Facilitation

The Core Protocols We know from Google’s Aristotle project (2015) that successful teams need to have Psychological Safety. And we have very few ideas on how to achieve this, measure it, or even explain it. Google started his research studies about high-performance teams in 2010. In the same year, Jim and Michele McCarthy…

A short article about the differentiation between those two words — is it nonsensical, is it word appropriation or does it actually make some sense? Let’s find out. — In this short article, I’ll take a look at linguistic definitions of 4 words — “facilitate” (verb), “moderate” (verb), “facilitator” (noun), and “moderator” (noun) in order to check whether there is any difference between facilitation and moderation.

A picture is worth a thousand words How to avoid the failure of hand-raising speaking engagements where nobody dares to raise their hand and the endless round table discussions? A photolanguage workshop is, as its name suggests, an activity that combines photography and language. It is a visual method that facilitates speaking on a given subject. Participants…

As Product Designers, we know the importance of facilitating workshops with clients, team members, and stakeholders using different techniques. However, if you’re new to it, the process can be daunting. From creating an effective structure to engaging participants, there are numerous challenges that designers face when facilitating workshops. When I…

So this one time… At a previous company, new managers and the seniors they brought in approved many new architecture and technical designs. Unfortunately, these designs suffered numerous flaws (design, product, technical — you name it) because the architects avoided feedback from existing seniors, fearing (justifiably) that they would receive negative feedback. There was…

Facilitated workshops are a very common feature of organisational life and are sometimes very good examples of the kind of thinking that assumes we need to design a process to have a process. This doubling of process arises from the idea that groups of people called managers or facilitators can…

This is about my private facilitation & Liberating Structures iceberg. A journey down the rabbit hole of facilitation and related disciplines, so to say. Take from it whatever may interest you. I’ve divided the iceberg into 4+1 tiers: Above the surface — things that are easy to find and relatively…

As a Scrum Master or Agile coach, facilitation is an important skill. I know that when I began my journey, I really struggled to know what this really meant in practice. I understand what a facilitator does, but how do you purposefully grow your facilitation abilities and ensure you’re actually…