It’s About Time

March 8, 2011 by 2 Comments

One evening during the week when I was delivering the Journey of Facilitation and Collaboration Workshops at UW, Madison with my colleagues Darin and Harry, I joined Darin and his friends Bret and Tom for a guitar jam session. During this session, I had a very interesting experience with time. In this week’s article, It’s About Time, I reflect on this experience as a metaphor for facilitation and offer some tips you might find helpful. Click here to read the entire article.

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  1. Julia says:
    March 8, 2011 at 1:27 pm

    Steve
    What a wonderful moment of awakening & how true. As facilitators our role is to create the “space” in which the group can achieve its goals. Sometimes that is a physical or process related arrangement, but every time it is the pause to listen, the patience to sense the rhythm, pace and appetite a group has for a topic that are the keys to good facilitation – often unseen or unnoticed.
    Way to go dude.
    Best wishes
    Julia
    The Netherlands

  2. Jane says:
    March 8, 2011 at 2:52 pm

    Steve
    i read each of your newsltetters and always get something from them, but this one spoke to me more than most. Time is so important and knowing how to use it is the key to making good outcomes great or successes into spectacular success. Wasn’t it Louie Armstrong that said it was all about the spaces between the notes? He too found the spacing and timing and pauses were the key to good work.

    Im my translation of timing I have begun facilitating in shorter intense stints and find the more frequent shorter sessions allows for better integration of the lessons, greater group integration and team building and better work product.

    How I would have loved to be a mouse in a corner for your improvisatinal jazz session. Thanks for the newsletter and taking me on these journeys of deeper thinking about the work I love.
    jane

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