Facilitating During Deep Conflict

Do you ever facilitate meetings where there is strong conflict between participants? When deep conflict seems likely, teach participants the LECSR conversational technique.

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How to Stop Zoom Snooze Fests

Are the people in your online meetings checking email or watching cat videos instead of paying attention? Here are three Zoom advanced capabilities that you can use to increase participation, plus a bonus that works on any platform.

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Step Up, Step Back

“Step up, step back” is a way that a facilitator can give give a group long-term ownership of group dynamics.

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Forward Progress

Facilitators use the consolidation technique to intentionally build up a series of small agreements, like a bricklayer laying a sturdy foundation brick by brick and layer by layer. 

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Painful Meetings

We’ve all suffered through bad meetings. We all know the standard list of things to do to make them better. And yet they persist, or perhaps have gotten worse with […]

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Why Can’t We Learn?

Dr. Katrina Foxton at MicroBiomics – a rising company in the biotech sector – knows her team is highly talented. Yet on project after project she  sees them fall into the same pitfalls.  Katrina wonders, “Why can’t they learn?” Here’s a technique I use to make team learning fast and easy.

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Psychological Safety

Here are three simple ways leaders can help teams increase psychological safety in a work environment or facilitation.

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