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Increase Your Breadth to Be a More Effective Communicator & Facilitator
Extra breadth especially matters when you do not know the audience well or suspect hidden agendas.

JD Solomon
Nov 12, 20242 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


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


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


Storming, Norming, and Performing to Group Synergy
Groups go through different stages as they develop, and it's important to understand where a team stands in its maturity spectrum to...

Lester Ray Moore
Jul 10, 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


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


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...

CWF
May 1, 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
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