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.
Getting a New Leader on Board Part I
Change is the one constant we can depend on. Unfortunately, this means that even good situations – such as having a team leader who’s effective an...
Establishing Norms for a Successful Meeting
All groups and teams need guidelines to ensure a cooperative and supportive environment and defines the group’s culture. Most importantly norms are ...
Icebreakers: When, Why, and How to Use Them
We’ve been asked a lot about icebreakers and how to use them efficiently. They are a great way to warm up a group who may be meeting for the first t...
Ensuring Your Strategic Plan Is Put Into Action!
A lot of hard work and energy went into creating your company's strategic plan. But then reality hits, and there is no time to implement it! Deadlines...
Top 10 Characteristics of an Excellent Group Facilitator
A combination of skills and personality traits make a great group facilitator. Though there are many skills that excellent facilitators possess, here ...
Who Will Be In the Meeting? Facilitating Different Personalities
It can be challenging as a facilitator to manage the variety of personalities in any given meeting. As tempting as it might be to treat everyone the s...
Bringing A Group To Consensus
Does This Decision Require a Consensus? I've often had clients come to me for advice when their group can't seem to make timely decisions, and when...
Facilitating So Women Will Be Heard
Ask any group of women about their meeting pet peeves, and you are likely to hear many examples of being interrupted, not being called on for their ex...
How to Engage Introverts in Your Meetings
We have devoted several articles to strategies to tame the dominators in a meeting (see Bosses, Bullies, and Braggarts: How to Tame Meeting Dominators...
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Do you have a unique meeting challenge not covered by one of our blog posts? We’re always looking for different dilemmas to discuss in our articles!