Facilitation Skills Articles

How to Be Precise with Three Meeting Transition Questions: Do NOT Ask “How Do You Solve Global Hunger?”

Meeting Transition questions is highly effective because you cannot develop a plan, any plan, such as a marketing plan, by asking "What is the marketing plan?" The question is so broad as to be...

Differences Between Skills of Project and Program Management

Close analysis of the PMBOK® (version 5) suggests that all skills required for effective project management are also required for program management. The differences between project management and...

Influences through Eight Group Decision-Making Styles

We have applied modern research about decision quality with material found in Vroom and Yetton’s robust volume, “Leadership and Decision-Making”. Here they identify eight group decision-making...

Unstructured Meeting Costs Rise: Use a Proven Structured Technique

Meeting costs to American businesses as a result of poorly run meetings (typically unstructured) continue to rise. Surveys indicate that on average managers waste: 8.5 hours per week for low-level...

Reasons for Workshop Success: Witnessed by an MG Rush Alumna

Jun 15, 2017 | Facilitation Skills

Even the best facilitators in the world will fail miserably if they don’t show up prepared. Anyone can succeed with...

Five Compelling Business Reasons To Use Structured Facilitation Sessions

Apr 27, 2017 | Communication Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Support

The most important action you take every day is to make choices--to decide. Your productivity amplifies when your...

How To Manage Challenging Personality Types to Avoid Problems in Meetings

Apr 20, 2017 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

A problem person causes a meeting distraction. Their message is ineffective because some characteristic gets in the...

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