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5 Brainstorming Exercises for Introverts | ideo.com

5 Brainstorming Exercises for Introverts | ideo.com | Serious Play | Scoop.it
How to adapt group activities to make sure all voices are heard
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How to Kick Off a Crash Course 

How to Kick Off a Crash Course  | Serious Play | Scoop.it

“Be a Design Thinking facilitator!” Join a community of learners, do-ers and teachers. Journey through a Design Thinking experience, apply it in the real world, and go forth and teach others the methodology.

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Why We Need Design Thinking Facilitators

Why We Need Design Thinking Facilitators | Serious Play | Scoop.it
Design thinking is important in companies everywhere. What makes a good design thinking facilitator? Read why this is key to org-wide design success.
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Train the Trainer: Innovation & Design Thinking Facilitator

Train the Trainer: Innovation & Design Thinking Facilitator | Serious Play | Scoop.it
Learn tools, techniques, and methods to facilitate innovation and design thinking...and train others.
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Resources by Seeds for Change

Resources by Seeds for Change | Serious Play | Scoop.it
So many resources and guides, designed to help you be more effective in your campaign, co-op or project.
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INFOGRAPHIC: Process Tools for Effective Meeting Facilitation

INFOGRAPHIC: Process Tools for Effective Meeting Facilitation | Serious Play | Scoop.it
Process tools are essential to meeting facilitation success. Here, we walk through 16 popular facilitation tools to help boost your meetings.
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16 Process Tools For Effective Facilitation

16 Process Tools for Effective Meeting Facilitation Source: Bens, Ingrid (2005) Facilitating With Ease, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
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IAF Methods

IAF Methods | Serious Play | Scoop.it
Welcome to IAF Methods Database intended for professional facilitators and dedicated to online and face-to-face methods for creating, leadin
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What “Facilitation” Really Means And Why It’s Key To The Future Of Work

What “Facilitation” Really Means And Why It’s Key To The Future Of Work | Serious Play | Scoop.it
Being a good facilitator isn’t the same as knowing how to manage people or run a meeting. It all comes down to understanding the tools–and structure–that help people collaborate.
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The Art of Facilitating Meetings with Sticky Notes

The Art of Facilitating Meetings with Sticky Notes | Serious Play | Scoop.it
What's in your facilitation toolkit?   Mine includes markers, sticky notes, index cards, and flip chart paper.   But wait, paper???   Yes.  And, I'm not alone.  Take for example my colleague Eugene Eric Kim who shares his facilitation toolkit which includes links to his favorite P
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Free Facilitator Guide

Free Facilitator Guide | Serious Play | Scoop.it

Tips and ideas to improve your facilitation skills:   

1. Facilitator Guide: Handbook of facilitation skills

2. Brainstorming: Tap the best thinking of a group

3. Discussion Tips: Strategies to conduct lively discussion

4. Evaluation Form: A three-aspect evaluation form

5. Visual Aids: Common sense tips for effective visual aid use

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The 23 Roles of an Educator | Trainers Warehouse Blog

The 23 Roles of an Educator | Trainers Warehouse Blog | Serious Play | Scoop.it

“The Role of the Educator” by Stephen Downes in Huff Post Education, Mar. 3, 2013; This synthesis was written by Kim Marshall, The Marshall Memo.

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I’m afraid, but I’m gonna do it anyway…UHM!

I’m afraid, but I’m gonna do it anyway…UHM! | Serious Play | Scoop.it
Hi, In my work as a facilitator of playful learning(*), I meet a lot of different people. The ones that are enthusiastic from the start and willing to try everything immediately. The ones that are ...
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How can we make people enjoy and engage in playful learning? You know leftbrain orientated people who have limiting beliefs about being playful? ;-) If you recognize this, read along.

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Arte de Anfitriar

Arte de Anfitriar | Serious Play | Scoop.it
O Art of Hosting, ou A Arte de Anfitriar, é uma abordagem para o alcance desde liderança pessoal até a sistêmica, utilizando práticas pessoais, de diálogo, facilitação e cocriação de inovação, de forma a endereçar mudanças complexas.
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Train Your Team: How Making an Omelette is Like Training

Train Your Team: How Making an Omelette is Like Training | Serious Play | Scoop.it
Train your team the same way you would make an omelette. Confused? Learn to build high-impact training programs that teach new skills and iterate results.
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How IBM Trains Design Thinking Facilitators – Design at IBM –

How IBM Trains Design Thinking Facilitators – Design at IBM – | Serious Play | Scoop.it
All experiences begin with a question or trigger. For us, it began when we decided to co-lead what IBM calls a Facilitator Activation — or F.Act — workshop. After discussing our past experiences with…
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Coaching, Facilitação e Treinamento - As Diferenças - Aprendix

Coaching, Facilitação e Treinamento - As Diferenças - Aprendix | Serious Play | Scoop.it

“Facilitação, Coaching e Treinamento não são a mesma coisa?” Esta é uma das questões mais comuns que ouço ao interagir com clientes. E eu adoro esta pergunta, porque ela me permite ir mais fundo e descrever os valores distintos que cada uma dessas profissões agrega para um indivíduo e uma organização. …

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20 Techniques to Improve Meeting Productivity – Ava S. Butler

20 Techniques to Improve Meeting Productivity – Ava S. Butler | Serious Play | Scoop.it
Over my years as a meeting facilitator, I have identified twenty fundamental techniques for facilitating successful meetings. These essential productivity techniques provide specific, uncomplicated processes to define meeting behavior, keep meetings on track, improve the clarity of communication, and maintain maximum energy.

