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Getting Grounded With Ground Rules

August 25, 2014 by Steve Davis 4989Leave a CommentGetting+Grounded+With+Ground+Rules+2014-08-25+18%3A28%3A51Steve+Davis

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 […]

Can You Pass the Blackberry Test?

January 30, 2012 by Steve Davis 4594 CommentsCan+You+Pass+the+Blackberry+Test%3F2012-01-30+20%3A21%3A36Steve+Davis

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, smart phones, blackberries, and other culprits of multitasking. My thinking on this problem was expanded recently when […]