{"id":453185952,"count":70,"description":"<i>Facilitating Skills ---<\/i>\u00a0The indispensable servant skills that make it easier for meetings to get <i>DONE<\/i> faster through active listening, precise questioning, and timely challenging. (3)\r\n\r\nThree core facilitation skills for meeting leaders who value facilitation, servant leadership, and getting DONE faster (structure). As meeting facilitator, you need to command these core skills but, at the same time, remember to always reduce or eliminate distractions so that your group stays focused.\r\n<h2>1. Speaking and Questioning Clearly<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Being parsimonious\u2014expressing the most with the least<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Clarifying the meaning of terms\u2014timely expanding and focusing conversation<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Commanding the language\u2014properly applying the parts of speech<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Discovering the objective evidence, examples, facts, and logic<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Distilling content contributions accurately, if not verbatim<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Seeking objective measurements behind subjective biases<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>2. Actively Listening and Observing Constantly<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Contacting and absorbing\u2014noticing participants\u2019 verbal, nonverbal, and paraverbal (such as tone) aspects<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Confirming\u2014ensuring accuracy<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Monitoring time, pace, and other environmental \u201cnoise\u201d that might get in the way<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Reflecting emotions, feelings, opinions, and other supporting rationale<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Scanning for acceptance, rejection, or uncertainty from any participant<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>3. Remaining Neutral and Controlling Context without Fail<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Applying ground rules to get more done faster<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Creating a climate of acceptance and trust<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Documenting options or action plans without bias<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Helping participants decide and prioritize without your judgment<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Instructing participants how to structure their doubts or fears<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Stimulating conversations about <em>an<\/em> answer, not <em>the<\/em> answer<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nBeing a meeting leader requires managing three<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>additional roles\u2014meeting coordinator, meeting documenter, and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>meeting designer\u2014that are quite independent of the role of meeting<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>facilitator and facilitation skills.\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>All servant leaders are leaders, but not all leaders are servant leaders.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>All skilled meeting facilitators are servant leaders, but not all\u00a0servant leaders facilitate meetings.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nAs the workplace transforms, leadership techniques change. Today, instead of dealing mostly with individuals (one-on-one conversations), servant leaders work frequently with people in groups (ceremonies, events, meetings, and workshops). Instead of supervising hours of workload, servant leaders help their teams become self-managing. Instead of directing tasks, servant leaders motivate people to achieve results.\r\n\r\n<i>Serving:<\/i> Resistance to change, importance of knowledge transfer, and the immense value of meetings based on clear thinking, servant leadership skills, and structured meeting design. 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