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Ingredients on How To Rescue a Bad Meeting
Meetings are necessary. But not all meetings are good. To be more precise, not all meetings are run well. But how can...
STOP! Were We Even In The Same Meeting?
Daniel Pink’s newest research proves that the end of a meeting is more important than the beginning. Endings...
Use the Creativity Tool to Launch Ideation When Brainstorming
The following Creativity tool stimulates the ideation activity of Brainstorming and enables people to express ideas...
One Essence, Three Aspects: The Rule of Thirds in the World of Facilitation
The rule of thirds helps guide the facilitator and meeting designer. The Project Management Institute (PMI) refers to...
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....
A Facilitator’s Profile is Much Like an Innovator’s Profile — a Design Thinker
“Contrary to popular opinion, you don’t need weird shoes or a black turtleneck to be a design thinker . . .” so goes...
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...
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...
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