Empower These Four Roles When Technical Collaboration Bogs Down
Occasionally, the technical collaboration bogs down. The facilitator must decide what to do in order to get the team back on track. I am...
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JD Solomon
Aug 25, 20232 min read
Focus on Facilitation Basics for Effective Technical Collaboration
Facilitating technical problems and related assessment tools is difficult because the process is all about data, logic, and application....
JD Solomon
Aug 7, 20233 min read
The First Step of Virtual Facilitation is Virtual Platform Training
COVID reminded even the most experienced facilitators that conducting all-virtual facilitation creates a dependency on the virtual...
JD Solomon
Jul 17, 20234 min read
Five Tips That Effective Facilitators Use to Onboard and Socialize New Team Members
People get promoted, change jobs, move, or change teams in other ways. When this happens, new members often join a team, and these...
JD Solomon
Jul 6, 20232 min read
Why CATER Is a Powerful Mental Model for Improving Team Facilitation
The mental model CATER will help you recall the five ways to improve any form of team facilitation. CATER does two big things necessary...
JD Solomon
Jun 20, 20235 min read
Improve Team Dynamics by Modifying This One Simple Technique
Fist to five is a simple and effective technique for improving team dynamics and gauging consensus. In this simple method, participants...
JD Solomon
Jun 9, 20232 min read
Five Unique Attributes of the Fresh Book, Facilitating with FINESSE
Facilitating with FINESSE: A Guide to Successful Business Solutions is a practitioner's guide for ten common applications that...
JD Solomon
May 16, 20234 min read
How Young Professionals Can Build a Facilitation Team and Empower Their Careers
Young professionals bring the knowledge and insights needed for any organization to succeed. By 2025, half of the global workforce will...
JD Solomon
May 8, 20232 min read
What Young Professionals Can Do To Build a Facilitation Team and Empower Their Careers
Young professionals bring the knowledge and insights needed for any organization to succeed. By 2025, half of the global workforce will...
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May 1, 20232 min read
Nine Questions with JD Solomon on his New Book, Facilitating with FINESSE
Ray Moore and JD Solomon recently sat down and chatted about JD’s new book, Facilitating with FINESSE: How to Lead Others to Successful...
JD Solomon
Apr 3, 20234 min read
Five Tips for Facilitating Large Groups
Facilitating large groups can be intimidating. As always, successful facilitation starts with doing the basics well. Special attention in...
JD Solomon
Mar 7, 20233 min read
What Little League Baseball Taught Me About Great Facilitation Agendas
Baseball coaches and facilitators often share the common problem of developing an agenda. And if one meaning of facilitation is to make...
JD Solomon
Feb 15, 20234 min read
Why FINESSE Is a Powerful Communication Model and Mental Model
FINESSE is a powerful cause-and-effect approach that describes how effective communication works in the real world. FINESSE is a linear...
JD Solomon
Feb 8, 20234 min read
FINESSE: Technical Professionals Need a Communication Approach to Be Effective
Technical professionals usually become focused on hard skills and have little time to focus on soft skills like communication. The result...
JD Solomon
Jan 18, 20233 min read
Don't Forget This One Big Thing When Facilitating a Strategic Plan
I was recently wandering around the lobby at Grand Strand Medical Center when I suddenly ran into an oversized bulletin board. I expected...
JD Solomon
Jan 10, 20232 min read
How To Improve Communication and Facilitation with the FINESSE Mental Model
After a guest lecture at a major US university, I recently had a follow-up conversation with a graduate student. The discussion centered...
JD Solomon
Dec 20, 20223 min read
The Three Most Common Disruptors When Facilitating Risk Management Plans
Risk management plans can be some of the most challenging things to guide the participants through a series of predefined steps to arrive...
JD Solomon
Dec 7, 20224 min read
Facilitating Risk Management Plans Starts with These Foundations
Facilitation of risk management plans starts with understanding key definitions, understanding organizational context, and choosing the...
JD Solomon
Nov 29, 20223 min read
8 Tips for Facilitating Public Workshops and Comment Sessions
Facilitating public workshops and comment sessions are typically conducted by public-sector organizations. These sessions are intended to...
JD Solomon
Nov 10, 20223 min read
Facilitation Lessons Learned: One Board, Four Board Retreats, and Four Formats
Facilitators seldom have the opportunity to use four formats with the same board of directors for four consecutive years. Blame it on...
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