Why Using Props Helps You Facilitate with FINESSE
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JD Solomon
Mar 56 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
Feb 123 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
Jan 53 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...
CWF
Jan 23 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...
JD Solomon
Sep 8, 20232 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
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...
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...
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