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Group Works Pattern Language cards
Here’s a set of cards you can download for free, that can be used to help facilitate meetings, train facilitators, refresh your facilitation habits, etc. You an purchase a deck, but you can also download them for free and use … Continue reading
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Boring Meetings Suck
Well, I was a little sad to see this book’s title is so close to my seminar “Meetings Shouldn’t Suck”, it nonetheless looks pretty promising: http://www.boringmeetingssuck.com/ and has a blog with lots of ongoing content….
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How are my meetings? A meeting assessment tool
Hey folks, Based on the Consensus Basics training we conducted, here’s a self-assessment tool you can use to see how good of a foundation you have for the functionality of your meetings. As always, note that these principles are really … Continue reading
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Consensus Basics
Thanks to everyone who came out to the training we held in December. It was a great success. Here’s a quick “cheat-sheet” overview of some consensus basics, as a Word file that you can download (Consensus-Overview) or just read on … Continue reading
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Weighted Voting
This is useful when there are concerns about either A) having the ability to implement a decision or B) people expressing strong opinions without considering the real implications of implementing those opinions. People are asked to vote among a variety … Continue reading
Amoeba Discussion
This is a useful way to quickly gather information and conduct discussion on a topic while getting input from all participants. It also helps get input from people in a less verbal way and helps add energy to a meeting … Continue reading
Standing Line
This tool is really useful for getting people out of “talking head” mode and general increases energy in the room quickly by getting people to walk around. Also, it creates a really fast way to visually “read” what’s going on … Continue reading
Gradients of Agreement
This tool is useful for getting a sense of where people stand on difficult decisions and helping the group move along more quickly with a decision. Draw a line on the board with “Veto” at one end and “Endorse” at … Continue reading
Revolving Flipcharts
Each workgroup has a specific color marker they use (e.g labor uses blue, enviros use green) Each workgroup gets a long while to create their priorities or brainstorm. Then each workgroup rotates to the next workgroups’ flipchart, taking their … Continue reading
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Bridge Building
Group describes the desired future that a group is working toward (if larger than 12 break out and report back) Post desired future on R-hand of wall Current reality – now have groups record existing state of the group Post … Continue reading
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