These 20 techniques include: 

Specific techniques for defining and controlling meeting behavior include: 
1. Introductions 
2. Clearing 
3. Ground Rules 
4. Pulse Check For keeping your meeting on track, use: 
5. Parking Lot 
6. Verbal Warnings 
7. The Bell 
8. Three P Statements 
9. Shredded Questions 
10. Self-Management 
11. Go/No Go 

 For improving the clarity of communication, apply: 
12. Charting 
13. Art 
14. Analogies and Metaphors 

 When you want to stimulate and maintain high energy, utilize: 
15. Breaks 
16. Movement 
17. Toys 
18. Music 

 When you want to increase participation, employ: 
19. Writing
 20. Small Groups
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The Role of a Facilitator: Guiding an Event Through to a Successful Conclusion

The Role of a Facilitator: Guiding an Event Through to a Successful Conclusion | Serious Play | Scoop.it
Good facilitation makes the difference between event success or failure. Learn how to be an effective facilitator, and find out how to develop the skills for the role.
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Why You Shouldn't Always Suggest a Solution

Why You Shouldn't Always Suggest a Solution | Serious Play | Scoop.it

It's a natural reaction. Everyone does it. You hear a problem and you immediately want to prescribe a solution--the perfect antidote--a master plan that will solve everything. But all too often, you give into the temptation to define a solution well before the full problem is articulated and explored. You're not the only one. Leaders at all levels are guilty of doing this. They hear a problem--the outlines of danger--and they rush to offer their agenda. In their desire to be helpful, they end up setting others on a path that may be costly--not only in resources but also in time. There are a number of reasons why presenting a solution right away has downsides. 

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Four Ways to Introduce Yourself and Your Work as a Facilitator | North Star Facilitators

Four Ways to Introduce Yourself and Your Work as a Facilitator | North Star Facilitators | Serious Play | Scoop.it
Often people struggle with best ways to describe what they do as a process facilitator or how to market facilitation as a service to both internal and external clients. Sorry, there are really no easy ways to synthesize the complexity of what you do in the typical elevator speech format. However, let me give you some tips from some of my own experiences and those of long time experienced facilitators I trust.

First of all, to describe you and your work you might want to include four things:

1) the What – a brief description of facilitation
2) the Why- the benefits of having a facilitator
3) the When – when you step in to help – i.e., your role as facilitator
4) the How – your particular style and gifts that you would bring to the situation.

I will attempt to answer all four questions here. Just choose a few pithy phrases from each section and you might come up with a meaningful, succinct facilitator elevator speech…
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Active Reviewing Guide: how to facilitate active learning

Active Reviewing Guide: how to facilitate active learning | Serious Play | Scoop.it
Discover how to facilitate learning from experience, how to engage everyone in meaningful reflection and how to make learning more transferable.
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All About Facilitation, Group Skills and Group Performance Management

All About Facilitation, Group Skills and Group Performance Management | Serious Play | Scoop.it
Learn about facilitation, group skills and group performance management in this topic from the Free Management Library.
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The Heart of Innovation: The 10 Personas of a Really Effective Brainstorm Facilitator

The Heart of Innovation: The 10 Personas of a Really Effective Brainstorm Facilitator | Serious Play | Scoop.it

There's a ton of reasons why most brainstorming sessions under-deliver, but the main reason -- the Mount Olympus of reasons (drum roll, please....) is the brainstorm facilitator.

 

The reason has less to do with their process, tools, and techniques than it does with their inability to adapt to what's happening, real-time, in the room.

 

Take a few minutes now to rate yourself, on a scale of 1-10, for how skillful you are at embodying the following personas of a high flying brainstorm facilitator.

 

Then tune into your biggest strength and ask yourself how you can amplify that quality. Then identify your biggest weakness and figure out how you can improve in that arena.

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Co-Facilitation | Experiential Tools

Co-Facilitation | Experiential Tools | Serious Play | Scoop.it
Those whose work requires that they lead groups with other people often share that co-facilitation is one of the most challenging aspects of their jobs, but also the most beneficial and rewarding.
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Carol Sherriff's curator insight, September 16, 2013 2:59 PM

A neglected area of advice - co-facilitation