#Facilitating
When we are facilitating a group discussion, what are we actually facilitating?
Not just the flow of conversation. We are facilitating, or guiding, collaborative thought: The exchange of ideas to teach an agreed-upon goal.
So, set a goal through a question…
When we are facilitating a group discussion, what are we actually facilitating?
Not just the flow of conversation. We are facilitating, or guiding, collaborative thought: The exchange of ideas to teach an agreed-upon goal.
So, set a goal through a question…
#facilitating
Ask: (Meeting Template)
• Why are we having this meeting?
• What would success look like? The desired outcome? What will we have that we didn't have before?
• What are we trying to explore, understand, generate ideas about, decide on?
Ask: (Meeting Template)
• Why are we having this meeting?
• What would success look like? The desired outcome? What will we have that we didn't have before?
• What are we trying to explore, understand, generate ideas about, decide on?
• By what process, in what overall format?
• What ore we NOT trying to do? eg,, make a premature decision, resolve rather than understand a conflict, reach a compromise rather than a consensus, debate rather than explore, etc.
• What's the form of the collaboration process?👇
• What ore we NOT trying to do? eg,, make a premature decision, resolve rather than understand a conflict, reach a compromise rather than a consensus, debate rather than explore, etc.
• What's the form of the collaboration process?👇
Collaboration processes: Brainstorming, building on each others' ideas, exchanging experiences to get more data, engaging in a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis?
• Are we solving a problem (generating options) or making a decision?
• Next step?
• Are we solving a problem (generating options) or making a decision?
• Next step?
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