Developing Facilitation Skills

Julie Drybrough of Fuchsia Blue writes about dissent in organisations and the experience of exploring uncomfortable ideas.

Christine Bell Thompson of the Centre for Facilitation shares her experience of a useful facilitation tool.

This article by Nigel Chapman from the Centre for Facilitation makes the excellent point that facilitation is about more than introducing fun techniques.

Here is the Wikipedia definition of a facilitator.

This great short video clip gives lots of practical tips for preparing to facilitate a session.

This short blog post by Rachel Burnham for L&D Matters explores asking questions, which are an important part of facilitating.

This short guide from MindTools provides some useful starting points for facilitating a meeting.

This article by Amanda Ridings for FuchsiaBlue considers another key skill in facilitating - listening deeply.

Welcome to Day Three of the Exploring Dialogue series. The blogs are designed to consider the impact and influence of use-of-dialogue in everyday and organisational conversations. Writing about dialogue is a head-scratcher. I'm trying to write about something essentially verbal and experience-based. It's hard to find good language for this, I'm finding.....