Presenters wanting to learn to respond to ruckus-causing participants discover an industry dedicated to techniques, programs and articles, but especially labels. Experts in the “difficult people” business love labels. Here are several labels for different kinds of “difficult people”: The Know-It-All The Show-Off The Rambler But Guess What? We Are All “Difficult People” To be …
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Articles to Boost Your Facilitation Skills
“Difficult People” Versus Difficult Dynamics
Using the “Six Limbs” of Facilitation to Make Meetings Work
Understanding the “six limbs” of facilitation will help you juggle meeting dynamics better. What Are the “Six Limbs?” A facilitator needs to keep six avenues of awareness open to facilitate effectively. Awareness of the “six limbs” is a kind of hyper-awareness that we don’t tend to need during other parts of our lives. This hyper-awareness …
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How to Keep Meetings Active and Productive
As a facilitator, you are responsible for achieving the meeting outcomes, maintaining full participation, and ending on time. How do you maintain meaningful, focused conversation throughout? These five tips will help. 1. PlaybackReiterate what a participant has said as closely as you can. Try not to infer meaning.“Greg, I’m hearing you say that you want …
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The Most Important Tool for Online Meetings
Do you wish you ran better meetings? By using an outcome based agenda, you will experience an immediate, extraordinary improvement.
3 Tips to Tame Unruly Meetings, Part Two
by Guila Muir info@guilamuir.com The Prickly Role of Meeting Guidelines
RULES? Who Needs RULES? Part One
by Guila Muir info@guilamuir.com The prickly role of Meeting Guidelines
The “Tuned-In” Facilitator: When and How to Intervene
Picture this: You’re running a regular, non-eventful meeting when… Scenario One: Suddenly, as if some invisible button has been pushed, unexpected emotion erupts from the group. Or…Scenario Two: You suddenly sense a strong feeling of resistance from the group. No one says anything about it, but you can’t shake your own awareness of “push-back.” Or…Scenario …
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Who Cares About Facilitation Skills?
by Guila Muir info@guilamuir.com Why Facilitation Skills are Important: A different kind of power
How to Prevent Meetings from Hell
With technology forcing constant change in our workplaces, the true “hot commodity” over the next twenty years will be meaningful, face to face contact. However, that contact must be productive. Increasing facilitation skills – of all employees – is key. Over 80% of my training participants tell me that the number of meetings they must …
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