2 Skills to Listen Like a Facilitator
A facilitator's job is to pull knowledge out of the people in the room, rather than pushing content. This means setting aside our tendencies to give advice or solve problems and simply listen. In this blog, we discuss how this is done using two simple techniques: paraphrasing and asking questions.
Meeting Co-lab: Meeting Tips for Participants with Tricia Conyers
How can you facilitate when you’re not the person leading meeting? Check out this webinar with Lauren Green (MeetingMakers) and Tricia Conyers (Island Inspiration Ltd.) for advice and skills you can use in your next experience as a meeting participant.
6 Tips to Un-Suck Your Meetings
We’ve all attended our share of meetings and trainings that suck. It can feel like a waste of time and energy. Despite what you might think, these sessions are not pointless; they just aren’t being planned well or maybe even planned at all. Planning a meeting that doesn’t suck is easy with just a few preparation steps and basic facilitation skills.
PODCAST: Do Your Meetings Suck? (Lauren Green on The Biz Dojo)
In this episode of The Biz Dojo, Seth Anderson, J.P. Gaston and Lauren Green explore some common issues with meetings, what can make them better, and how visual notetaking is a complete game-changer to creating connection between meeting goers and the content.
8 Models Every Facilitator Should Be Able to Draw Live
A model is a diagram that helps convey a key concept using strategically aligned words and images used in a meeting to encourage a specific mindset or prompt thinking in a new way. Here are eight essential models and how to draw them.
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