Archive for the ‘Facilitation Techniques’ Category
Facilitating Nonprofit Technology Planning
. Facilitation & Process, LLC provides customized and tailored solutions to your strategic planning, performance, planning, and facilitation needs. Check out our services and follow the Resources of the Day on Twitter. . For the last couple of decades, technology has been advancing at a breakneck speed, with each generation of technology continuing ...Read More
Facilitating a SWOT Analysis
. The role of assessing the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT ) in nonprofit strategic planning is often misunderstood and misused. At the most extreme a SWOT analysis is confused with the strategic planning process with an organization believing that a SWOT is the sum total of strategic planning. ...Read More
Facilitating for Simplicity and Clarity
. I have been using Twitter in my practice for about six months now. My account @facilitationpro is primarily a place where I promote and cultivate the practice of information scanning and knowledge management. To stay current in the fields of performance improvement, nonprofit management and trends in philanthropy, I scan ...Read More
Facilitating Event Planning for a Distributed Team
. Recently I have been talking to several clients that are seeking facilitation services for the planning of events that are a month or two away and are looking for assistance in convening geographically diverse teams in planning the events. Having planned many regional and national conferences over my 17 plus ...Read More
Five Principles of a Solution-Focused Facilitation Process
. In my consulting I have made it a practice to discuss with clients my philosophical approach and the foundational theories that I use to in facilitation. I find this is often time well spent because it helps to create a shared space for our working relationship. One “shared space” discussion ...Read More
Facilitating Conversations on Collaboration
. In my last post I asserted that the nonprofit organizations of tomorrow are being born out of the economic crisis of today. In this current economic turmoil, there are many voices counseling the nonprofit world to increase “collaboration.” Unfortunately, many of these experts are using “collaboration” as euphemism for “merger ...Read More
Facilitating Nonprofit Strategy in Economic Uncertainty
. I recently read, yet one more so-called expert advice column promoting the ultimatum of “merge” or “die” as the pathway for many nonprofits. In this iteration, the ultimatum arises out of the knee jerk reaction caused by the recent economic downturn. Citing duplication of service and competition for scarce resources, ...Read More
Facilitating Advisory Groups: Labels & Social Contracts
. When convening a group, two of the primary tasks of a facilitator are to clearly articulate the label that is applied to the group and to create an appropriate social contract between group members. The terms “workgroup,” “taskforce,” “coalition” and “advisory group” are labels that are often used loosely and ...Read More
Inquiry as a Facilitation Skill
. I have been working on a business-planning project for a client. As part of the front-end assessment I have been doing a series of in-person and telephone interviews. The interview structure includes inward conversations with key staff, board members, and volunteers involved with the agency, interviewing the “second circle” of ...Read More
Facilitating Transitions
. One question that frequently comes up when potential clients contact me is “When do I need to bring in an outside facilitator?” If you ask three or ten different facilitators the same question one will get three or ten different answers. Early on in this blog I outlined some heuristics ...Read More