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A Facilitator’s Strategies for Overcoming Resistance to Change

Professional business facilitators confront a variety of challenges, perhaps none greater than overcoming resistance to change. Other challenges differ based on the specific context and industry....

Mastering Meeting Facilitation Challenges: Tackling Common Hurdles Head-On

Meeting facilitation challenges vary depending on the specific context and the participants involved. However, some common facilitation challenges facilitators often encounter include: ...

How To Facilitate Vague Indicators into SMART Measures and Criteria

Meeting participants don't argue about verbs and nouns, they argue about modifiers. Modifiers include adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions. For example... Facilitating the transformation of vague...

Don’t Just Start Meetings, LAUNCH Them in 5 Minutes or Less

Successful meetings and workshops comprise three essential phases: a beginning, a middle, and an end. Yet, meetings often fail because leaders ignore the importance of one or more of these. In this...

Mastering Meeting Engagement Excellence: A Strategic Blueprint

Jan 18, 2024 | Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

To master the art of meeting engagement (i.e., active involvement, collaboration, and participation in meetings),...

A Facilitator’s Strategies for Overcoming Resistance to Change

Dec 7, 2023 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure

Professional business facilitators confront a variety of challenges, perhaps none greater than overcoming resistance...

Mastering Meeting Facilitation Challenges: Tackling Common Hurdles Head-On

Oct 10, 2023 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

Meeting facilitation challenges vary depending on the specific context and the participants involved. However, some...

Facilitation Best Practices – 26 Articles To Help You Lead Better Meetings

Analysis Methods, Communication Skills, Decision Making, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools, Planning Approach, Problem Solving, Scrum Events

For over ten years, we have consistently posted articles on Facilitation Best Practices. Articles are written as...

How to Lead Meetings That Increase Your “Executive Presence”

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Structure

You may not think there's a difference between being proficient at organizing meetings versus being able to lead...

The Servant Leader Solution Benefits Everyone

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Structure

FEAR: F#©% Everything And Run If the thought of change instills the FUD factor in you (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt)...

Best One-Page Meeting Agenda Template Plus Three Workshop Agendas

Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure

Regardless of their personal style, experts and professionals who lead effective meetings rely on a simple, one-page...

Why Meeting Participants Have An Obligation To Contribute

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support, Problem Solving

Many articles talk about getting meeting participants involved. Seriously? If the meeting output impacts participants’...

How Scenario Planning Helps Prevent Missing Requirements

Analysis Methods, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Planning Approach, Problem Solving

Poor requirements don’t impede projects, missing requirements do. Experience has taught us that one approach stands...

Powerful Facilitation, Gratitude, and Scrum Guide 2020

Leadership Skills, Meeting Support, Scrum Events

While an attitude of gratitude promotes more powerful facilitation, you won’t hear the term ‘happy’ very often in one...

Remember the WHY Before the WHAT – An Integrative Problem Solving Framework and Agenda

Analysis Methods, Decision Making, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools, Problem Solving

Searching for a problem solving approach proven to work in a variety of situations? Whether you’re a group of highly...

This May Not Be For You, But if You Want to Build Collaboration . . .

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

Is it easy for you to build collaboration, commitment, and participation in meetings? Then feel free to walk away from...

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