Leadership Skills Articles

12 Critical Facilitation Do’s and Don’ts to Lead Successful Meetings and Workshops

Our readers and students have clamored for a quick-reference checklist of the most important facilitation Do’s and Don’ts. Therefore, we bring you this brief, yet powerful, set of reminders below...

Critical Questions to Answer with the Business Model Canvas

The Business Model Canvas was created by Alexander Osterwalder, of Strategyzer®. The canvas provides a one-page primer and template for analysis. Questions and points of view are detailed below.[1]...

How Structured Facilitation Training Can Save Your Arse and Boost Your Career

Structured meetings and workshops positively impact organizations and stakeholders--even permeating cultures. Here are a few straightforward benefits of facilitation training that support structured...

Scope Creep Kills Projects – It Begins in Poorly Facilitated Meetings

Have you ever heard someone say in a meeting “I don’t know why we’re doing this project in the first place?” Odds are, the meeting is being held to advance the project, not re-validate it. The...

Ingredients on How To Rescue a Bad Meeting

Nov 7, 2019 | Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

Meetings are necessary. But not all meetings are good. To be more precise, not all meetings are run well. But how can...

Facilitator Training 101: Four Required Roles Supporting Effective Facilitation

Sep 12, 2019 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

We all have skills to perform many roles in life, such as switching quickly between parent and child when attending a...

STOP! Were We Even In The Same Meeting?

Aug 12, 2019 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

Daniel Pink’s newest research proves that the end of a meeting is more important than the beginning. Endings...

Quiet People: 5 Ways to Increase Meeting Participation

Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict

A leopard cannot change their spots. In the same vein, you are never going to convert quiet people into extroverts who...

Bad Predictions for Science and Technology

Leadership Skills

One of the biggest challenges with facilitation is to build consensus about a future state. Therefore, in a...

Change or Die —“It is NOT the strongest of the species that survives . . .

Analysis Methods, Leadership Skills

Change or die? Most people do not change their minds—rather, they make a new decision based on new information. ...

da Vinci’s Innovation Traits: Still Relevant, Still Compelling

Analysis Methods, Leadership Skills

Leonardo da Vinci identified seven key traits or skills that one can cultivate to enhance intelligence and unlock the...

The Tao of Facilitation — Leaving the Ego Behind

Leadership Skills

The Tao of Facilitation 10th Verse of the Tao Can you love your people and govern your domain without self-importance?...

Blue Ocean Strategy: Create Uncontested Market Space

Leadership Skills

The MGRUSH technique encourages different approaches based on whether your project is seeking incremental gain or...

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