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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...
Product Owner — Creating Products that Customers Love
“Creating Products that Customers Love” strikes us as highly poignant, as much of the world heads toward a holiday...
How Experience and Qualifications Amplify the Planning Fallacy (i.e., “Overconfidence”)
Research by Ana Guinote and Mario Weick shows that people in positions of power are particularly ineffective planners....
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...
Guidelines for Selecting Appropriate Structured Facilitation Tools
Facilitators rely on hundreds of tools to gather information, support decision-making, encourage innovation, build...
How to Facilitate Business Process Improvement Projects
If you or your group recognizes the opportunity to improve, you'll benefit from Change or Die - The Business Process...
How to Help a Group Decide the WHY WHAT HOW — Purpose, Criteria, and Options
To facilitate consensus around simple decision-making, consider the following scenario and do not forget to help the...
Facilitators’ Overview of the HBR Book Executing Your Strategy
Executing Your Strategy was published by Harvard Business School Press and written by two MGRUSH alumni. This tightly...
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...
SCAMPER is a Mnemonic Prompt for Excellent, Impromptu Questions
SCAMPER provides a ‘hip-pocket’ tool; i.e., an unplanned method of developing appropriate questions on an impromptu...
How to Facilitate Vision Using the Creativity and Temporal Shift Tools
It’s hard enough to get a family of four to agree on where to go out to eat much less getting a group of executives/...
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