#facilitation — Public Fediverse posts
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Here's a facilitation tip to improve breakout gallery walks — simply add this small step before they start.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/tip-2/2023/01/improve-breakout-gallery-walks
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Here's a facilitation tip to improve breakout gallery walks — simply add this small step before they start.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/tip-2/2023/01/improve-breakout-gallery-walks
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Here's a facilitation tip to improve breakout gallery walks — simply add this small step before they start.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/tip-2/2023/01/improve-breakout-gallery-walks
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Here's a facilitation tip to improve breakout gallery walks — simply add this small step before they start.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/tip-2/2023/01/improve-breakout-gallery-walks
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Here's a facilitation tip to improve breakout gallery walks — simply add this small step before they start.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/tip-2/2023/01/improve-breakout-gallery-walks
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Satisfying wants and needs at meetings is what I do. But there's a subtle interplay between wants and needs at my conferences that isn't obvious.
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Satisfying wants and needs at meetings is what I do. But there's a subtle interplay between wants and needs at my conferences that isn't obvious.
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Satisfying wants and needs at meetings is what I do. But there's a subtle interplay between wants and needs at my conferences that isn't obvious.
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Satisfying wants and needs at meetings is what I do. But there's a subtle interplay between wants and needs at my conferences that isn't obvious.
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Satisfying wants and needs at meetings is what I do. But there's a subtle interplay between wants and needs at my conferences that isn't obvious.
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Indaba — The logjam-breaking technique and simple consensus process that saved international climate change conferences.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/facilitating-change/2016/01/indaba
#facilitation #GroupWork #ClimateConference #Paris #Accords #GroupProcess #indaba
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Indaba — The logjam-breaking technique and simple consensus process that saved international climate change conferences.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/facilitating-change/2016/01/indaba
#facilitation #GroupWork #ClimateConference #Paris #Accords #GroupProcess #indaba
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Indaba — The logjam-breaking technique and simple consensus process that saved international climate change conferences.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/facilitating-change/2016/01/indaba
#facilitation #GroupWork #ClimateConference #Paris #Accords #GroupProcess #indaba
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Indaba — The logjam-breaking technique and simple consensus process that saved international climate change conferences.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/facilitating-change/2016/01/indaba
#facilitation #GroupWork #ClimateConference #Paris #Accords #GroupProcess #indaba
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Indaba — The logjam-breaking technique and simple consensus process that saved international climate change conferences.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/facilitating-change/2016/01/indaba
#facilitation #GroupWork #ClimateConference #Paris #Accords #GroupProcess #indaba
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Here's a magical question to ask when someone says 'I don't know'. Why does it (sometimes) work? I don't know!
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Here's a magical question to ask when someone says 'I don't know'. Why does it (sometimes) work? I don't know!
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Here's a magical question to ask when someone says 'I don't know'. Why does it (sometimes) work? I don't know!
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Here's a magical question to ask when someone says 'I don't know'. Why does it (sometimes) work? I don't know!
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Here's a magical question to ask when someone says 'I don't know'. Why does it (sometimes) work? I don't know!
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An 83-year-old man shares powerful learning from a workshop. I hope I can stay as open to change for the rest of my life.
#facilitation #story #FacilitatingChange #OpenToChange #workshop
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An 83-year-old man shares powerful learning from a workshop. I hope I can stay as open to change for the rest of my life.
#facilitation #story #FacilitatingChange #OpenToChange #workshop
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An 83-year-old man shares powerful learning from a workshop. I hope I can stay as open to change for the rest of my life.
#facilitation #story #FacilitatingChange #OpenToChange #workshop
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An 83-year-old man shares powerful learning from a workshop. I hope I can stay as open to change for the rest of my life.
#facilitation #story #FacilitatingChange #OpenToChange #workshop
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An 83-year-old man shares powerful learning from a workshop. I hope I can stay as open to change for the rest of my life.
