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Why Meeting Participants Have An Obligation To Contribute
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Problem Solving Articles
How Scenario Planning Helps Prevent Missing Requirements
Poor requirements don’t impede projects, missing requirements do. Experience has taught us that one approach stands...
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...
Ensuring Meeting Inclusiveness — How to Value Diversity & Plurality
The primary responsibility of a facilitator is to protect the participants. Furthermore, the facilitator helps drive...
The Purpose Tool: Building the Strategic Plan for a Function, Process, Activity or Product
Assuredly, organizational executives are known to go off-site to conduct strategic planning sessions, building...
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...
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...
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 Decision-Making Using Pros and Cons
First, here is the traditional Pros and Cons method according to its creator, Benjamin Franklin: “For pros and cons,...
Facilitated Meetings Help Overcome 7 Common Product and Project Pitfalls
Facilitative leadership provides the best assurance that team leads/ project managers can overcome project pitfalls....
“Brainsteering” Recommends 5 Activities to Improve Brainstorming
Through more robust planning and preparation, the facilitator and methodologist can do much to amplify the...
How to Facilitate Brainstorming: Ideation and Analysis
The term “brainstorming” is technically a gerund, a verb that wants to be a noun. A gerund implies more than one step...
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