Posts Tagged ‘technology’
Facilitating Nonprofit Technology Planning
. 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 ...Read More
Facilitating Event Planning for a Distributed Team
. Recently I have been talking to several clients that are seeking facilitation services for the planning of events that are a month or two away and are looking for assistance in convening geographically diverse teams in planning the events. Having planned many regional and national conferences over my 17 plus ...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