#facilitation #story #FacilitatingChange #OpenToChange #workshop
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This video of a Personal Introspective illustrates why I love conference facilitation and design
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2019/04/love-meeting-facilitation-design
#meetings #love #EventDesign #facilitation #video #connection #learning #eventprofs
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This video of a Personal Introspective illustrates why I love conference facilitation and design
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2019/04/love-meeting-facilitation-design
#meetings #love #EventDesign #facilitation #video #connection #learning #eventprofs
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This video of a Personal Introspective illustrates why I love conference facilitation and design
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2019/04/love-meeting-facilitation-design
#meetings #love #EventDesign #facilitation #video #connection #learning #eventprofs
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This video of a Personal Introspective illustrates why I love conference facilitation and design
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2019/04/love-meeting-facilitation-design
#meetings #love #EventDesign #facilitation #video #connection #learning #eventprofs
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This video of a Personal Introspective illustrates why I love conference facilitation and design
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2019/04/love-meeting-facilitation-design
#meetings #love #EventDesign #facilitation #video #connection #learning #eventprofs
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Organisational Dysfunction of the Day
Divided for efficiency
Context: The workshop has twenty people and a full agenda. The facilitator divides the room into four groups of five, each working a different question in parallel. After ninety minutes, one person from each group presents a summary. The room acknowledges the outputs. A synthesis document appears a week later. Most people cannot clearly recall what they agreed to, or why — only that it was their group's table, not the others'.
OST explains: The reasoning behind the split is familiar: smaller groups work faster, everyone gets air time, parallel processing covers more ground. What it misses is that shared understanding cannot be transferred by a summary. It is something the group builds together, in real time, by working through difference. A summary tells you what another group concluded. It does not tell you the reasoning behind it, or the alternatives that were set aside. The integration cost is the whole conversation the groups never had. The Search Conference avoids this. The group works as a whole on the tasks that matter. Where subgroups are used at all, it is for two specific structural reasons: when the group is too large to work effectively as one, or when there are clear power imbalances and dominant voices need to be separated to allow others to be heard. Even then, integration is the main event. Where factions already exist, the split can surface them quickly and deliberately, and rationalisation of conflict becomes the tool for working through what the groups found. The crack is brought into the open, not papered over. Standard workshop facilitation splits for efficiency and hopes the outputs add up. The Search Conference splits only when the group cannot otherwise function, and treats the return to the whole as the most important part of the process.
#OpenSystemsTheory #SocioTechnical #OrgDesign #facilitation
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The series has become a book, available now on Leanpub.
http://www.organisationaldysfunctions.com -
Organisational Dysfunction of the Day
Divided for efficiency
Context: The workshop has twenty people and a full agenda. The facilitator divides the room into four groups of five, each working a different question in parallel. After ninety minutes, one person from each group presents a summary. The room acknowledges the outputs. A synthesis document appears a week later. Most people cannot clearly recall what they agreed to, or why — only that it was their group's table, not the others'.
OST explains: The reasoning behind the split is familiar: smaller groups work faster, everyone gets air time, parallel processing covers more ground. What it misses is that shared understanding cannot be transferred by a summary. It is something the group builds together, in real time, by working through difference. A summary tells you what another group concluded. It does not tell you the reasoning behind it, or the alternatives that were set aside. The integration cost is the whole conversation the groups never had. The Search Conference avoids this. The group works as a whole on the tasks that matter. Where subgroups are used at all, it is for two specific structural reasons: when the group is too large to work effectively as one, or when there are clear power imbalances and dominant voices need to be separated to allow others to be heard. Even then, integration is the main event. Where factions already exist, the split can surface them quickly and deliberately, and rationalisation of conflict becomes the tool for working through what the groups found. The crack is brought into the open, not papered over. Standard workshop facilitation splits for efficiency and hopes the outputs add up. The Search Conference splits only when the group cannot otherwise function, and treats the return to the whole as the most important part of the process.
#OpenSystemsTheory #SocioTechnical #OrgDesign #facilitation
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The series has become a book, available now on Leanpub.
http://www.organisationaldysfunctions.com -
Organisational Dysfunction of the Day
Divided for efficiency
Context: The workshop has twenty people and a full agenda. The facilitator divides the room into four groups of five, each working a different question in parallel. After ninety minutes, one person from each group presents a summary. The room acknowledges the outputs. A synthesis document appears a week later. Most people cannot clearly recall what they agreed to, or why — only that it was their group's table, not the others'.
