Tag: facilitation

There isn’t a single answer to the question – Should I hire a facilitator? – because it requires a few additional questions to determine the best answer. What type of meeting

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

When someone asks me out for coffee (literally or figuratively), they often follow their invitation with this declaration. “I want to be a brainstorm facilitator.” Like any occupation, a brainstorm

Change Your Perspective is Post #1 in a series from a presentation entitled 11 Great Creative Slip-Ups:  The Most Common Mistakes in Brainstorming. The introduction to the series begins here. The Problem: Starting

Many moons ago, I was asked to give a presentation on common brainstorming mistakes to a lovely group of people at Worldcom Public Relations Group, the largest partnership of P.R.

This post is #5 in a longer series of articles based on a presentation I gave to the Public Relations Insitute of Australia on “How To Make Your Audience Listen Better.” The Introduction

This article begins a three-part series on the basics of brainstorming, organised by … What To Do Before the Brainstorm  (click ) What To Do During the Brainstorm What To Do After the Brainstorm  (click ) While these

One book that keeps finding its way to the top of my shelves is How To Make Meetings Work, by Michael Doyle and David Straus. One of the most useful

There’s lots of tasks when the ‘do it yourself’ approach works a treat, and other times, not so much. For example, performing your own dental surgery isn’t a great idea.

Are brainstorms dead?  They probably are, if this describes your brainstorms. Welcome to bad brainstorms …  They’re held in a featureless conference room. No beverages or food. No brainstorm supplies,