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The Art of Facilitating Meetings with Sticky Notes

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Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. What’s in your facilitation toolkit? Take for example my colleague Eugene Eric Kim who shares his facilitation toolkit which includes links to his favorite Post It notes and markers. When I facilitate training, I use analog and digital tools and materials.

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For Positive Outcomes, Hold a Mirror Up to Board Performance

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These are additional benefits that the willingness to explore accomplishments as well as setbacks can deliver: The National Association of Corporate Directors reports that boards that conduct self-assessments are more likely to have high-performing CEOs. Sometimes an outside facilitator can move members forward more quickly.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

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Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer? Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Here’s what I learned.

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The Art of Facilitating Virtual Meetings with Sticky Notes

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I also wanted to experiment with translating some facilitation techniques I use for face-to-face meetings (like sticky note facilitation ) to virtual meetings. Next, as a group we do a theme analysis. Depending on the number of people in your group, there are different ways to facilitate the report out.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Integrating Thinking and Feedback Activities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

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Funders: Considering Collaboration? Start With a Light Touch and See Where It Leads

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According to Exponent Philanthropy’s 2022 Foundation Operations and Management Report , sixty percent of our members collaborate with other funders. This mapping exercise helps funders meet unmet or underfunded needs and populations. . Rotate hosting and facilitation. First Steps to Learning and Working Together .

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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

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Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Help the facilitator understand how people are feeling half-way through the session so real-time tweaks to design can be made. Support a fun icebreake r.

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