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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...

Kanban or Scrum: Pick the Right Workflow Tool

Guest post by Christian Golden, Ph.D. In the world of content and product development, Kanban and Scrum are two of the names you’ll hear most often. One difference exists between workflow tools that...

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 complete a five-day workshop for building and testing some problem-solving product or...

Agile vs Waterfall? Don’t Risk Failure By Using the Wrong One

A professional facilitator handles several types of assignments, from planning to design. However, most facilitators must also provide a method for securing the deliverable. Although a different...

Internal or External Facilitator? 20 Questions to Help You Decide.

Feb 6, 2020 | Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

"Should we use an internal or external facilitator?" Good question. Everyone has experienced good and not-so-good...

Meeting Methodologist or Meeting Designer? A Rhetorical Shift.

Jan 7, 2020 | Communication Skills, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

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

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...

When Smart People Make Dumb Decisions – SMART vs DUMB?

Analysis Methods, Communication Skills, Decision Making

Smart vs Dumb? According to experts in an emerging field called the Science of Choice, everyone can learn to make...

Balanced Scorecard Demands Strategy-Focused Facilitation

Decision Making, Prioritizing

Five principles of successful organizations emerged from Kaplan and Norton’s research on successful Balanced Scorecard...

Payoff Matrix — Quick Wins, Tried and True, or Hail Mary Passes

Decision Making, Meeting Structure, Prioritizing

Quick Wins are found in the Payoff Matrix shown in the “two by two” below provides the classic means of prioritizing...

Meetings and Workshops — Differences and Characteristics

Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure

If it seems that workshops are actually well-run meetings, that is true to a large degree. Well-run meetings and...

9 Components of a Structured Meeting or Workshop

Facilitation Skills, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Support

A facilitated structured meeting or workshop provides an environment designed to extract high-quality information in a...

Neuroeconomics and Neurofacilitation: Rational Decisions Maximize Utility

Decision Making, Prioritizing

World scientists strive to map activity in the human brain. Presumably, a map of neural activity will shed light on...

Consensus does NOT Mean that Participants are Going to be “Happy”

Decision Making, Managing Conflict, Prioritizing

A facilitator should typically avoid the term “happy”. Our effort guides a group to a common or shared understanding...

A Simple Planning Agenda for Agreeing on WHO Does WHAT by WHEN

Analysis Methods, Planning Approach

Any type of descriptive or prescriptive plan, process, or series of activities can then be illustrated with a...

Facilitating ‘Genetic’ Differences: Similar Values with Different Priorities

Communication Skills, Decision Making, Prioritizing

Most meeting participants embrace a set of similar values with different priorities. The difference lies in their...

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