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.
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...
Optimizing Your Content for Virtual Delivery
The following excerpt is drawn from one module of our new Virtual Facilitative Trainer workshop, developed by Kevin Quinn, an Adult Learning expert an...
Maximizing Engagement in Your Virtual Meetings
You may have noticed that meeting leaders need to work harder to engage participants during virtual meetings. Compared to face-to-face meetings, ther...
Are You Ready for Your Close Up? How to Show Up for Your Virtual Meetings
In our current reality of exclusively virtual meetings, an increasing number of organizations and leaders are requesting that cameras be on, if at all...
Facilitation First’s Virtual Meetings Best Practices
Virtual Meeting Best Practices Only hold a meeting when collaboration is required – status updates can be done via email Prepare: Design me...
Preventing Groupthink When its Decision-Making Time
Concurrence seeking is a natural tendency that we all, as human beings seek out. Let’s face it, who really wants to be seen as the lone wolf speakin...
Getting Buy–In on a Meeting Process
Process: A sequence of steps that have been strung together in a logical way to achieve a mutually agreed to outcome. A facilitator is typically br...
Keys to Creating Neutrality or ‘Perceived’ Neutrality
“A bridge has no allegiance to either side,” said British artist and author, Les Coleman. Indeed, bridges have long been universal symbols of conn...
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