Removing Barriers to Collaboration
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 [...]
Once we “become” something, like a facilitator, coach, teacher, consultant, trainer, counselor, therapist, minister, or a member of any number of the “helping” professions, I believe that something very good and something not so good begins to happen. As we delve into our new field, our understanding and expertise deepen, but at the same time, [...]
Most organizations are operating in a virtual hamster wheel intent on finding problems, processing information, proposing solutions, and executing actions plans. Rarely do we question the context from which these problems arise and within which they are defined. Shifting context is not that hard and it changes everything. So what if we could shift contexts [...]
Effective adult training and development will emphasize participant engagement and co-creation of the course content so that relevant experience of participants is tapped and shared, and opportunities exist to practice new skills and receive feedback to assure learning transfer. In my opinion, effective training and development is really better defined as Learning Facilitation. We have several resources [...]
Be a Model of Presence One of the attractive aspects of facilitation is that you don’t have to do the work for your group. Though sometimes, what you do have to do is a lot harder. One of those things, which I see as the hallmark of an advanced facilitator, is our ability to be [...]
Many presenters take advantage of the ease with which mountains of verbose slides can be produced in not time using PowerPoint. In truth, Death by PowerPoint became a cliche because presentations are usually designed by presenters, for presenters, making the creation of a lot of information way to easy. In this 30-minute Webinar, we look at mistakes to avoid, key [...]
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, [...]
Facilitation as a discipline has been around since the 60’s and 70’s It is used by organizational development consultants, facilitators, trainers, business coaches, project managers, meeting leaders, clergy, and other group leaders. Still, it’s not well known by the majority of people who meet every day in groups. Even among its practitioners, a clear definition [...]
This week we talk about facilitating challenging “egos” in an article submitted by my friend and colleague, Dr. Eileen Dowse. In Fine Points of Sushi Preparation and Consumption, she reviews the various manifestations of ego, a story of a typical problem ego encounter, and tips for working with big egos in healthy ways. Click here [...]
This week we explore Facilitation Aikido: Part II, extracted from Barry Shapiro’s book, Casting Call in the Theatre of Corporate America…the role of the extraordinary facilitator. Barry’s Facilitation Aikido model offers simple laser strategies for intervening on the five most challenging behaviors we typically encounter in groups. He takes a fresh perspective that views energy [...]
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