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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 an international team of 20 ...

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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 weren’t expecting to run the meeting ...

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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 of sincere, positive reinforcement will ...

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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 are many strategies for keeping ...

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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 sessions. Over that time, there ...

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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, skills and experience.  However, they ...

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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 Retreat, you are faced with ...

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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 a friend are you?” “How ...