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Three Practical Solutions for Effective Communication in Big Decisions
By adopting checklists, seeking third-party reviews, and utilizing the FINESSE Fishbone Diagram, you can greatly improve your communication

JD Solomon
Jan 92 min read


Why Using Props Helps You Facilitate with FINESSE
Props make what you say memorable. They make you memorable, too.

JD Solomon
Oct 28, 20242 min read


So, You’ve Been Asked to Lead a Reliability Assessment
Assessing critical infrastructure and facilities is essential for maintaining performance as systems age. Mid-level engineers are...

JD Solomon
Mar 5, 20246 min read


Great Facilitators Anticipate Trouble: On Zoom-Bomb, PowerPoint, and Technology Misfires
Great facilitators anticipate trouble when guiding groups. We normally consider conflict between the participants as the most likely...

JD Solomon
Feb 12, 20243 min read


5 Tips to Improve Facilitation of Asset Management Plans
This short article provides five tips to improve the facilitation of strategic asset management plans. The bottom line is you need a...

JD Solomon
Jan 5, 20243 min read


The Guest Insights of 2023 from Communicating with FINESSE
There are a lot of outstanding insights in the 2023 guest articles for improving communication and facilitation skills. Many gold nuggets...

CWF
Jan 2, 20243 min read


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...

JD Solomon
Sep 8, 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 25, 20232 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
Aug 7, 20233 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 17, 20234 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
Jul 6, 20232 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 20, 20235 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
Jun 9, 20232 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 16, 20234 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...

JD Solomon
May 8, 20232 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
Apr 3, 20234 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
Mar 7, 20233 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 15, 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
Feb 8, 20234 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 18, 20233 min read
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