2-Day Facilitator Skills Training Workshop April 13-14, 2020 in Madison, Wisconsin Do you want to lead meetings that harness a group’s full POWER and have FUN doing it? This facilitator training course is for you! Whether you are a sponsor, group leader, or participant, you will fill your basket with group engagement tools and know how […]
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Recruit the First Follower
How many times have you experienced a great learning or insight and returned to your workplace wanting to share it with everyone only to be met with a lukewarm response? This is a common concern we hear from those who attend our Journey Workshops…If only I could give my colleagues at home even a taste […]
Meeting Craft Workshop
The majority of managers spend at least 50% of their time in meetings every week. If that’s not depressing enough, much of this time is wasted! 4 billion dollars are spent in the U.S. yearly on meetings and a Microsoft study showed that 69% of those meetings are unproductive. Does your company have money to […]
Be an Innovative Facilitator
You know what they say about tree planting. The best time to plant one was years ago, the next best time is today. Do you need to innovate how you facilitate? Do you need to redesign your classic workshops or sessions or integrate new activities, tools, or techniques after learning more about your audience, often […]
Using Quaker Dialogue
You are facilitating a group of twelve stakeholders working to build an agreement about a long-term conservation plan. The group is made up of local elected officials, land owners, and members of local land trusts as well as professional conservationists. Your experience is that some people talk easily and often, while others rarely speak. What participation tool can I use to […]
Groups Are Annoying
I find it ironic sometimes that while I strongly believe in the importance of facilitation and very much enjoy doing it, there are certain elements of being a member of a group that I dislike. In fact, I’m anything but a joiner. I tend to move away from any long term involvement with groups. Why […]
Queasy about Conflict?
Why are we so nervous about conflict in the groups we facilitate? It is the anger, emotion and personal attacks in conflict that make us uncomfortable and that are debilitating to groups. Conflict is a normal, natural part of human interaction and sooner or later it is part of virtually every group’s experience. When acknowledged […]
Six Remote Management Mistakes
How do you manage people you rarely see? Though the same basic management principles apply to virtual teams that work for “live” teams, we sometimes assume the attitude, “out of sight, out of mind,” when it comes to managing people at a distance. Read about some of the common pitfalls of managing virtual teams below […]
Getting Grounded With Ground Rules
What are Ground Rules? Ground Rules, also referred to as Operating Norms or Operating Agreements (we’ll use this latter term from now on), form the boundary of a group’s process container. In a world where many of our ways of communicating are habitually dysfunctional, creating, committing to, and following good operating agreements is a huge […]
Prepare More, Meet Less
A smooth running meeting takes a bit of preparation…something most meeting leaders and attendees don’t do. Hence meetings drag on longer than they should, and tend to be less than phenomenal. Those leaders who do come prepared pave the way for productive, sometimes inspiring meetings, offer a great service to those in attendance. Those attendees […]
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