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Facilitation is Your Work, Use Your Judgment

Mike Cardus

Work is not a routinized process or activity that you have done 1000s of times…if that’s work, then YOU ARE NOT adding value. Is work Facilitation, is facilitation work? Reading the definition of work from Eliot Jaques it sounds like a great re-source for facilitation. Stanchfield 2007). Determine current skills?

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Don't Neglect Your Power to Bring People Together

Harvard Business Review

To explain, let me share a quick example, in two acts: In Act One, the manager of a corporate engineering group was tasked with reducing the cost of common materials used by a number of different product teams. Added to the difficulty of organizing the meeting is the fear that key participants will refuse to attend.