The basics of successful facilitation. Quick and easy.

1. Facilitation Basics

2. Listening Acknowledging Recognizing

3. Goals

4. Focus Efficiency Fairness Effectiveness

5. Unintentional… conversation stoppers, idea enders, momentum killers

6. No Won't Can't Don’t But

7. Lesser known evil

8. Need Easy Fast Just Only

9. Value adding language

10. Also… Additionally…. In addition to that… I would like to add to that...

11. Great thought! Is it possible that… That’s very interesting have you considered... Is it also possible that…

12. Body Language

13. Just say yes. It feels good and works.

14. Validate and grow thoughts.

15. All of us are smarter than one of us.

16. Lean forward Arms open Head up Eye contact

17. The rules of facilitation Assign or volunteer to lead Clearly define topic or challenge 1 at a time No talking over each other All ideas are good ideas! Note all ideas Keep team on task Validate & move forward

18. Results

19. All people speaking the same language All ideas explored Everyone participates

20. Brainstorming is a technology when used right. So are: Language Pens Paper And diagrams