. This post is one in an occasional series to help guide those looking to hire a facilitator. Other posts in this series can be found here. If your questions about facilitation are not answered, please don’t hesitate to email me and I will be glad to help! . On more that once ...Read More
. 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
. 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 ...Read More
. There is an old truism that states, “If the only tool that you have in your toolbox is a hammer then everything starts looking like a nail.” In my experience that least productive meetings are those that apply a hammer to every group process. The typical hammer process is linear. ...Read More