Meeting facilitation

Five ways to improve your facilitation skills

Here are five easy ways to improve your facilitations skills in May. Using facilitation in your role? Want to vastly improve your facilitation skills in just three days? Here’s the chance to immerse yourself in three days of practical skill development, connecting with people who ‘get what you do’, enabling […]

Four tips for planning workshop sessions

Here are my ‘go to’ essentials for planning workshop sessions Planning workshop sessions can be challenging. Having core elements to use, along with a tried and tested template will get you off and running. 1. Be very clear of the outcomes that need to be achieved Before the workshop, when […]

Ideas for icebreakers in meetings or workshops

If you need ideas for icebreakers for your next meeting or workshop, you’re in the right place. This compilation of ideas for icebreakers has been put together in partnership with my long-time colleagues Will Bessen and Margo O’Byrne. Activities for new groups Quick disclosure Ask participants for either a: Description […]

Facilitating meetings with colleagues – managing challenges

Facilitating meetings with colleagues should ideally be a productive and straight-forward task. When this task involves people, challenges can arise… In talking with other facilitators and clients, several are finding common challenges emerging in their workplace: There are often polarised views around the table, with people feeling a bit threatened […]

Planning effective meetings

Here’s a short guide to help you in planning effective meetings in your workplace. Facilitator and author Sam Kaner believes that there are three building blocks for planning effective meetings. Topics Outcomes Processes In Kaner’s model each topic is viewed as a separate segment of a meeting. The desired outcome […]

Participant introductions in workshops

If you need some help with participant introductions in workshops, here are some practical tips to get you started. We’ll also cover some ideas on ground rules to maintain full participation in your workshop. Before you start participant introductions in workshops The first session of a workshop is all about […]

The future of meetings

I’m 500% looking forward to this International Association of Facilitators (IAF) Oceania workshop “Exploring the Future of Meetings” on 22 September from 5-6pm AEST. Join the moderator Allison Hornery and the dynamic panel of Vanessa Moss, Elizabeth Tasker and Viveka Weiley 🦉 as they take a fun and rapid fire […]

How to better understand participant needs

A quick read for you today… Me and my bestie, Cynthia Mahoney have just finished our inaugural, first ever, premiere program of ‘Facilitate Standout Online Success’. It generated some fantastic sharing of ideas, tips and processes to use with groups online. (BTW – Many of the principles can be used […]

How to maintain the energy when facilitating a group online

The importance of maintaining energy when facilitating a group online ‘What are your biggest challenges in facilitating a group online?’ This was the focus of an impromptu session from a facilitation training workshop I held back in 2017. A key challenge raised by participants was, “How do we maintain the […]

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