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.
Who Should Lead the Meeting – the Chair or the Facilitator?
Whether I’m delivering a keynote address or training facilitation skills, one central issue consistently surfaces – who should run the meeting, th...
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 in...
Your Meeting Stinks! How To Negotiate A Great Meeting Process
When a new client asks me to facilitate, the first task I’m confronted with is developing a meeting process. 'Process' refers to "a sequence of step...
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...
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...
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...
Facilitation Vs. Facipulation: What’s The Difference?
Have you ever attended a meeting led by a supposedly neutral facilitator, only to realize that there’s a hidden agenda they’re leading the group t...
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...
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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