Facilitation Skills Articles

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...

Ingredients on How To Rescue a Bad Meeting

Meetings are necessary. But not all meetings are good. To be more precise, not all meetings are run well. But how can you rescue a bad meeting if you’re not the one leading it? While our workshops...

Facilitator Training 101: Four Required Roles Supporting Effective Facilitation

We all have skills to perform many roles in life, such as switching quickly between parent and child when attending a family gathering, or switching quickly between friend and customer when shopping...

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...

Don’t Blame Meeting Failure on Your Online Meeting Technology

May 5, 2020 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools

Whether you use Zoom, Teams, WebEx, GoToMeeting, or another online meeting technology, don’t blame the failure of your...

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...

Attitude of Gratitude Makes for More Powerful Facilitation

Communication Skills, Leadership Skills

The evidence is overwhelming—those who have more gratitude, or an attitude of gratitude --- are happier individuals....

A Quick, 5-Minute Paradigm Exercise to Challenge Groupthink

Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict

We encourage professional facilitators to carry a toolbox. Include some intervention devices when you need to shake up...

Process Improvement Questions to Ask When Leading an Initiative

Communication Skills

Organizational process improvement questions depend on the points of view. From an executive perspective, fewer...

To Lead Faster Meetings Requires Explaining the White Space, the WHY Before the WHAT

Communication Skills, Leadership Skills

To effectively control your meetings and finish faster meetings (ahead of schedule) requires an effort that begins...

How to Make Thinking Visible — Three Forms of Business Argumentation Support

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills

The main reason for categorizing input relies on a common purpose. Most groups gather around a common purpose. For...

Appreciate the Value of Argumentation and Meeting Argumentation

Communication Skills, Decision Making, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict

A strong facilitator should understand and appreciate the value of argumentation, specifically meeting argumentation....

Interviewing Questions to Ask to Understand Political Risks in Meetings

Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

Interview participants to understand as much as possible about them, the people they work with, and their business. To...

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