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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 Presentation

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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

Discovery1515

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Charting your team

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People Things

Creativity

Discovery1515

1515

15

1515

15

Charting your team

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People Things

Creativity

Discovery1515

1515

15

1515

15

Charting your team

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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