OST explains: The reasoning behind the split is familiar: smaller groups work faster, everyone gets air time, parallel processing covers more ground. What it misses is that shared understanding cannot be transferred by a summary. It is something the group builds together, in real time, by working through difference. A summary tells you what another group concluded. It does not tell you the reasoning behind it, or the alternatives that were set aside. The integration cost is the whole conversation the groups never had. The Search Conference avoids this. The group works as a whole on the tasks that matter. Where subgroups are used at all, it is for two specific structural reasons: when the group is too large to work effectively as one, or when there are clear power imbalances and dominant voices need to be separated to allow others to be heard. Even then, integration is the main event. Where factions already exist, the split can surface them quickly and deliberately, and rationalisation of conflict becomes the tool for working through what the groups found. The crack is brought into the open, not papered over. Standard workshop facilitation splits for efficiency and hopes the outputs add up. The Search Conference splits only when the group cannot otherwise function, and treats the return to the whole as the most important part of the process.
#OpenSystemsTheory #SocioTechnical #OrgDesign #facilitation
***
The series has become a book, available now on Leanpub.
http://www.organisationaldysfunctions.com -
Organisational Dysfunction of the Day
Divided for efficiency
Context: The workshop has twenty people and a full agenda. The facilitator divides the room into four groups of five, each working a different question in parallel. After ninety minutes, one person from each group presents a summary. The room acknowledges the outputs. A synthesis document appears a week later. Most people cannot clearly recall what they agreed to, or why — only that it was their group's table, not the others'.
OST explains: The reasoning behind the split is familiar: smaller groups work faster, everyone gets air time, parallel processing covers more ground. What it misses is that shared understanding cannot be transferred by a summary. It is something the group builds together, in real time, by working through difference. A summary tells you what another group concluded. It does not tell you the reasoning behind it, or the alternatives that were set aside. The integration cost is the whole conversation the groups never had. The Search Conference avoids this. The group works as a whole on the tasks that matter. Where subgroups are used at all, it is for two specific structural reasons: when the group is too large to work effectively as one, or when there are clear power imbalances and dominant voices need to be separated to allow others to be heard. Even then, integration is the main event. Where factions already exist, the split can surface them quickly and deliberately, and rationalisation of conflict becomes the tool for working through what the groups found. The crack is brought into the open, not papered over. Standard workshop facilitation splits for efficiency and hopes the outputs add up. The Search Conference splits only when the group cannot otherwise function, and treats the return to the whole as the most important part of the process.
#OpenSystemsTheory #SocioTechnical #OrgDesign #facilitation
***
The series has become a book, available now on Leanpub.
http://www.organisationaldysfunctions.com -
Organisational Dysfunction of the Day
Divided for efficiency
Context: The workshop has twenty people and a full agenda. The facilitator divides the room into four groups of five, each working a different question in parallel. After ninety minutes, one person from each group presents a summary. The room acknowledges the outputs. A synthesis document appears a week later. Most people cannot clearly recall what they agreed to, or why — only that it was their group's table, not the others'.
OST explains: The reasoning behind the split is familiar: smaller groups work faster, everyone gets air time, parallel processing covers more ground. What it misses is that shared understanding cannot be transferred by a summary. It is something the group builds together, in real time, by working through difference. A summary tells you what another group concluded. It does not tell you the reasoning behind it, or the alternatives that were set aside. The integration cost is the whole conversation the groups never had. The Search Conference avoids this. The group works as a whole on the tasks that matter. Where subgroups are used at all, it is for two specific structural reasons: when the group is too large to work effectively as one, or when there are clear power imbalances and dominant voices need to be separated to allow others to be heard. Even then, integration is the main event. Where factions already exist, the split can surface them quickly and deliberately, and rationalisation of conflict becomes the tool for working through what the groups found. The crack is brought into the open, not papered over. Standard workshop facilitation splits for efficiency and hopes the outputs add up. The Search Conference splits only when the group cannot otherwise function, and treats the return to the whole as the most important part of the process.
#OpenSystemsTheory #SocioTechnical #OrgDesign #facilitation
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The series has become a book, available now on Leanpub.
http://www.organisationaldysfunctions.com -
What's the best way to hold a discussion with hundreds of attendees? A fishbowl sandwich can really get your attendees talking!
#meetings #EventDesign #SessionFormat #fishbowl #FishbowlSandwich #PairShare #facilitation #eventprofs
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What's the best way to hold a discussion with hundreds of attendees? A fishbowl sandwich can really get your attendees talking!
#meetings #EventDesign #SessionFormat #fishbowl #FishbowlSandwich #PairShare #facilitation #eventprofs
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What's the best way to hold a discussion with hundreds of attendees? A fishbowl sandwich can really get your attendees talking!
