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Powerful Facilitation, Gratitude, and Scrum Guide 2020

While an attitude of gratitude promotes more powerful facilitation, you won’t hear the term ‘happy’ very often in one of our meetings, sessions, or workshops, as the word is both subjective and...

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

Searching for a problem solving approach proven to work in a variety of situations? Whether you’re a group of highly paid nuclear physicists designing a new multimillion-dollar scanner or a group...

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

Is it easy for you to build collaboration, commitment, and participation in meetings? Then feel free to walk away from this article. If, however, you’re like most people, leading groups and teams...

5 Highly Effective Words for Business Meetings: Warning, Proceed With Caution!

Research conducted by professor Cynthia Rudin of M.I.T. and student Been Kim, on highly effective words for business meetings, found that the words yeah, give, start, and meeting have a larger...

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

Aug 12, 2021 | 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”

Jul 8, 2021 | 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

May 6, 2021 | 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)...

Questions to Ask If Using a Decision Quality Spider Chart (DQ Spider)

Analysis Methods, Meeting Structure

When making decisions, consider testing for decision quality (DQ)[1] so that you can avoid having another meeting. A...

Estimating Workshop and Meeting Duration — Tips and Guidelines

Meeting Agendas, Meeting Support

Accurate estimating for meeting duration helps optimize the schedules and expectations of your participants....

5 Tips on How to Facilitate Board Meetings (or Committees)

Leadership Skills, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Support

You may effectively facilitate Board Meetings by relying on Robert’s Rules of Order, however, blend in facilitative...

Facilitate Root Cause Analysis that Leads Directly to Innovation and Measures

Decision Making, Prioritizing, Problem Solving

By using root cause analysis, you can develop Objectives and Key Results (OKR), Critical to Quality (CTQ), Key...

Ensuring Meeting Inclusiveness — How to Value Diversity & Plurality

Meeting Support, Problem Solving

The primary responsibility of a facilitator is to protect the participants. Furthermore, the facilitator helps drive...

Scope Creep Kills: Facilitate Concern, Influence, and Control

Managing Conflict, Prioritizing

Scope creep kills projects. It also kills meetings. The consensual sphere of Concern, Influence, and Control helps a...

Use the Fist of Five to Test for Consensus on Contextual Issues

Decision Making, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

The Fist of Five approach combines the speed of thumbs up/ down and displays the degrees of agreement that can support...

How to Facilitate Prioritization and Build Consensus Quickly (or, MoSCoW)

Decision Making, Meeting Structure, Prioritizing

Strongly encouraged by Steve Jobs, as mentioned in his biography by Walter Isaacson, here is how to facilitate...

7 Reasons Why Agile Facilitation Provides a Powerful Mindset for Various Frameworks

Scrum Events

We love Agile and an Agile mindset. You should too. For most of you, some version of Agile methodology will replace or...

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