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When The Group Just Won’t Agree…
In our June article, we looked at Affinity Diagrams, a way to organize and synthesize large volumes of input, strategies or solutions. This is a great...
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Help! We’re Drowning In a Flood of Ideas
Many times I find myself in meetings where I’m tasked to get a group to generate ideas. The difficulty comes when I’m facilitating a larger group ...
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Decision Traps: Avoiding Barriers to Great Decision Making
Quite frequently when we meet and collaborate, we're making decisions. The many small decisions we make in meetings add up to the big decisions, which...
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Open Dialogue for Workplace Success: The Power of Effective Meetings
The Challenge of Workplace Communication In many organizations, workplace communication can sometimes take a troubling turn. Critical issues that sho...
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Scrap it! – When the Facilitator Needs to Redesign the Agenda
When we walk into a meeting with an agenda as a facilitator, we’re already one step ahead of the game. Instead of a loose set of topics being discus...
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I Can’t Say That – She’s the Boss!
At one time or another, most of us have experienced a leader sabotage the agenda, dominate the discussion, openly negate staff input – behaviours th...
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Troubleshooting the Action Plan: Creating Your Plan B
Creating lofty action plans seems to be the rule of many strategic planning sessions these days. Most team members truly intend to fulfill their oblig...
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Just Say No! The Power of the “Decline” or “Tentative” Response to a Meeting Invite
It’s not uncommon for interpersonal or political considerations to result in meeting bloat, where too many people end up invited to a meeting that t...
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Pull Vs. Push: Facilitator Reactions to Resistance
At our Facilitating Through Conflict workshop last week, the class really embraced my suggested approach when dealing with resistance. We see resistan...
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