8 Meeting Purposes and Five Reasons to Host Facilitated Sessions
Effective meetings are first based on a clear line of sight to an end result, preferably something that can be documented. Yet, frequently meeting purposes rely on determining WHAT deliverable or result to create. Consequently, using meeting time...
9 Tips Proven to Increase Meeting Competence and Output Quality
Without effective leadership, you can win the agenda but lose the meeting. Meeting competence demands that you take responsibility to prevent collective incompetence. For example, do not allow 'showboating' and meetings within meetings....
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, my way is to divide half a sheet of paper by a line into two columns; writing over the one pro, and over the other con; then during...
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. Borrowing from the PMBoK (i.e., Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge) and other published sources, the following are...
15 Quick Tips to Help You Become a More Successful Facilitative Leader
Here are 15 quick tips to help you become a more successful facilitative leader. “The wisdom of the crowd” effect has long been recognized, but scientists have gone further by showing that the strategy works even when the crowd consists of one...
“Brainsteering” Recommends 5 Activities to Improve Brainstorming
Through more robust planning and preparation, the facilitator and methodologist can do much to amplify the brainstorming tool. Here are five activities to help you. The Harper-Collins book “Brainsteering: A Better Approach to Breakthrough Ideas”...
Use a Professional Meeting Wrap-up Because Most Meetings Don’t End, They Stop
Daniel Pink's book When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing stresses the importance of the meeting wrap-up. He calls it "ending on a high note." Others refer to the power of the recency effect. Below find four critical activities needed to...
Leadership Style and How to Improve Yours Quickly
Leadership style depends largely on the flow of content: Directive—one-way, Consultative—equal partner in content, and Exploratory—facilitative, not adding content. Directive A leader who predominantly gives direction and guidance with little...
Meeting Boundaries to Closely Manage: Directed or Facilitated
While there are three primary types of business meetings: information-sharing, instructional or directional task-related meetings, and facilitated or developed task-related meetings, an effective leader must closely manage the meeting boundaries to...
Fix Meeting Challenges that Remove Energy from Meetings
Amazingly, talented people who care can come together and yet fail demonstrably in a ‘meeting.’ Meetings fail because the participants do not know HOW TO succeed. Meeting challenges include anything that takes the energy from meetings. To deal with...
Indirect Meeting Costs and Other Challenges You Can Overcome
Meetings are frequently a fix for poor leadership. Most would rather go to a movie than sit in a two-hour meeting. Almost all poor movies at least contain a beginning, middle, and end. Indirect meeting costs represent a huge area for cost control...
Use Writing Easels or Whiteboards When Facilitating Meetings and Workshops
The National Speakers' Association stated that the most important change speakers could make to be more effective would be to be more facilitative. By that, they meant the use of interaction, solicitation, and capture of participants' ideas....
How You Can Help Your Meeting Participants Become Better Listeners
The effective facilitator helps meeting participants become better listeners. Dr. Ralph Nichols, “Father of the Field of Listening”, notes three behaviors that perfectly align with the roles of facilitator, and your hope to be more effective, that...
Three Questions You Need to Answer Before Your Meeting Begins
You must consider these three questions before you take on the role of session leader for any meeting or workshop. Prompted by “Three (Incredibly Simple) Questions The Most Successful People Use To Change The World,” Forbes contributor Mike Maddock...
Facilitators vs. Dictators: Facilitators are More Popular
Comparing facilitators vs dictators we surprisingly discover that the term ‘facilitator’ becomes more popular. As measured by frequency of use, the trend for facilitator rises since 1995. The message is clear. If you want to be more popular, be a...
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