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.
A combination of skills and personality traits make a great group facilitator. Though there are many skills that excellent facilitators possess, here ...
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...
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...
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...
We have devoted several articles to strategies to tame the dominators in a meeting (see Bosses, Bullies, and Braggarts: How to Tame Meeting Dominators...
When wearing my ‘process’ facilitator hat I’m responsible for maximizing group engagement during a facilitated meeting. There are many ways to d...
It’s no surprise that teams occasionally lose track of the bigger picture and can lose focus and become unproductive, losing sight as to what they a...
In our last newsletter (Creating the Right Conditions for Brainstorming) we discussed how to proactively set up the right conditions for dealing with ...
Many times while facilitating a group in brainstorming (especially around 3:00 p.m.), I've noticed participants entering in to the BAD zone ("Brain-Al...
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!