A leadership retreat can be the single most productive day on your team’s calendar, or it can be a long drive to a nice room where everyone checks email between sessions. The difference is rarely the venue. It is almost always the agenda.Most poorly run retreats...
Leadership retreats have a reputation problem. Some of them change how a team works for years. Others consume two days of everyone’s calendar and leave people with a vague sense that something should probably change eventually. The difference rarely comes down...
Most leadership teams do not have a meeting problem. They have a facilitation problem. The right person in the room can turn a stalled strategy session into a decision in ninety minutes, and the wrong setup can stretch that same conversation across three follow-up...
Workshop facilitation is the act of providing unobtrusive, objective guidance to a group so that it can progress toward a goal together. That is how the Nielsen Norman Group defines it in Workshop Facilitation 101, and the wording matters more than it first appears....
Facilitation is the practice of designing and leading meetings and workshops in a way that helps a group of people achieve a specific goal. That definition sounds simple until you sit in the facilitator’s chair. One dominant voice, one vague agenda, or one...
A facilitation workshop can mean one of two things. It can be a working session where a facilitator guides a group toward a decision or a plan. It can also be a training event where people learn how to run those sessions themselves. Both matter, because the skills...
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