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Why facilitation remains an important skill for innovation and success
This month we're reposting an interview by Douglas Ferguson with Terrence Metz, Managing Director of MGRUSH...
Don’t Run! How to Manage Meeting Conflict
A meeting without conflict is a boring meeting, and we've seen very little value derived from predictable and...
Values Provide and Answer to Who are We ? — Benjamin Franklin Called Them Virtues
We always find it interesting that consulting firms promulgate their own, unique operational definitions. For...
Interviewing Questions to Ask to Understand Political Risks in Meetings
Interview participants to understand as much as possible about them, the people they work with, and their business. To...
Facilitate: Indispensable in Guide to the Business Analyst Body of Knowledge ®
How to run a better meeting is like learning to be a better listener, easy to understand but hard to do. Why? Poor...
Compelling Reasons for Structured Meetings | Positive Impact on Stakeholders
Using structured meetings with facilitation and professional meeting design quickly gets people to focus on the right...
Core Competency: Planning Changes Minds, Not Simply Make Plans
Facilitating a planning session makes you a change agent. Because even President Eisenhower (then General) was known...
Do Facilitators Need to be Subject Matter Experts? Content vs. Context
Some of the best facilitators are NOT Subject Matter Experts within the topic and scope of the discussion. However,...
9 Components of a Structured Meeting or Workshop
A facilitated structured meeting or workshop provides an environment designed to extract high-quality information in a...
Meeting Impact: Poor Facilitation Leads to Problems, Struggles, and Errors
A primary concern in meetings and information-gathering activities is getting good information—to build the right...
6 Potent Ways to Facilitate Meeting Conflict Response and Manage Conflict
Facilitators must understand and manage meeting conflicts. Therefore, we must first understand our own internal...
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