Agile vs Waterfall? Don’t Risk Failure By Using the Wrong One
A professional facilitator handles several types of assignments, from planning to design. However, most facilitators must also provide a method for securing the deliverable. Although a different role, the ‘methodologist’ responsibilities make up...
Scope Creep Kills Projects – It Begins in Poorly Facilitated Meetings
Have you ever heard someone say in a meeting “I don’t know why we’re doing this project in the first place?” Odds are, the meeting is being held to advance the project, not re-validate it. The person asking the question has now imposed their agenda...
Make Your Meetings Meaningful – Follow These Four Tips to Build Team Members
Back in the day, when I was in school, I must've heard it several times a week: "Stop talking and get to work!" Being a natural extrovert/Chatty Cathy, I was often in trouble for, well, talking too much. Maybe I've come full circle. Now I'm the one...
Don’t Ruin Your Scrum Sprints — Facilitate Scrum Events Using These Agendas
The Agile mindset demands frequent, and continuing, interaction among its stakeholders. Perhaps more so with Scrum, than other frameworks. From Daily Scrum activities to Sprint Retrospective events held every one to four weeks, Scrum facilitation...
Want To Be Heard? Stop Talking — The Power of Silence by Karen Snyder
You probably don’t believe that silence is one of my favorite tools. Certainly, when I taught a presentation skills class to Johns Hopkins graduate students, they did not expect me to talk about silence! But I did. And at the end of the week, their...
Advanced Real-Win-Worth Screening Method that Supports Strategic Decisions
Previously, we defined 'best' as projects that performed well in an innovation test, focusing on the relative technology and market risks associated with new ideas (e.g., processes, products, etc.). With the Real-Win-Worth framework—designed for...
Facilitation Skills Ensure Quicker and Fewer Meetings that Get Results
Successful leaders have one thing in common: Strong facilitation skills. What are the core facilitation skills (or, facilitator skills)? Which skills do you need to lead a successful meeting? Depending on who you ask, there may be: 6 Essential...
Public Relations Innovation: New Ideas Shaping Service and Community Influence
Alex Osborn, the driving force behind the concept of 'brainstorming,' shared a timeless message with public relations professionals in 1948 that remains just as relevant today. His message is especially pertinent now: while facts and scientific...
Risk Analysis – Method and Questions to Facilitate A Portfolio of Projects
Project portfolios focused on the best opportunities, and accelerate innovation. So how do you build consensus around the term “best”? George Day’s article[1] provides excellent logic to help you drive a consensual view of risk analysis. “The risk...
How to Build Action Plans with Shared Ownership and Accountability
To build an action plan (or, a strategic plan) that transfers ownership and accountability to your meeting participants, begin with the right questions, in the right sequence. Be one of the few facilitators who understand that ownership transfers...
Scrum Master Facilitator Techniques Improve Meetings
Agile's Scrum Master facilitator techniques ensure that business communities get quick and responsive results. Constant feedback helps teams prioritize and make adjustments. A Scrum Master facilitates against impediments and for product owners'...
Meeting Killers: Eight Ways to Kill A Meeting and Your Reputation
Below are eight habits we call meeting killers that every facilitator, or meeting leader, must avoid. Neglect to prepare your participants in advance. Meeting Killers: Have you ever been in a meeting where someone asks: “So, what’s this all about?”...
The Primer on Facilitation Certification – Associations Through Universities
With facilitation today there is no common, shared body of knowledge. In part, because facilitation is a fuzzy word and widely applied, there is no single definition -- making Facilitation Certification fuzzy as well. In North America, there are...
Reasons for Workshop Success: Witnessed by an MG Rush Alumna
Even the best facilitators in the world will fail miserably if they don’t show up prepared. Anyone can succeed with enough forethought, as shared with us by an MGRUSH Alumna. “Workshop success! I’m happy to share that yesterday’s SE Asia Region...
How to Use the Principles of Agile’s Daily Scrum in Your Staff Meetings
There are good meetings and there are long meetings but there aren’t many good, long meetings. Therefore, Agile's Daily Scrum event encourages self-evolving teams to meet daily, yet briefly. Strictly time-boxed to fifteen minutes duration, the...
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