For the last couple of decades, technology has been advancing at a breakneck speed, with each generation of technology continuing to reinvent, if not make obsolete, the previous generation. At the personal level we now enjoy expanded communications, near real time sharing of our lives though social media, and digital tools that allow us to [...]
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 believe is the ability to connect people, technology, and process in ways that create performance improvement. It is my belief that the traditional view of [...]
. 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 the lack of process [...]
. 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 (PSDA) model. While the [...]
. 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 process development. When a [...]
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