Powerful questions are at the core of Facilitating with FINESSE. A facilitated session is a structured meeting in which the meeting...

What are our top-ranked facilitation articles? We went heavy on facilitation tips in 2023. Most of our top posts (at least how we measure...

What's hot in our world of facilitation and collaboration in 2023? The insights on our website provide a good snapshot. Read a few of...

Not all work is best suited for teams. The next time your group work is failing, forget about developing an intervention. Ask yourself...

Strategic plans bring challenges for effective collaboration. The single biggest disruptor is participants staking out positions for...

SessionLab recently released the outcome of the first comprehensive survey on the practice of facilitation, the State of Facilitation...

People get promoted, change jobs, move, or change teams in other ways. When this happens, new members often join a team, and these...

Fist to five is a simple and effective technique for improving team dynamics and gauging consensus. In this simple method, participants...

Facilitating with FINESSE: A Guide to Successful Business Solutions is a practitioner's guide for ten common applications that...

Young professionals bring the knowledge and insights needed for any organization to succeed. By 2025, half of the global workforce will...

Facilitating large groups can be intimidating. As always, successful facilitation starts with doing the basics well. Special attention in...

Baseball coaches and facilitators often share the common problem of developing an agenda. And if one meaning of facilitation is to make...

I was recently wandering around the lobby at Grand Strand Medical Center when I suddenly ran into an oversized bulletin board. I expected...

After a guest lecture at a major US university, I recently had a follow-up conversation with a graduate student. The discussion centered...

The Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) business leader was frustrated. Three years ago, the organization moved to a new...

Facilitating public workshops and comment sessions are typically conducted by public-sector organizations. These sessions are intended to...

Facilitators seldom have the opportunity to use four formats with the same board of directors for four consecutive years. Blame it on...

The stakes are high. The problem is difficult. We search for the facilitation approach that rises to the level of the problem. Not so...

Greg Padgett and I were chatting four years ago, just before the start of the Beaufort-Jasper Water and Sewer Authority annual board...

Jeff Lineberger and Charles Wingard provided some great insights on all types of facilitation. I sat down with Jeff a few months ago to...