About Us
I’m Steve Davis, founder of FacilitatorU, a Virtual University offering “Real Time” Tools, Training and Resources for group leaders. Our just-in-time tools, training, and resources include a special emphasis on helping leaders and participants improve their inner game to leverage their presence to improve group collaboration. Many … read more
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Naming Synergy Blocking Attitudes
We often tend to get in our own way when it comes to collaborating and building synergy with others. The term synergy, by the way refers to the possibility of a group being far more creative and effective than the sum of individuals that make it up. Many of the assumptions, attitudes, and habits that [...]
Don’t be an Allopathic Facilitator
Allopathic: The Western Medical model in use today, is based upon the concept that the physician is responsible for the healing, and that “disease” must be eradicated from the body using heroic intervention. I chose to use this term to describe an issue that often befalls us in our efforts to facilitate organizational interventions. We’re [...]
You are a Process
Facilitating processes for others means facilitating your process too. Facilitators spend a lot of time preparing material and frameworks for setting up and running effective group processes. They may assemble resources relevant to the focus of their group. They attempt to anticipate some of the problems, concerns, and challenges that may present themselves so that they’ll [...]
How to Use Talking Circles for Deep Communication
When you put your knowledge in a circle, it’s not yours anymore, it’s shared by everyone. –Douglas Cardinal, Architect– The term “Talking Circle” comes to us from the Native American tradition and is again finding broad appeal in contemporary culture. Talking circles are being used by facilitators of personal and spiritual growth, grade school teachers, [...]
Experiencing the Tenets of Facilitation
The One Word Story is an experiential activity that can be debriefed to illustrate the importance of ground rules or basic teamwork skills. This activity can easily be done virtually as well as face to face. Also note that the activity contains guildlines for each stage of the Kolb Learning Cycle. Activity: One Word Story—Ground rules/teamwork [...]
Great Leaders Are Great Followers
We’ve heard a lot in the business world about the importance of good leadership, attributes of a good leader, the importance of being a (fill in the blank) type of leader, etc. But we’ve not heard much about the attributes and importance of good followership. Since by definition there will always be more followers than [...]
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