How to Facilitate Olympic Scoring – Innovative Ideas & Concepts
The Purpose of Olympic Scoring is to extract some consensually validated new product, process, or other innovative ideas or concepts while encouraging 100 percent participation. The following is particularly appropriate when facilitating Olympic...
Twenty Popular Brain Teasers to Stimulate Meeting Participants
Here are twenty very common examples of Brain Teasers. Our MGRUSH Facilitative Leadership and Facilitator Workshop alumni have digital rights to access thousands of Brain Teasers (or, Brain Breaks/ Brakes as a double entendre). If you need help...
How to Make Thinking Visible — Three Forms of Business Argumentation Support
The main reason for categorizing input relies on a common purpose. Most groups gather around a common purpose. For example, treasury groups gather their departments around financial capital. While human resources gather their departments around...
Methodological Awareness About Deming’s 14 Points of Continuous Improvement
Every minute somewhere, someone refers to Deming’s term SMART (i.e., Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-Based). Lesser known, however frequently copied, you will find his philosophy of continuous improvement. Therefore, true to his...
Appreciate the Value of Argumentation and Meeting Argumentation
A strong facilitator should understand and appreciate the value of argumentation, specifically meeting argumentation. She should understand the holarchial nature of business and align people organized around a common cause. Critical thinking helps...
Fun, Quick, and Effective Icebreakers for Large Groups (and Small Ones Too)
All groups, especially very large groups, perform better when the participants know something about each other. Even though time constraints prohibit traditional, self-spoken icebreakers for large groups (e.g., 60 people for two minutes each burns...
Develop the Basis for a Successful Meeting or Workshop in Four Easy Steps
Here is how to develop the basis for a successful meeting framework in four easy steps. To prepare your meeting framework write down the program purpose, project scope, meeting deliverables, and likely participants. Method Finish the following:...
Appreciative Inquiry — A Facilitative Path for the Future
Organizations seeking to change HOW they work use consider Appreciative Inquiry. The Appreciative Inquiry approach evaluates various viewpoints to create an evolutionary path for the future. It leverages brainstorming, prioritizing, sub-teams, 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 instance, the term ‘values’ can be found called many things including “Guiding Principles”, “Tenets of Operation”, “Virtues”, “Essential...
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 understand the political risks in meetings, speak with your participants. Preferably, sit with them one-on-one for about 30...
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 muscle memory. What can we do about it? Change our muscle memory. While perfect practice remains the best way to overcome poor muscle...
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 question at the right time. Structured meetings capture broad and specific wisdom by sticking to facts. Groups fail (or operate at...
Ignite Your Will and Create Meaningful Change in Your Community
In Brian Aull’s book The Triad: Three Civic Virtues That Could Save American Democracy, you’ll find an insightful approach to living in any democracy. For over a decade, the MG Rush Leadership Technique has also promoted a ‘trivium.’ The "Law of...
94 Different Purposes of Meetings Yield Three Common Themes
While by no means ‘exhaustive,’ we researched and assembled various meeting types and purposes of meetings from dozens of sources, too many to provide attribution for a brief blog (write us if you want more detail). Therefore, we found it humorous...
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 to say, “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” While an effective...
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