Facilitation Skills Articles

Three Behaviors Guaranteed to Build Consensus

Meetings capture a huge investment of time. Unproductive meetings affect your cash flow, morale, and the potential growth of your biggest asset, your people. As frequent and important as we attend...

Internal or External Facilitator? 20 Questions to Help You Decide.

"Should we use an internal or external facilitator?" Good question. Everyone has experienced good and not-so-good facilitators. All too frequently, the ‘poor’ experiences can be attributed to the...

Meeting Methodologist or Meeting Designer? A Rhetorical Shift.

Clients frequently contact us about facilitating a meeting or workshop on behalf of an individual or organization. It might be a large, multi-national firm planning a complicated, and potentially...

How To Save Your Meeting With A ‘Special’ Meeting Break

Think of a meeting break as a pressure relief valve. Under normal circumstances, a standard ten-minute break, every seventy-five minutes or so, allows participants to decompress so they can return...

Online Meeting Problems (and Solutions!)

Aug 11, 2020 | Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Tools

Most have you have seen the hilarious, but oh-so-real “A Conference Call (in Real Life)” by tRIPP and tYLER (22...

5 Highly Effective Words for Business Meetings: Warning, Proceed With Caution!

Jul 2, 2020 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

Research conducted by professor Cynthia Rudin of M.I.T. and student Been Kim, on highly effective words for business...

How to Lead Online Meetings: No Hiding and Practical Tips

Jun 5, 2020 | Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools

Research consistently reports that the three biggest, challenges of leading online meetings are: Technology challenges...

Frequent Meeting Problems and What You Should Do About Them

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

Ever develop that sense of deja vu about not getting anywhere during a meeting? Meeting problems are indicative of...

The Most Effective Facilitators Stop Saying “I” — Use Pluralistic Rhetoric

Communication Skills, Leadership Skills

As an effective facilitator, stop saying "I" Learn to naturally substitute the plural “we” or “us”. However, for...

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

Communication Skills, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

Meeting Transition questions is highly effective because you cannot develop a plan, any plan, such as a marketing...

Differences Between Skills of Project and Program Management

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills

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

Influences through Eight Group Decision-Making Styles

Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills

We have applied modern research about decision quality with material found in Vroom and Yetton’s robust volume,...

Unstructured Meeting Costs Rise: Use a Proven Structured Technique

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Agendas

Meeting costs to American businesses as a result of poorly run meetings (typically unstructured) continue to rise....

Stop Meeting Scope Creep with Precise Questions

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict

Scope creep kills a lot of projects. Scope creep kills many more meetings. The hardest task to accomplish in leading a...

How to Build Stakeholder Analysis and Consensual Understanding

Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

Begin stakeholder analysis by identifying and examining how each interacts with the organization when they provide or...

Become a Humane Human, Understand WHY Behind WHAT

Communication Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict

The opposite of being a humane human. Road Rage. Have you been irritated by someone else’s driving? Of course, we all...

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