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How to Facilitate SMEs to Categorize Lists of Ideas and Inputs

One of the worst questions a facilitator could ask is "How would you like to categorize these?" They don't know how. That's why they hired you. Categorizing and creating clusters of related items...

Rhetorical Precision: A Strategic Approach to Facilitation and Decision-Making for High-Stakes Projects

For project managers and product owners overseeing multi-million-dollar projects, the ability to facilitate impactful meetings with rhetorical precision and clarity is critical. The role of...

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...

Proven Methods for Managing Any and All Meeting Conflicts

No method anywhere can show you how to facilitate a resolution for ALL meeting conflicts. Sometimes, people or parties refuse to agree simply because they dislike each other. Yet while you may not...

How To Develop Questions that Lead to Better Meetings (Three Proven Methods Including the Perspectives Tool)

Mar 23, 2023 | Facilitation Skills, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

We’ve spoken about the power of questions . But while you know the right questions (in the right order) can lead...

A Facilitator’s Guide to Building Better Meetings (Meetings That Get Results !)

Sep 23, 2021 | Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools

The Purpose There’s nothing more frustrating than an unproductive meeting—except one that leads to another...

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...

Ingredients on How To Rescue a Bad Meeting

Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

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?

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

Daniel Pink’s newest research proves that the end of a meeting is more important than the beginning. Endings...

Your Meeting Pathway to Success and Supplemental Workshop Canvas

Analysis Methods, Decision Making, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools, Planning Approach, Problem Solving

Over the years, students and alumni have clamored for a simple reference sheet of our curriculum and how to prepare...

How to Facilitate Speakers and Conference Presentations

Analysis Methods, Decision Making, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools, Planning Approach, Problem Solving

During a four-day conference, we facilitated more than 20 speakers and varying presentations, each citing distinctive...

Don’t Run! How to Manage Meeting Conflict

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

A meeting without conflict is a boring meeting, and we’ve seen very little value derived from predictable and...

Liberating Structures Design Sprint Plan Contributed by Alumni and Guest, Douglas Ferguson

Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

Using Methods From Liberating Structures to Create a Robust Design Sprint Plan MG RUSH welcomes Douglas Ferguson as an...

Product Owner — Creating Products that Customers Love

Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools, Scrum Events

“Creating Products that Customers Love” strikes us as highly poignant, as much of the world heads toward a holiday...

12 Critical Facilitation Do’s and Don’ts to Lead Successful Meetings and Workshops

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

Our readers and students have clamored for a quick-reference checklist of the most important facilitation Do’s and...

Critical Questions to Answer with the Business Model Canvas

Communication Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

The Business Model Canvas was created by Alexander Osterwalder, of Strategyzer®. The canvas provides a one-page primer...

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