Archive for the ‘Technology in Facilitation’ 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
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 Knowledge Creation & Management
. As groups and teams work together on planning or performance improvement initiatives there is often a secondary agenda of creating and capturing knowledge. So, for example a healthcare team wanting to improve patient services might meet to develop a series of rapid cycle tests using the Plan, Do, Study, Act ...Read More
Facilitating Technology-based Collaborative Workspaces Part 2
. In Part 1 of this post I discussed the roles of a facilitator in helping teams function in a technology-based workspace that was specific to document co-creation (as opposed to web-based training). The basic message is that all projects need to lead with a consideration of facilitation followed by the ...Read More
Facilitating Technology-based Collaborative Workspaces Part 1
. In an age of networks and distributed technology the convening and teams located in different offices or even different continents is an increasingly common phenomenon. Web-based training, email discussion groups and teleconferencing are now commonplace means of conducting training and exchanging information. Also increasingly common is the use of technology-based ...Read More
Technology-Enhanced Facilitation
. Back in the mid 1990’s when email listservs were the cutting edge technology and Netscape dominated the web browser market, I was convinced that these new tools would change how we learn both as individuals and as social networks. So I went back to school to pursue a Master’s ...Read More
Measuring Meeting Performance
. One of the challenges of trying to systematically improve meeting effectiveness is trying to measure how well you are doing. The typical way we gauge meeting effectiveness is by counting how many participants are either: a) nodding off, b) gripping a cup of coffee or c) answering emails on their ...Read More