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Gifts and Hooks
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. If you facilitate cross-functional teams within a large organization or community task forces assembled to address ...
How Difficult Is Your Upcoming Session?
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. At Leadership Strategies, our client relationship managers work hard to match facilitators with the specific needs ...
If I Knew Then What I Know Now: I was in over My Head
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Over my twenty-plus years as a facilitator, I estimate that I have personally led well over ...
If I Only Knew Then What I Know Now: The Dysfunctional CEO
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. While a member of one of the national consulting firms (and before learning any of the ...
If You Design Training…
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Every so often you learn something that permanently transforms the way you think about how you ...
Knowing What to Record
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. The documentation from a facilitated session serves as the official record of the results of the ...
Leadership Through Facilitation The Fundamental Secret
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. It’s not just luck that helps professional facilitators be successful. Professional facilitators know a powerful secret ...
Lessons From Congress – A Team of Teams?
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Have you been as concerned as I have about the way Congress seems to operate? Do ...
Making Conferences Engaging!
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Conferences can often be unengaging, and sometimes downright boring, as speaker after speaker talks about their ...
Managing Dysfunction – Part I
The General Formula and The Topic Jumper By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. What if, in the middle of the meeting, ...
Managing Dysfunction: What do you do when a participant attacks the process?
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Adapted from The Secrets of Facilitation “Your agenda doesn’t make any sense at all. We don’t ...
Opening on the Fly
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Adapted from The Secrets of Facilitation Have you ever had to open a meeting “on the ...
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