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Executive Coach Leaves Participants With Action-Oriented Takeaways

Tony Mayo

He is an outstanding workshop and group facilitator who leaves participants with action-oriented takeaways they can’t get anywhere else. —Hector Velez Chief Development Officer | Chief Sales Officer . Tony has an uncanny ability to leverage his vast experience in order to provide great value to his clients.

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10 Essential Facilitation Skills for Meeting Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Here are 10 essential skills required to facilitate a meeting, all of which can be learned and improved with practice: 1. Selecting topics that invite participation, i.e., a problem to be solved, is far more engaging that “informational” topics. However, ample times needs to be allocated to allow for group involvement.

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Open-Space Leadership: When Less is More

Let's Grow Leaders

I love using Open-Space Technology with a large group to generate ideas. Participants essentially create their own agenda and self-organize into groups to discuss topics that matter to them. Sometimes leadership is just about creating an open-space, and getting out-of-the-way. Although it’s useful to [.]

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Facilitation is Your Work, Use Your Judgment

Mike Cardus

This must be the work of program managers …your work is facilitation and should be focused on the facilitators you manage. Too often experiential program managers lose sight of their direct staff and focus on the participants in the program. 2007) Tips & tools: The Art of Experiential Group Facilitation.

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Don't Neglect Your Power to Bring People Together

Harvard Business Review

Added to the difficulty of organizing the meeting is the fear that key participants will refuse to attend. And the truth is that many managers are not skilled at group facilitation. So for those managers, like the one in our case, it''s easier to deal with everyone individually than try to tackle them as a group.

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How to Manage a Narcissist

Harvard Business Review

George, a senior executive of a large internet provider, was a participant in one of my leadership development programs. Although a very talented individual, he was seen as a nuisance within the group. It was quite clear to the other participants that George viewed most people as far below his standards.