The AEIOU Model for Providing Feedback Providing feedback should occur regularly in groups or between two people, at any level of your team, group or organisation. It can be used between manager and team member; team member to team member; or manager to manager. Focusing on collaboration or a Win/Win outcome, the key to providing [Read more…]
Facilitation Master Class
Aim of the Facilitation Master Class The Facilitation Master Class will maintain the desire of your staff to further develop their facilitation skills and deepen their understanding of the role of a facilitator. Workshop outcomes By completing the Facilitation Master Class program, participants will be able to: Experience scenario submersion to understand and assess new [Read more…]
Facilitation Essentials
Aim Facilitation Essentials will provide participants with a clear understanding of how people behave in group situations. Importantly, it will equip them with core tools and processes to manage and work with groups of people. Workshop outcomes By completing the Facilitation Essentials program, participants will be able to: Understand the role of a facilitator Build [Read more…]
How to Gain Agreement in Groups
A challenge faced by many facilitators is to gain agreement in groups. We recently explored some options to use to gain agreement in groups. Often, groups get stuck on what they disagree on and can’t move forward (e.g. in a strategic planning workshop). A strategy that was worked for me is to use an adapted [Read more…]
How to maintain the energy when facilitating a group
The importance of maintaining energy when facilitating a group ‘What are your biggest challenges in facilitating a group?’ This was the focus of an impromptu session from a facilitation training workshop. A key challenge raised by participants was, “How do we maintain the energy of a group when facilitating – without overwhelming participants?” Here are [Read more…]
Get Facilitation Training to Work
Making Facilitation Training Become a Culture of Facilitation in Your Workplace Margo O’Byrne and I provide our tips around the leverage points to formalise facilitation training in your workplace. These are based on the award-winning facilitation training programs we designed and delivered for Fremantle Ports. In this episode of Facilitation TV, find out about: Getting [Read more…]
A New Facilitation Tool for your Toolkit
Group Map – a new Facilitation Tool I’ve updated my facilitation tool kit and am considering throwing away the flipchart…almost In two recent workshops I’ve utilised the online facilitation tool, Group Map, to capture outputs. It’s a great alternative to the omni-present flipchart paper that can often bring groans of ‘you’re making us work’ when [Read more…]
Simple Processes for Change Management
Change management can often seem like an endless and highly complex process. Where does it start? When does it stop? How do I do it? Having a structured approach to assist groups to deal with change is ‘your friend in a time of need.’ I asked Bevan Bessen and Margo O’Byrne of the Facilitators Inner [Read more…]
How to get Consensus when you have Conflict in a Meeting
Picture this…you’ve got two distinct groups in a meeting and the discussion is going off the rails. You can almost feel the physical ‘jarring’ as people take their own positions and stop listening. You can feel the anxiety growing and your pulse is thumping… How do you help the group work through their issues? In [Read more…]
How to Run a Project Planning Session When You’ve Never Done it Before
Supervisors, Team Leaders and Project Managers… this one’s for you! Picture this… You have just been asked to run a project planning session. You have never facilitated before and don’t know where to start.. People working in teams get dropped into situations like this all the time. And they go either one of three ways [Read more…]