Blog Posts
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The Power of Active Listening
The #1 problem with communication between 2 or more people in or outside of the workplace tends to be a lack of ‘active’ listening. We see this pl...
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Meeting Facilitator or Meeting Chair – Who Should Lead the Meeting?
If you are new to the concept of a meeting chair, you may be asking yourself what is the difference anyway? While both a meeting chair and a meeting f...
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The Good, the Bad and the Boring of Workplace Meetings
VIRGINIA GALT Special to The Globe and Mail Published March 26, 2018 Michael Goldman, President and Founder of Facilitation First was recently intervi...
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Things to Consider When Co-Facilitating a Meeting
Adapted from Roger M. Schwarz ‘Working with Another Co-Facilitator’ As a professional trainer in the area of meeting or process facilitation, I...
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Ensuring Empowerment Works
Early in my career I noticed that some groups dread being asked to provide opinions or recommendations because they feel that their input is rarely in...
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To Scrum Or Not To Scrum…
Is this Agile Approach Right For Your Team Meetings? I’m often asked by clients if they should adopt an agile, scrum meeting approach for their mee...
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Facipulation vs Facilitation: What’s The Difference?
What is facipulation? Have you ever attended a meeting led by a supposedly neutral facilitator, only to realize that there’s a hidden agenda they�...
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The Impact of Unchecked Assumptions Part II
In our last post, we looked at the dangers of assumptions and how to minimize these dangers via forwarding a pre-meeting email that identifies who, wh...
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The Impact of Unchecked Assumptions Part I
We’ve all been in a series of meetings where lots of points are discussed, opinions fly fast and hot and it seems like a lot is getting done - but w...
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