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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...
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...
When Smart People Make Dumb Decisions – SMART vs DUMB?
Smart vs Dumb? According to experts in an emerging field called the Science of Choice, everyone can learn to make...
Do Facilitators Need to be Subject Matter Experts? Content vs. Context
Some of the best facilitators are NOT Subject Matter Experts within the topic and scope of the discussion. However,...
10 Facilitation Secrets with Facilitation’s Secret Sauce Explained
Prepared originally as a "Lunch and Learn Guide," you will find twelve MGRUSH Structured Facilitation secrets followed...
9 Components of a Structured Meeting or Workshop
A facilitated structured meeting or workshop provides an environment designed to extract high-quality information in a...
Meeting Impact: Poor Facilitation Leads to Problems, Struggles, and Errors
A primary concern in meetings and information-gathering activities is getting good information—to build the right...
6 Potent Ways to Facilitate Meeting Conflict Response and Manage Conflict
Facilitators must understand and manage meeting conflicts. Therefore, we must first understand our own internal...
Consensus does NOT Mean that Participants are Going to be “Happy”
A facilitator should typically avoid the term “happy”. Our effort guides a group to a common or shared understanding...
Challenge the Status Quo, such as “We don’t do things that way around here.”
Those of you familiar with the MGRUSH curriculum remember the challenge of the “bookworm” exercise that only one or...
Nonverbal Expressions: How to (Not) Gesture while Facilitating
Nonverbal expressions, like words (see Facilitate Meaning, Not Words), connote multiple messages. After you finish...
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