#meetings #EventDesign #SessionFormat #fishbowl #FishbowlSandwich #PairShare #facilitation #eventprofs
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What's the best way to hold a discussion with hundreds of attendees? A fishbowl sandwich can really get your attendees talking!
#meetings #EventDesign #SessionFormat #fishbowl #FishbowlSandwich #PairShare #facilitation #eventprofs
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What's the best way to hold a discussion with hundreds of attendees? A fishbowl sandwich can really get your attendees talking!
#meetings #EventDesign #SessionFormat #fishbowl #FishbowlSandwich #PairShare #facilitation #eventprofs
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A story about the value of knowing where you are via a core ingredient of improv—The Story Spine—linked to a personal introspective question
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A story about the value of knowing where you are via a core ingredient of improv—The Story Spine—linked to a personal introspective question
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A story about the value of knowing where you are via a core ingredient of improv—The Story Spine—linked to a personal introspective question
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A story about the value of knowing where you are via a core ingredient of improv—The Story Spine—linked to a personal introspective question
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A story about the value of knowing where you are via a core ingredient of improv—The Story Spine—linked to a personal introspective question
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Ever experienced a collision of agreements? Here's an example — and what I learned — during a one-day workshop with 24 college presidents.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/09/collision-agreements
#meetings #EventDesign #facilitation #agreements #conflicts #eventprofs
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Ever experienced a collision of agreements? Here's an example — and what I learned — during a one-day workshop with 24 college presidents.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/09/collision-agreements
#meetings #EventDesign #facilitation #agreements #conflicts #eventprofs
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Ever experienced a collision of agreements? Here's an example — and what I learned — during a one-day workshop with 24 college presidents.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/09/collision-agreements
#meetings #EventDesign #facilitation #agreements #conflicts #eventprofs
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Ever experienced a collision of agreements? Here's an example — and what I learned — during a one-day workshop with 24 college presidents.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/09/collision-agreements
#meetings #EventDesign #facilitation #agreements #conflicts #eventprofs
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Ever experienced a collision of agreements? Here's an example — and what I learned — during a one-day workshop with 24 college presidents.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/09/collision-agreements
#meetings #EventDesign #facilitation #agreements #conflicts #eventprofs
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Bigger conferences aren't always better. Here's why meaningful participation, not attendance, will define the future of successful conferences.
#eventprofs #ConferenceDesign #meetings #facilitation #participation #post
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2026/08/conference-scale-vs-value
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Bigger conferences aren't always better. Here's why meaningful participation, not attendance, will define the future of successful conferences.
#eventprofs #ConferenceDesign #meetings #facilitation #participation #post
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2026/08/conference-scale-vs-value
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Bigger conferences aren't always better. Here's why meaningful participation, not attendance, will define the future of successful conferences.
#eventprofs #ConferenceDesign #meetings #facilitation #participation #post
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2026/08/conference-scale-vs-value
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Bigger conferences aren't always better. Here's why meaningful participation, not attendance, will define the future of successful conferences.
#eventprofs #ConferenceDesign #meetings #facilitation #participation #post
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2026/08/conference-scale-vs-value
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Bigger conferences aren't always better. Here's why meaningful participation, not attendance, will define the future of successful conferences.
#eventprofs #ConferenceDesign #meetings #facilitation #participation #post
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2026/08/conference-scale-vs-value
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Bigger conferences aren't always better. Here's why meaningful participation, not attendance, will define the future of successful conferences.
#eventprofs #ConferenceDesign #meetings #facilitation #participation
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2026/08/conference-scale-vs-value
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Bigger conferences aren't always better. Here's why meaningful participation, not attendance, will define the future of successful conferences.
#eventprofs #ConferenceDesign #meetings #facilitation #participation
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2026/08/conference-scale-vs-value
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Bigger conferences aren't always better. Here's why meaningful participation, not attendance, will define the future of successful conferences.
#eventprofs #ConferenceDesign #meetings #facilitation #participation
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2026/08/conference-scale-vs-value
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Bigger conferences aren't always better. Here's why meaningful participation, not attendance, will define the future of successful conferences.
#eventprofs #ConferenceDesign #meetings #facilitation #participation
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2026/08/conference-scale-vs-value
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Bigger conferences aren't always better. Here's why meaningful participation, not attendance, will define the future of successful conferences.
#eventprofs #ConferenceDesign #meetings #facilitation #participation
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2026/08/conference-scale-vs-value