group facilitation 101: how to facilitate effective groups and meetings
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Group Facilitation 101: How to Facilitate Effective Groups and Meetings. Session Objectives. Learn Motivational Preferences and implications Characteristics of effective team leaders Best practices Acquire resources. Cohort Sessions. Charting your team. 15. 15. 15. 15. 15. 15. 15. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Group Facilitation 101: How to Facilitate Effective Groups and Meetings
Session Objectives
• Learn Motivational Preferences and implications
• Characteristics of effective team leaders
• Best practices• Acquire resources
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
People Things
Creativity
Discovery1515
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Charting your team
People Things
Creativity
Discovery1515
1515
15
1515
15
Charting your team
People Things
Creativity
Discovery1515
1515
15
1515
15
Charting your team
Role of Facilitator
To help groups be their most productive
Styles of facilitating:- Limited role- Active role
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
“Facilitators must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead
to motivate them.”
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
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
Consensus – What it is not . . .
• Voting• Trading Off• Steamrolling• Withholding• Easy or fast• Perfect Agreement
Consensus – what it is not . . .
Consensus – What it is . . .
A decision in which everyone participates and with which everyone
can live and publicly support
The Five Dysfunctions of a TeamPatrick Lencioni
• Absence of trust• Fear of conflict• Lack of commitment• Avoidance of accountability• Inattention to results