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...

Facilitation is an essential skill for technical professionals working in group environments. Maintenance and reliability education does...

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

A common question is whether the Board of Directors should approve the Asset Management Policy. The short answer is yes. The longer...

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...

The foundations of systems thinking and facilitation apply to business cases because the analysis requires a group to establish the...

The foundations of systems thinking and facilitation apply to capital programs because the analysis requires a group to establish the...

This article discusses five ways to effectively facilitate block diagrams by conducting pre-session exchanges, asking powerful questions,...

This article discusses five ways to effectively facilitate tree diagrams by conducting pre-session exchanges, asking powerful questions,...

This article discusses five ways to facilitate failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) more effectively by conducting pre-session...

This article discusses five ways to facilitate root cause analysis (RCA) more effectively through conducting pre-session exchanges,...

We had met at the same place, at the same time, and in the same format every month for the past six months. The team still had eight...

I knew not to ask the question. I was almost certain I had heard the exchange correctly. I asked anyway, "Jim, I am not sure I understood...

The international Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) is a regular forum for the full-day version of the Communicating to...

Think about the three best-facilitated sessions you have ever attended. I will bet the facilitator used some type of activity that you...

I knew it was going to be a long week when my co-facilitator asked the group, “So, what happens when a submersible pump fails.” Their...

JD Solomon becomes a regular contributor for Accendo Reliability in mid-January. Solomon’s articles will be part of a new subject matter...

"I really liked the pre-workshop survey," responded an executive team member. "It enabled us to have a fast start and it helped everyone...