Leadership Skills Articles

How to Facilitate SMEs to Categorize Lists of Ideas and Inputs

One of the worst questions a facilitator could ask is "How would you like to categorize these?" They don't know how. That's why they hired you. Categorizing and creating clusters of related items...

How to Ensure Neutral Facilitation: Essential Skills for Business Leaders Seeking to Elevate Meeting Outcomes

Imagine a Super Bowl without neutral referees or a courtroom without impartial judges. Similarly, envision a high-stakes meeting, aimed at driving strategic decisions and achieving consensus,...

Rhetorical Precision: A Strategic Approach to Facilitation and Decision-Making for High-Stakes Projects

For project managers and product owners overseeing multi-million-dollar projects, the ability to facilitate impactful meetings with rhetorical precision and clarity is critical. The role of...

Mastering Meeting Engagement Excellence: A Strategic Blueprint

To master the art of meeting engagement (i.e., active involvement, collaboration, and participation in meetings), meeting facilitators need a nuanced understanding of various aspects of meeting...

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

Dec 10, 2019 | Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools

Think of a meeting break as a pressure relief valve. Under normal circumstances, a standard ten-minute break, every...

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...

Promising Meetings Will Fail: Four Causes of Meeting Failures

Leadership Skills, Meeting Support

Sometimes meetings that look promising before they begin, fail unexpectedly. Four primary causes of meeting failures...

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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