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Advanced Real-Win-Worth Screening Method that Supports Strategic Decisions
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Public Relations Innovation: New Ideas Shaping Service and Community Influence
Alex Osborn, the driving force behind the concept of 'brainstorming,' shared a timeless message with public relations...
Risk Analysis – Method and Questions to Facilitate A Portfolio of Projects
Project portfolios focused on the best opportunities, and accelerate innovation. So how do you build consensus around...
A Simple Planning Agenda for Agreeing on WHO Does WHAT by WHEN
Any type of descriptive or prescriptive plan, process, or series of activities can then be illustrated with a...
How to Use a Tools for Definitions Making It Easier to Consensually Plan and Decide
To build an operational and consensual definition that your group can live with, in their own words, and with their...
A Metaphor is Worth a Thousand Pictures: Explained Via Analogy
In the role of facilitator, you will discover a lot of power by using metaphors or analogies to explain your method....
Context Diagram – A Consensually Built Picture Can Resolve a Thousand Arguments
Most of us have heard that a picture tells a thousand words. Consensually built pictures, especially those covering...
Estimate and Mitigate Meeting Risk — A Proven Formula
The MGRUSH meeting risk assessment method comes from answering a series of questions about a project, its...
A3 Project Questions and A3 Project Guide for Facilitation Activities
Here are some sequentially listed A3 project questions, modified from an A3 project approach. These questions serve as...
How to Facilitate Requirements Gathering and Prevent Omissions
When products or projects are accused of poor requirements gathering, the accusation is normally false. The...
How to Categorize Lists of Ideas and Inputs When Facilitating
One of the worst questions a facilitator could ask is "How would you like to categorize these?" They don't know how....
Change or Die —“It is NOT the strongest of the species that survives . . .
Change or die? Most people do not change their minds—rather, they make a new decision based on new information. ...
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