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facilitate this! in print. Towards the end of last year we were pleased to accept an offer from the Editor at HR Director to put together some comments and advice on effective team building and how to get the best out of meetings. You can find the final the article in issue #86, out now, on [...]
Its that time of year again for me to look through a series of different lenses and see what emerges in front of my eyes, only today I am not facilitating a group, I am at the Opticians for my annual check! Instead of my regular reliable (although increasingly unreliable at close quarters!) set of lenses, I [...]
Registration for the International Association of Facilitators, North America Conference, being held from May 9th to 12th in Halifax, Nova Scotia is now open. A full programme of seminars and workshops to develop your skills and insight into facilitation is published at http://www.iafna2012.org/. Be the Change!
Even the most experienced of facilitators have fears from time to time when handling a group. What is your worst nightmare? How do you prepare for this? And what about the participants themselves, what do they fear the most? Often in a group situation we are asking them to face their fears which can be [...]
I was visiting a golf club yesterday and a friend mentioned they we going out to practice on the practice ground, which got me thinking, where do other facilitators go to practice and what do they focus on when they get there? The golfer can focus on the grip, the swing pattern, body positioning, club selection [...]
A conversation between two chatbots has been in the news this week and it went headlong into a course for a fall out! The reason? Poor listening has to be first on the cards, with interruptions and as a result compromised understanding and poorly formed responses. The next, interpretation, how one piece of information was used [...]
Whilst listening to some music last night, I was reminded how much of our lives we remember through music and that music reflects what our feelings sound like.
Albert Einstein said…”If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I [...]
Last night I was waiting at the airport as the carousel continued to circulate and my luggage never arrived, it left me wondering how often do we facilitate never knowing if people are waiting for something that never arrives? It may be a discussion they want to have, a point they wish to make, a [...]
When watching Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado about Nothing’ last night it struck me how complicated everything can become as a result of overhearing, overlooking, taking assumptions as truth and using one small piece of evidence to formulate a whole tragic story. As facilitators we spend much time working with groups for whom some of this ‘much [...]
Try this site for more information on planning and structuring decision making. Insights and tools this way… http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_00.htm
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