I have been fortunate enough through my career to have sat as a member of community coalitions and advisory groups that were highly effective. In my Master’s degree program I studied community engagement processes and been mentored by some very skilled community leaders. I have also had the fortune of managing successful coalitions and advisory [...]
. More than once, I been in a meeting where ideas are being fostered — convergent and divergent — and the facilitator is fielding comments, writing notes and after the conversation runs its course, three or four easel chart pages latter, everyone pauses and it becomes clear that the group is thinking, “now what?” Then [...]
Have you ever encountered a facilitator whom over the course of a meeting wrote down lots of words on easel-pad paper, filled up the wall space with page after page of notes and at the end of the meeting simply transcribed the notes into a word processing document or worse, never captured the content at [...]
Facilitators are often called in to help design projects involving multiple stakeholders such as in convening interdepartmental workgroups, cross-functional teams or inter-agency committees and coalitions. For these assignments one of the key assessments that the facilitator needs to make is to determine whether the convening is for the purpose of accomplishing a task or for [...]
I believe that a workplan is a critical component of process improvement but is often under-resourced in the planning process. For example, I was recently asked to facilitate a meeting for an interdepartmental team that was in the early stages of operationalzing a major quality improvement initiative. The described goal of meeting was to develop [...]
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