Facilitation Skills Articles

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...

STOP! Were We Even In The Same Meeting?

Daniel Pink’s newest research proves that the end of a meeting is more important than the beginning. Endings leave lasting impressions. Recency triumphs over primacy. And yet, how often have...

Takeaways from the Global SCRUM Gathering and Control the Room

The Global SCRUM GATHERING® Austin was kicked off on a warm Monday morning in May by Daniel Pink. Because his research focused on time and timing, Daniel compiled and published his results and...

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...

Quick Tips For More Effective Meetings

Apr 4, 2020 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

Today we bring you quick tips for more effective meetings. "Distribution Talk With Jason Bader", a podcast that...

Three Behaviors Guaranteed to Build Consensus

Feb 18, 2020 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

Meetings capture a huge investment of time. Unproductive meetings affect your cash flow, morale, and the potential...

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...

Facilitate: Indispensable in Guide to the Business Analyst Body of Knowledge ®

Facilitation Skills, Meeting Support

How to run a better meeting is like learning to be a better listener, easy to understand but hard to do. Why? Poor...

Compelling Reasons for Structured Meetings | Positive Impact on Stakeholders

Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

Using structured meetings with facilitation and professional meeting design quickly gets people to focus on the right...

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