Join or Judge
This a powerful technique to check in with people and help them make better decisions. Join or Judge is similar to Help or Hinder, but is *just* different enough to merit providing this for you and this is better used…
Four Agreements
Created by Don Miguel Ruiz, if you commit to living these agreements, it WILL change your life. It is also a great set of agreements for a group to agree to at the beginning of the day. You can use…
Start-Up Techniques
Start-Up Techniques are facilitative behaviors that create, continue or re-start a safe environment for learning. In the beginning: Get agreement on the collective focus of the group/team. By saying, “What would this group like to create today?” [hr] Inform the group that they…
Story of Two Wolves
This is a great parable to help participants make a conscious decision to actively participate. An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible…
How to ask GREAT Facilitation Questions
Questions During the Debrief The debrief is the most difficult aspect for non-facilitators because it feels SCARY! Look at FIMAGE and honestly assess yourself. But in truth, the debrief is the best part of the activity and what leads…
Experiential Learning Quotes
There are thousands of leadership quotes. These are among our favorites. [twocol_one]“Experiential learning takes place when a person involved in an activity looks back and evaluates it, determines what was useful or important to remember, and uses this information to perform…
10% Miracle
This is quite possibly the easiest method of participant buy-in you have in your arsenal. In front of the group simply ask: “Who feels they cannot improve <insert topic, i.e. communication> 10%?” 99.9% of the time, everyone will raise their…
Tuckman's Model
Forming Storming Norming and Performing is the model. Wonderful model for understanding a group process and lifetime. We have taken this down temporarily for modification!
Help or Hinder?
Helping or Hindering what? The answer to this question is something that you need to answer in every area of your life. Once you have determined what it is you would like to create, you can then begin to see…
Ladder of Inference Activity
Key learnings for participants: It is important to be aware of assumptions, and recognize one is making them, though sometimes it will be necessary to make assumptions (due to urgency of decisions, lacking complete information) Dynamic tension between speed of decisions and cost…