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Leadership Development Program

How to Make Meetings Work

Facilitation

Effective Communication

What's a Facilitated Meeting?

  • Uses a designated person (or facilitator) to help manage the process the group uses to reach its desired outcomes

  • The facilitator acts as a neutral party who does not become involved in the content of the meeting

  • All meeting members, including the senior person, are free to act as contributing participants

  • Operates according to a set of agreed upon meeting rules

What Do Facilitator's Do?

  • Are neutral related to meeting content, act as process advocates to help the group to meet its goals

  • Act so as to enable the group to work more effectively

  • Attempt to provide a safe environment for full participation

  • Encourage collaboration and mutual understanding

  • Foster strong agreements and shared responsibility

  • Suggest process options if the group stalls

Facilitator Tools

  • Structured agenda

  • Ground rules

  • Role descriptions

  • Options for dealing with disruptive participants

  • Memory bank

  • Decisions and assignments list

How to Get Your Ideas to Spread

Books by Seth Godin.

Boring Meetings Suck

www.boringmeetingssuck.com 

Petz, J. (2011). Boring meetings suck: Get more out of your meetings, or get out of more meetings. Hoboken, N.J: Wiley. [Find it at your public library]

Effective Management

Public Speaking

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