. 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
. 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
. 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
. In this series on strategic planning, my goal is to outline principles that inform the development of a strategic planning process. The first principle is that agencies need to connect the planning process and their organizational culture. The second principle is that strategic planning must be tied to a clear ...Read More