Articles
One-on-One Consensus Building
How to ask the questions to identify different one-on-one conflicts. By Michael Wilkinson, CMF CEO & Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. I had a ...
What’s the Best Way to Start a Meeting? It Might Not be What You Think…
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF CEO & Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. (Adapted from the Secrets of Facilitation) What is the most important thing to ...
Alignment – the Missing Piece of Your Plan
Jeff Lebow Pull Thinking The term “Alignment” is commonly used in business – especially in strategic planning. However, it is also an elusive concept not ...
Communication Styles…Can You Crack the Code?
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF; Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. If you’ve ever had a conversation…with anyone, you know that people communicate differently and have different ...
Using Facilitation to Beat the Economic Trend
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. In talking with facilitators across the country, we are hearing significant concern about how the economic ...
A Team Building Lesson
by Michael Wilkinson, CMF Over a decade ago, before learning many of the techniques in The Effective Facilitator, I was called in to facilitate ...
Surprise! You’re Facilitating THIS Meeting!
By Michael Wilkinson Have you ever had to open a meeting on the fly? You know what I mean – those times when you ...
Starting Meetings Masterfully – Part I
By Michael Wilkinson, Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Adapted from The Secrets to Masterful Meetings What is the most important thing to do in starting ...
Risky Business
As many of you know, at Leadership Strategies we believe in a whole lot of clapping during our facilitated sessions! Successful facilitators know that lots ...
Keeping Meetings Focused: The Checkpoint
Adapted from The Secrets of Facilitation By Michael Wilkinson, CMF, Managing Director-Leadership Strategies Author, The Secrets of Facilitation and The Secrets to Masterful Meetings There ...
Rate Your Sessions Level of Difficulty BEFORE It Starts…Here’s Why!
By Michael Wilkinson Managing Director, Leadership Strategies Over my twenty-plus years as a facilitator, I estimate that I have personally led well over 500 facilitated ...
Facilitating an Action Plan Review Session
By Michael Wilkinson, Certified Master Facilitator, Managing Director ofLeadership Strategies – The Facilitation Company, and author of The Secrets of Facilitation and The Secrets of ...
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