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Built for PMs who run multiple sessions a month and need results every time.
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Keep remote and in-room participants equally engaged. Half-day, high impact.
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Reviewing Process Redesigns – A Lesson from the Field
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. I recently had the pleasure of working with a local affiliate of a leading non-profit ...
Rotating Flipchart Review
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Facilitators often use breakout groups to increase involvement and get more done in a short amount ...
Selling Facilitation: The Client Meeting
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Over the past decade, we believe we have learned some valuable principles about how to effectively ...
Facilitation Excellence: The Seven Separators
What separates top facilitators from average ones? Michael Wilkinson, Leadership Strategies, Inc. In times past, it was often said that good trainers do not necessarily ...
Strategies for Keeping Meetings Focused: The Checkpoint
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Adapted from The Secrets of Facilitation There are many strategies for keeping meetings focused. One of ...
Target Characteristics For Facilitator Candidates
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. “Now that we have contracted with your firm to do facilitation training, how do we go ...
The 10 Principles of SMART Facilitation (TM)– An Overview
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. (Adapted from The Secrets of Facilitation) In my first book, The Secrets of Facilitation, I described ...
The Five Ps of Preparation
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. As part of our work with a large urban public school system, we were asked to ...
The Nearly Dysfunctional Executive Session
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Adapted from The Secrets of Facilitation The CEO of one of the major computer mainframe manufacturers ...
The Power of the Pen
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. (Adapted from The Secrets of Facilitation) A Case Study A member of our team was serving ...
The Secrets to Guerilla Meeting Facilitation
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. There will be times when a meeting is not going well, but the meeting leader is ...
The Seven Separators of Great Facilitation Workshop Program
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. What is it that separates great facilitators from good ones? Sure, every facilitator needs to know ...
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