Facilitator Tools
The One Stop Shopping Tool
Ever since I started facilitating 25 years ago, I’ve come to rely on scanning tools to help me begin well with a group. We all have some of these tools I am sure. They are called environmental scan, trend analysis, wave analysis, wall of wonder, journey wall, historical scan, lessons learned exercises and story telling. …
Top 12 Suite of Tools for the Competent Facilitator
In my 24+ years of running a facilitator business, I feel there are 12 top skills you require as a facilitator to meet the needs of your clients. When you develop these skills, you grow in your own ability to connect with people from all walks of life. Below I offer my brief thoughts of…
Space: The Final Frontier of Facilitation
Highlights from the International Association of Facilitator’s Conference Do you know what I’m talking about if I say I have a little ache in my heart because I’m missing being with my IAF friends? I returned home to Portland, Oregon in Northwestern USA from spending 5 days in Orlando, Florida (southeastern USA) being with many…
One Small Change = HUGE Improvement in Meeting Dynamics
You’re in a meeting. You have a lot of items to cover. You are in charge of the meeting. You ask a lot of questions like: Do you all agree with this? Is this acceptable to you? Do you like this idea? You like to be in control of what happens. People seem to be…
There is No Magic in Being a GREAT Facilitator – Stories to Inspire You
I have been hearing a lot lately about people starting out their own facilitation businesses. Those of us who have been facilitation business owners for many years know it is a profound journey that really invites you to look deeply into your own life. It is a privilege to meet and connect with anyone on…
Facilitation Saves The Day (AGAIN!) Five Steps to Easing Tension and Conflict in Groups
How does conflict show up in groups? I’d like to share three short stories about my own facilitated events that went wrong and then either turned out great, OK or failed miserably. These stories illustrate how conflict shows up differently in groups. Then we’ll share some tips, tools and a five step process to ease…
My Top Ten (Joys of Virtual Facilitation)
(Updated April 2020) In January of 2013, I naively set out to offer my first virtual facilitation training. How hard can it be? Lots seem to be doing it. What I did not realize is that many are offering teleseminars and webinars and these are NOT the same as virtual interactive trainings. You see, webinars…
What About Having Culturally Competent Meetings that Rock?
In April we started our first in a three part series of free webinars called “Meetings That Rock”. I realized that in the promotional video that I made some cultural competency mistakes. A colleague talked about this with me and it was embarrassing that after all my cultural competency training and quest to be a…
Why Brainstorming Often Fails
Are you making the right kind of “splash” with your brainstorming technique? We suspect you have seen poor brainstorming technique by people not trained. Typically here is how brainstorming goes: The meeting person says: “We have problem x. What can we do to solve it?” They write down as many ideas as they can get from…
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