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Dual Meeting Roles of Facilitators: Balancing Content and Process
In any meeting, facilitators play a critical role in guiding the group toward productive discussions and decision-making. However, facilitators often ...
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Dealing With Resistance in Meetings
It's true that facilitators set the tone of their meetings, and the process a facilitator provides can go a long way in preventing many forms of resis...
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What is a Training Facilitator
When it comes to training, you may have heard the term "training facilitator" floating around. But what exactly does this mean? Well, let's dive in an...
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Making the Case for Having Cameras On In Online or Hybrid Meetings
There is ample argument for and against participants appearing on camera in virtual meetings. The challenge with hybrid meetings is that having your c...
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We Have to Stop Meeting Like This: Facilitating a Discussion to Establish Meeting Norms
Each one of us has attended a bad meeting at some point in our lives. We have wandered into meeting rooms, notepad in hand, sometimes unsure of why we...
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Facilitating Introverted and Extroverted Participants: Myers Briggs and Facilitation Part 2
Part 2: Facilitating Introverts and Extroverts In my last blog posting, I argued that Myers-Briggs Type Indicator results do not determine how well p...
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Taking Process Facilitation to the Next Level
Facilitation First, President and Owner, Michael Goldman, recently had the pleasure of being a guest on the Wellbeing Podcast to share his expertise o...
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The Introverted and Extroverted Facilitator: Myers Briggs and Facilitation Part 1
Part 1: The Introverted and Extroverted Facilitator I’m sure that most of you have heard about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) or the relati...
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Sequential Questioning Technique for a Group Facilitator
The Sequential Questioning Technique is a powerful diverging tool for facilitating group discussions and gaining perspective on differing viewpoints. ...
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