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Category: Facilitation

Brainstorm Supplies

“Be prepared” is a mantra that stretches from Plato to Madame Curie to the Boy Scouts. It’s also relevant for brainstorm supplies. There’s nothing worse when your participants are ready
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Facilitation Workshop

This Facilitation Workshop is designed for those who currently run meetings, or plan to do so in the immediate future. The program develops participants’ ability to lead meetings more effectively
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Tips for Effective Conference Calls

With more and more employees scattered in different offices – if not countries – presenting your ideas or recommendations are often done by conference calls (also known as audio calls
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Is Bad Brainstorm Behavior Acceptable?

During a long bus ride recently, I finished the Australian novel The Slap. Perhaps I was hallucinating after eight hours without WiFi, but I found a lot of symmetry between bad behavior
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Let Someone Else Brainstorm For You

This post is one in a series from a presentation on Creative Slip-Ups: The 11 Most Common Mistakes in Brainstorming. The introduction to the series is here. The slip-up:  People
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The Ten Qualities of a Brainstorm Facilitator

When someone invites me out for coffee (literally or figuratively), it’s usually followed by the statement: “I want to be a brainstorm facilitator.” Like any occupation, facilitation is a valuable skill
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The Most Common Mistakes in Brainstorming

Recently I gave a presentation on Creative Slip-Ups: The 11 Most Common Mistakes in Brainstorming to the Worldcom Public Relations Group, the world’s largest partnership of P.R. firms with more than
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How to Break Your Presentation with Conversation

This is one in a series from my earlier post “10 Things You Can Do To Help Your Audience Listen Better.”  It covers initial points on how to ask questions
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Do You Want to Demonstrate Your Intelligence In A Meeting?

If you want to demonstrate your intelligence in a meeting, you have two options. Based on more than 60 workshops and meetings over the past few weeks for a bank
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Adult Play and Creativity

Here are two posts about ‘play’ for adults, particularly in business. On one hand, it’s fairly well-known that play is an important ingredient for adults, both in creative thinking and
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