Posts Tagged ‘facilitation’
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 Strategic Planning for Social Impact
. Over the last few months, I have posted a series of articles on strategic planning for nonprofit and social sector agencies. Not surprising, a number of potential client calls are from folks looking for facilitation and process support for strategic planning. Indeed in this anemic economy, many nonprofit agencies find ...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 a High Performing Board
. Recently, I have been working on several different projects that involve nonprofit board development issues ranging from staffing a board, to recruiting board members, and improving the effectiveness of boards. My recent work has led me to filter my experience through a review of the literature on the characteristics of ...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 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 a Nonprofit Board Orientation
. I recently helped out on a board member orientation workshop for a nonprofit agency and thought I would share some perspectives on nonprofit board development while the ideas are fairly fresh on my mind. Over the last few months I have been occasionally posting what has become an informal series ...Read More