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Group Facilitation 101: How to Facilitate Effective Groups and Meetings

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Session Objectives

• Learn Motivational Preferences and implications

• Characteristics of effective team leaders

• Best practices• Acquire resources

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Cohort Sessions

What are you going to do about it?

Ideas/Insights Challenges Supports needed

What don’t you know?

New learning Sharing Reacting/interacting

What do you know?

Best practice sharing Networking

What did you hear?

Debrief React

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People Things

Creativity

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Charting your team

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People Things

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Role of Facilitator

To help groups be their most productive

Styles of facilitating:- Limited role- Active role

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Active Facilitator Role

• Neutral servant to the group- Unbiased role- No interest in what the decision

is, but insures that a decision is made

• Process advocate – Makes sure everyone understands and agrees on process

• Progress advocate – Helps group to move towards its objective/s

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“Facilitators must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead

to motivate them.”

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How to Run an Effective Meeting

• Begin with team building• Establish goals, objectives, and

outcomes• Create and distribute agenda• Establish ground rules• Begin and end on time

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How to Run an Effective Meeting

• Identify action items and clearly articulate responsibilities and deadlines

• Use/Overuse chart paper• Utilize brainstorming• Engage all group members

- Build trust- Round robin – right to pass- Thumbs up/down/across- Time for dialogue

• Move toward consensus

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Consensus – What it is not . . .

• Voting• Trading Off• Steamrolling• Withholding• Easy or fast• Perfect Agreement

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Consensus – what it is not . . .

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Consensus – What it is . . .

A decision in which everyone participates and with which everyone

can live and publicly support

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The Five Dysfunctions of a TeamPatrick Lencioni

• Absence of trust• Fear of conflict• Lack of commitment• Avoidance of accountability• Inattention to results


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