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...
top of page
Search
JD Solomon
Nov 4, 20233 min read
Choosing the Right Prioritization Approach Enables Effective Communication
Deciding what is most important can be difficult. Deciding what is most important as a group is usually difficult and frustrating....
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....
Lester Ray Moore
Jul 24, 20232 min read
My Three Favorite Group Effects and How to Mitigate Poor Team Dynamics
Several group effects can arise when teams work through business issues. Synergist organizations work to mitigate poor group dynamics...
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
Jul 3, 20232 min read
These Two American Statesmen Championed Effective Communication
American statesmen and founding fathers Thomas Jefferson and John Adams valued effective communication and recognized its importance....
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
Jan 24, 20234 min read
Why Water Utility Regionalization Requires Effective Communication
Water utility regionalization can take various forms, all of which contain elevated levels of complexity and uncertainty. Getting through...
CWF
Oct 7, 20221 min read
Communicate with FINESSE by Speaking to Everyone in the Same Way
Many frequently cited quotes are attributed to Albert Einstien, including, "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."...
JD Solomon
Oct 3, 20221 min read
Seven Simple Questions That Empower Communicating with FINESSE
Avoid initial statements and ask questions instead. Keep your questions simple because there is power in a well-placed question. And...
JD Solomon
Sep 18, 20222 min read
Five Reasons Being An Effective Communicator Helps Your Technical Career
We are all called upon weekly (or daily) to explain or defend our work. As technical professionals, video conferences, interfacing with...
JD Solomon
Apr 26, 20222 min read
Have You Ever Been Lost? Guiding Graphics Help Navigate Complexity and Uncertainty
Making decisions in situations with high levels of complexity and uncertainty is iterative. The decision maker must understand the...
bottom of page