How to Get Your Boss's Boss to Understand

Commit to being a person that executive leadership wants to hear from when the chips are down.

Understanding what facilitation is and the elements of CATER provides the foundation for guiding participants to solutions that are created, understood, and accepted by all.

Empower these four roles in a timely manner 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 experiencing one of these situations now, so I do what I normally do – I pull out my old yellow folder and review some thought-provoking references. These are four roles for you, either as facilitator or participant, to use as part of an intervention approach

Facilitating technical problems and related assessment tools is difficult because the process is all about data, logic, and application....

The dominance of group effects varies depending on the specific context and circumstances. However, negative group effects, like...

Several group effects can arise when teams work through business issues. Synergist organizations work to mitigate poor group dynamics...

People get promoted, change jobs, move, or change teams in other ways. When this happens, new members often join a team, and these...

The mental model CATER will help you recall the five ways to improve any form of team facilitation. CATER does two big things necessary...

Fist to five is a simple and effective technique for improving team dynamics and gauging consensus. In this simple method, participants...