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...

To Facilitate Mulitiple Generations, Let It Be

How to Facilitate Multiple Generations — All the Time

Jan 8, 2019 | Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

Staying relevant and compelling when you facilitate multiple generations presents significant challenges. Problems...

12 Critical Facilitation Do’s and Don’ts to Lead Successful Meetings and Workshops

Nov 6, 2018 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

Our readers and students have clamored for a quick-reference checklist of the most important facilitation Do’s and...

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 to Actively Listen Relies on Reflection

Mastering Active Listening: 4 Essential Steps and 10 Tips for Interactive Communication

Communication Skills, Managing Conflict

Active listening is a crucial skill for effective facilitation, coaching, and servant leadership. Highly skilled...

Both Facilitator and Meeting Designer: Role of Session Leader

Facilitation Skills

The Role of Session Leader You have a multitude of tasks to perform during the workshop. The success of the...

Increasing Meeting Contributions from Quiet People

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...

Considerations on How to Facilitate Europeans and Asians

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...

The challenges of structured facilitative leadership

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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