Archive for the ‘Facilitation Techniques’ Category
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
Constructivism in Facilitation
. Once a couple of years ago, I was in a car listening to my sister swear at the voice on her car’s GPS system and I once rented a car with the sometimes handy device. Until recently, that was the extent of my expertise with car directional GPS systems but ...Read More
Empowerment Education in Facilitation
. Raise you hand if in the last three months you have sat in a meeting that was dominated by process model of information presentation ==> discussion ==> and decision; followed by information presentation ==> discussion ==> and decision, in a pattern that was repeated until the end of the meeting? ...Read More
Facilitating for Government & Governance
. Over the course of my career I have studied with many talented facilitation mentors from both the organizational development world and the world of community organization. Studying and, more importantly, practicing in both worlds has helped me develop an understanding that there are two facilitation disciplines that require different sets ...Read More
Scenario Planning as a Facilitation Tool
. According to a recent study, “Many funders expect that they will come out of the downturn being far more strategic than they were before the crisis.” How about your agency? Check out how Facilitation & Process, LLC can help. And remember there is a little help each day in the ...Read More
Using Taxonomies in Facilitation
. Thinking ahead to the new year? Check out the services Facilitation & Process, LLC offers. Also follow the Resource of the Day on Twitter . If you have been following this blog, you likely already know that my goal is to move beyond “Facilitation 101” and focus on the deeper context of facilitation, which I ...Read More
Managing Documentation: A Key Facilitation Skill
. I once served on an advisory group process that spanned a number of months and consisted of a steering committee, a workgroup, three subcommittees and a couple of ad hoc committees. I was not the facilitator but a participant and as the weeks unfolded, I found myself increasingly frustrated by ...Read More
Facilitating Models of Social Impact
. I will confess that I am a visual learner. I like to not only see the big picture but to be able to draw it as well. This inclination towards a visual process has served me well in facilitation. In fact, I have staked out the position that visual learning is ...Read More
Facilitating a Reflection Process
. This post focuses on reflection as a Facilitation Technique and is part of a series on facilitation skill-building. . Recently I was asked to facilitate a meeting that was designed to be a reflection on the first year of implementing a new strategic plan. The goal of the meeting was to think about ...Read More
Advancing Capacity of Organizations: A Strategic Conversation
. In one of the early posts to this blog I offered a taxonomy to help nonprofits think about organizational capacity, resource development planning and fundraising. In that post I described capacity development as the practice of developing and maintaining staff skills, organizational systems and intellectual and physical resources required to ...Read More