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Build Trust with Operating Principles
By Kathleen A. Paris, Ph.D. Trust is an essential ingredient for a successful workplace. Employees perform at their peak when they have confidence in ...
Action Plan Review
Demonstrating the Value of a Professional Facilitator By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. “I don’t understand it. If all we are doing ...
Avoiding Going with the Vocal Minority
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. It’s painful to see. But it happens so often, there ought to be a law ...
Do Great Trainers Make Great Meeting Facilitators?
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Consider this dilemma. You are the head of the Human Resources Department for your organization. You ...
Facilitation in the Classroom!
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. As a professional facilitator, I often find myself in day-to-day situations in which I conclude, “Facilitation ...
Five-Finger Consensus
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Organizations across the world have been learning that facilitated group sessions can be quite effective at ...
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 ...
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