In managing capital projects or leading teams, facilitators often grapple with prioritization, where every item can...
The Bookend Method: A Rhetorical Strategy for Facilitators to Improve Decision-Making
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How to Use a Tools for Definitions Making It Easier to Consensually Plan and Decide
To build an operational and consensual definition that your group can live with, in their own words, and with their...
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 Few Dozen Highly Effective Icebreakers (aka, Meeting Sparks)
Use icebreakers to get participants vocal and more participatory sooner by introducing themselves beyond name and...
One Essence, Three Aspects: The Rule of Thirds in the World of Facilitation
The rule of thirds helps guide the facilitator and meeting designer. The Project Management Institute (PMI) refers to...
A Metaphor is Worth a Thousand Pictures: Explained Via Analogy
In the role of facilitator, you will discover a lot of power by using metaphors or analogies to explain your method....
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...
How Experience and Qualifications Amplify the Planning Fallacy (i.e., “Overconfidence”)
Research by Ana Guinote and Mario Weick shows that people in positions of power are particularly ineffective planners....
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