Facilitation

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Facilitation 101
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What is Facilitation?

• the act of assisting or making easier the
  progress or improvement of something
• The art of organizing effective meetings and
  making decisions

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Why is facilitation important?

• Ensuring ownership by all members
• Utilizing the strengths and assets of all
  participants
• Building good group dynamics
• To coordinate initiatives and break up tasks
• To make good decisions!!

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Types of Decision Making

• Dictatorships
• Oligarchy
• Majority Rules (or Roberts Rules of Order)
• Participatory Decision Making
• Informal Consensus
• but one of the MOST IMPORTANT aspect of
  decision making is that the group agrees on a
  process to make decisions

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Testing for Consensus
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Strategies for great meetings!
Before during after
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Strategies for great meetings!

• Before Agenda Setting!
• Topic ? Outcome
• Outcome ? Process
• Send agenda out ahead of time
• Leave lots of time!
• Plan activities
• Have set roles established (note-taker,
  facilitator, etc)

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Strategies for great meetings!
During the diamond of group decision-making Ne
w Topic Decision-point
Divergent thinking
Convergent thinking
Think, Pair Share Brainstorming Small Group
Discussions Go around/popcorn
Gradients of Agreement
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Strategies for great meetings!

• After Follow Up
• Send out minutes
• Ensure support structures are in place
• Check those action-items off the list!

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Troubleshooting!