Don’t Run! Learn How to Manage Group Conflict
A meeting without conflict is a boring meeting, and we’ve seen very little value derived from predictable and unexciting meetings and workshops. Internal and external conflict reflect emotions that,...
View Article12 Critical Facilitation Do’s and Don’ts During Meetings, Sessions, and...
Our students have clamored for a quick-reference checklist of the most important facilitation Do’s and Don’ts. In response, we bring you the brief, yet powerful, list below (alpha-sorted by the...
View ArticleScope Creep Kills Projects – It Begins in Poorly Facilitated Meetings
Have you ever heard someone say in a meeting “I don’t know why we’re doing this project in the first place?” Odds are, the meeting is being held to advance the project, not re-validate it. The person...
View ArticleScrumMaster Facilitator Techniques Improve Meetings
Agile’s ScrumMaster facilitator techniques ensure that business communities get quick and responsive results. Constant feedback helps teams prioritize and make adjustments. ScrumMasters constantly...
View ArticleThe New Science of Teamwork: Is it new or just MG RUSH Professional...
The lead article in the March-April (2017) Harvard Business Review reads like a promotion for our MG RUSH Professional Leadership, Facilitation, and Methodology training. The principal recommendations...
View ArticleGround Rules for Optimal Group Behavior in Meetings and Workshops
Use ground rules to help manage individual and group behavior during meetings and workshops. You can lead meetings and discussions without ground rules, but did you ever leave an unstructured meeting...
View ArticleAddicted to Being Right: 4 Participant Responses to Avoid Being Wrong
Most people associate shame or loss of power with being wrong. Ever feel yourself getting defensive?When your meeting participants turn defensive, especially when they feel they are losing ground,...
View ArticleFour Reasons You Will Dial Up Decision Quality with More Diverse Teams
Decision quality increases with the quantity of available options. The FAST technique has long promoted the concept of teams to improve decision quality. Most understand that properly facilitated...
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Trending Towards Evidence-based Management for Decision-making
The Economist reports that “Some apartment building owners now require tenants provide a DNA sample of their dog so that unscooped poop can be penalized.” Alex Pentland of the Massachusetts Institute...
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5 Tips on How to Facilitate Board Meetings (or Committees)
In 1876 General Henry M. Robert wrote the rules of American Congress (Parliamentary Procedure) for all citizens and societal groups with his publication of Pocket Manual of Rules of Order. Nearly 150...
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How to Facilitate and Make Your Staff Meeting More Effective
Your regularly scheduled staff meeting may not be an event that your staff anticipates. In fact, some employees might prefer having a root canal. At least with a root canal, pain medication is...
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How to Recognize Diversity, Ensuring Meeting Inclusiveness
The primary responsibility of a facilitator is to protect the participants. Furthermore, the facilitator helps drive the group toward its desired deliverable. Since the deliverable is built to serve...
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Use the Fist of Five to Test for Consensus on Contextual Issues
The Fist of Five approach combines the speed of thumbs up/ down and displays the degrees of agreement that can support more complicated decision spectrums. Using this tool, people vote using their...
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Five Meeting Problems and What You Should Do About Them
Ever develop that sense of deja vu about not getting anywhere during a meeting? Meeting problems are indicative of resistance that is generated during a meeting. Resistance can be prevented and...
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“The distribution of collaborative work is often extremely lopsided . . .”
Success in complex organizations depends on increasingly on collaborative work. No one person has all the answers. Yet collaboration and teamwork are not heavily promoted. The post “The distribution...
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How to Manage a Problem Person During Meetings
A problem person is a meeting distraction and their message is ineffective because of some characteristic that gets in the way of clearly communicating. “Politikos” — Nature of the Problem Person The...
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How You Can Convert Meeting Conflict into More Robust Decision-making
There is no instructional class in the world that will teach you how to facilitate a resolution to all meeting conflict. Sometimes, people or parties refuse to agree simply because they do not like...
View ArticleThe Most Effective Facilitator Avoids Using the Word “I”
As an effective facilitator, stop using the word “I”. For some, it is quite natural to substitute the plural “we” or “us”. For others, it remains a significant challenge. If you find it is a...
View ArticleHow to Facilitate a Conference with Multiple Presentations
During a recent four-day conference, we facilitated more than 20 speakers and multiple presentations with very distinctive topics ranging from embracing social responsibility to utilizing Google®...
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Influence of Available Time Upon Methods or Styles of Group Decision Making
We have applied modern research about decision quality with material found in Vroom and Yetton’s robust volume, “Leadership and Decision-Making”. Here they identify eight styles of decision-making....
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