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Design an environment that supports people, purpose, and process Just ask any of the growing number of Feng Shui consultants how important your environment is to your effectiveness. I’m sure each of you can remember a time attending an event where something in the environment either supported or hindered your involvement in, or enjoyment of [...]
How Can Work Be Fun? How often to you hear statements like these: “They can’t be getting any work done over there, they’re always laughing.” “We don’t have time for play right now, we’ve got work to do!” “They’re having just too much fun.” Tell me, how can anyone have too much fun? And personally, [...]
In many situations, two or three heads are better than one. When it comes to presenting a workshop it is often much easier on everyone if there is more than one person leading the group. Here are several ways in which co-facilitation can benefit both the facilitators and the participants. Capitalizing on Strengths. Co-facilitation allows [...]
People tend to get easily frustrated by group meetings. And how can we blame them? The vast majority of meetings we’ve attended throughout our lives have been less than uplifting, to say the least. You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in modern society who would tell you that they actually enjoy attending meetings. “Oh no. [...]
What facilitators don’t know can serve their groups In most cases, facilitators are highly regarded professionals. We must present a strong and professional image as we’re “on stage” much of the time, performing an important function for our clients, employees, students, neighbors, etc. And as is often the case with people standing in front of [...]
The draw of cell phones and various electronic devices seems to be consuming an increasing amount of our attention. The inappropriate use of these technologies in classrooms, meetings, and working groups is a growing concern among many facilitators and trainers. In this article we offer ideas several facilitators have found useful in dealing with this [...]
Available distractions in facilitation and training environments are on the rise with the ubiquitous use of smartphones these days. I consistently hear challenges leaders have getting their participants to focus on the meeting versus being distracted by their laptops, cell phones, blackberries, and other culprits of multitasking. My thinking on this problem was expanded recently [...]
The deeper we delve into any subject, the more complex and intricate it can become. I think it’s common to think that to become an advanced practitioner of facilitation, or any art for that matter, that we need to move in the direction of increasing complexity. While a deeper and/or broader scope of knowledge and [...]
Tapping into the field of knowing My inquiry into the concept and practice of intuition among my peers led to many interesting responses. I’ve organized these questions and their responses below in a way I hope you’ll find useful. What is intuition? Intuition: 1. a. The act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the [...]
As we move into the end of yet another year together, I’ve been thinking about what I could share that would help to clarify and simplify our work in the world of group leadership and facilitation. It occurred to me that as life long learners, our field can get pretty complicated with all the models, [...]
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