Blog Posts
Welcome to our blog! Here you can find articles written by our team of professional facilitators. Our posts feature tips, tricks, tools, dilemmas and discussions that will help you improve your personal facilitation skills and increase your understanding of how to collaborate effectively.
Skilled Facilitators Engage With Great Questions
The Power of Participation & Engagement: The Five Core Facilitator Best Practices Series (Stay Neutral | Listen Actively | Ask Questions | Paraphr...
Easy Tips for Becoming a Better Listener
The Power of Participation & Engagement: The Five Core Facilitator Best Practices Series (Stay Neutral | Listen Actively | Ask Questions | Paraphr...
Virtual Breakout Room Best Practices
Anyone who has been through our training knows that our number one proactive engagement strategy is sub-grouping. Breaking a larger group into pairs, ...
Don’t Be a Facipulator! Is Your Lack Of Neutrality Stifling Participation In Your Meetings?
The Power of Participation & Engagement: The Five Core Facilitator Best Practices Series (Stay Neutral | Listen Actively | Ask Questions | Paraphr...
Time Crunched In Your Virtual Meetings? How to Allocate Timing in Your Meeting Design
One question we are often asked in our workshops; is how do you know how much time to allocate each topic to ensure you don’t over or under load the...
Facilitating Through the Storm: The Importance of Interpersonal Norms
Now that many teams have been working remotely for months with no immediate plans for change, it may be time to take a closer look at what is working ...
Running Engaging Meetings on Zoom Just Got Even Better!
The Facilitation First team is so excited about the latest Zoom upgrade (5.3 or higher), we decided to blog about it. With over a hundred virtual sess...
Be Proactive! Structure Your Meetings to Create Clarity & Minimize Challenging Behaviours
How you structure your meeting could invite conflict, off topic remarks, dominators, or, the flip side, create more engaged participants moving toward...
Infusing Fun into your next Virtual Meeting: Online Warm-Ups & Energizers
Let’s face it, online meetings can be awkward, especially when you don’t know anyone on the video call. You might still be waking up with your fir...
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