakeholders--even permeating cultures. Here are...

Scope Creep Kills Projects – It Begins in Poorly Facilitated Meetings

May 10, 2018 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

Have you ever heard someone say in a meeting “I don’t know why we’re doing this project in the first place?” Odds are,...

Quiet People: 5 Ways to Increase Meeting Participation

Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict

A leopard cannot change their spots. In the same vein, you are never going to convert quiet people into extroverts who...

Facilitate Meaning and Intent, Not Words

Communication Skills

One of the toughest tasks of a facilitator is to relinquish judgment and fully seek the intent behind the terms used...

How to Facilitate Scientists, Asians, and Europeans

Communication Skills

Recently on a blog, an informal group of mathematicians solved a tough and long-standing mathematics problem in a few...

“‘The Strategy’ vs. ‘Strategies’ and ‘Strategic Plans’: A Comparative Analysis”

Communication Skills

"The term 'strategy,' much like 'quality,' is often overused and should be applied with precision. 'The strategy'...

Facilius Reddo: Simplifying the Path to Success

Communication Skills

With this initial blog, we have launched compelling content about the dynamic role of a facilitator in the interactive...

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