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How to Facilitate Speakers and Conference Presentations
During a four-day conference, we facilitated more than 20 speakers and varying presentations, each citing distinctive...
Do NOT Attempt a Design Sprint Without a Professional Facilitator
What is a Design Sprint? Created at Google Ventures, a Design Sprint represents a methodology that helps teams...
How to Facilitate Prioritization and Build Consensus Quickly (or, MoSCoW)
Strongly encouraged by Steve Jobs, as mentioned in his biography by Walter Isaacson, here is how to facilitate...
Facilitate Consensual Prioritization Using a Perceptual Map
A perceptual map works well when the PowerBall approach is not robust enough, yet many of your attributes and criteria...
Data Transformation — How to convert a single piece of data into a visual display of 16 elements
With data transformation, each piece of data or single cell might be decomposed into another layer. Amplify this...
Voting Sucks Because it Leads to Bigger Numbers but Lower Quality Decisions
Western society, and to an increasing amount, the rest of the world, depends on the voting method of decision-making....
How to Facilitate Olympic Scoring – Innovative Ideas & Concepts
The Purpose of Olympic Scoring is to extract some consensually validated new product, process, or other innovative...
Methodological Awareness About Deming’s 14 Points of Continuous Improvement
Every minute somewhere, someone refers to Deming’s term SMART (i.e., Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant,...
Appreciate the Value of Argumentation and Meeting Argumentation
A strong facilitator should understand and appreciate the value of argumentation, specifically meeting argumentation....
Decision Types: Understanding the Time and Place for Individual or Group Decisions
The continuum of leadership behavior provides one context for understanding the best time and place for individual...
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...
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