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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 ...
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 ...
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