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Facilitation & Training Updates
The NHS continue to get bogged down with pay demands
My last post included thoughts about self-directed teams as opposed to top-down directives. Since then nothing has changed. The NHS continue to get bogged down with pay demands – yes they need to sort this out but if the doctors, nurses and support staff were...
Meetings that work get things done!
Less sit and discuss More get up and do! means More ownership and commitment in less time!Keith Warren-Price - Facilitator, Author of The Concise Facilitator, Queen’s Award, IAF. Works with: Cabinet Office, Home Office, Ministry of Justice, Roche, Rolls Royce, Toyota,...
Facilitation week
Facilitation week is over. A time for facilitators to celebrate all achievements, to self-criticise and to learn new techniques…..and there are so many to learn! Sometimes the learning is forced – Covid made us change and work on-line. More often the learning is...
Silence Is Golden – Not Just A Song But An Anathema, It Seems, To Many Meeting Leaders!
In basic training on “How to Run an Effective Meeting” how many times are we instructed to encourage the quiet to contribute verbally? Go around the table asking everybody to say something? Jot comments down on a flip chart? The measure appears to be, “How good are we...
Moving Forward
With danger around every corner why is it that so many groups are getting together in vast numbers to protest, visit the sea-side or go shopping? I suspect it’s boredom! We are desperate to get out of lockdown and get back to where we were before, and in business,...
On-line meetings – how would you rate them?
So, on-line meetings - how would you rate them between: To be tolerated………………………………….………..Really worthwhile? With the ever-increasing use of smartphones, Covid-19 and the opportunities for online networking, it’s easy to think we’re shifting away from in-person...
Pinboards – the real facilitators’ friend and workhorse!
Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice) came up with a first line - but she got it a bit wrong! She should have written, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a facilitator in possession of a good skill, must be in want of a Pinboard.” If...
Flip Charts – The Facilitator’s Friend
Flip Charts - The Facilitator’s Friend Those of you who know me, are aware I don’t like them too much as they tend to be badly used and the user is the one under the spotlight - when it’s the group that should be the centre of it all. (Use of Pinboards instead - will...
Writing on cards and flip charts
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If you think you can’t draw, don’t!
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What can the over 70’s do to help the war against Covid 19?
What’s on the box every single day does not seem enough! Stay at home. Let others risk themselves to deliver food and medicines. Stand on the doorstep and clap the brilliant NHS staff, emergency services, utility workers and so on. So what can this 73 year old codger...
Coronavirus – you decide!
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