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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 ...
Do You Have the Soul of a Facilitator?
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. What does it take to be an excellent facilitator? Great facilitators know that it requires knowledge, ...
Be a Hack of a Facilitator!
Tips and strategies for new facilitators By Dorothy Purge Introduction Assuming that you have been appointed Facilitator for a one-day Meeting or a longer ...
Are Your Meetings Masterful? Take this Quiz to Find Out
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Those short quizzes you find in magazines are almost always a bit fun. “How good of ...
Are You a Masterful Meeting Participant?
By Michael Wilkinson Managing Director, Leadership Strategies Are you a masterful meeting participant? In my recently released book, The Secrets to Masterful Meetings, I offer ...
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