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.
Looking Back to Move Forward: Future Search as a Meeting Arc
We have to come to terms with the past before we can agree on current realities. Future Search is a strategic planning and group facilitation process designed to help organizations and communities address complex issues and create a shared vision for the future.
Meetings that “Move”: Using Movement to Increase Productivity
Movement promotes higher brain function, better behavior and lower stress. Adding movement to meetings allows people to perform well under pressure, make better decisions and work better with others. Here are a few of our favorite energizers you can use to get your team or participants moving.
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.
10 Tips for Partnering with a Facilitator
Often the people we work with don’t have a clear sense of what we provide when it comes to facilitation, and every facilitator is a little different. Our goal as MeetingMakers is to take the stress of identifying the process to achieve your outcomes off your plate. Here are a few things to keep in mind so you can get the most from working with a professional facilitator.
How a Community-Driven Meeting Led to Results in Houston
An article published in June 2022 in The New York Times celebrates the city of Houston for doing “twice as well as the rest of the country at reducing homelessness over the previous decade,” according to a 2020 federal report. How did they do it? The answer is intentional and consistent collaboration, starting with whole-systems intervention.
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.
WEBINAR: Introduction to Facilitating with Visuals
Visuals are central to facilitating engaging meetings, but many facilitators and trainers lack a strong design muscle. Stop making boring, meaningless slide decks and start bringing visuals into your meetings in a fun, purposeful and creative way that will have a real impact on improving the outcomes of your meeting.
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.
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