Skillful Facilitation & Coaching
Facilitating Strategic Conversations for Collaborative Problem Solving
If you’re a mid-career professional trying to land a new job or to move up the career ladder, what are your metrics of success? Is “landing that job” the only metric? What other metrics might there be? What can you learn from the process aside from landing the job? I’ve been coaching a few mid-career... Continue Reading →
I was coaching a new client this week - a director looking at a career move. She expressed excitement over a job posting which she shared with a colleague, who then asked her “Why would you want that job?” That response sharply dampened her interest, so she didn’t apply. When I asked her how she... Continue Reading →
Everyone talks about active listening, but it seems so hard for people to improve their listening skills. We can't just tell them, "You need to speak less and listen more. " That doesn't usually work. We have to find out what makes it difficult for people to hold their tongue and focus on other people's... Continue Reading →
Have you ever been in a meeting where an important decision was being made, when you had something important to contribute - and you considered speaking up, but hesitated – and then decided not to say anything? And kicked yourself afterwards for not speaking up? Chances are we’ve all been in meetings where we didn’t... Continue Reading →
What do you get when you bring together a group of coaches/consultants and 8 executive directors?? Here’s what the directors reported: Most remarkable 5-person therapy! I got a number of great small Aha!s which confirmed the good things that we're doing, as well as identifying areas for my personal growth. Clarity - what I came... Continue Reading →
One of my missions in life (smile) is to save groups from bad facilitation, to enable them to break through Groupthink, and to be able to ask process questions themselves. Recently, Rick Lent raised a great question about the challenges we face in facilitating meetings, and someone mentioned "setting round rules". I think it's not... Continue Reading →
