Everyone on your team is in a different place in their journey. Being an effective leader means meeting each person where they are by looking for signs and asking questions to determine “what does my team need most from me right now.”

Yesterday’s leaders “told.” Today’s leaders “listen” and are able to draw out ideas and expertise from others. Leaders who can facilitate make better decisions, increase team accountability, and achieve better results.

When it comes to leading change, there are two angles — guiding the change itself and guiding the people through the change journey. Change efforts “flop” from a lack of transparency behind the “why” of the change and lack of consideration for those impacted.

Before you send that email, what’s your plan? Do you have clear goals? Do people understand the urgency behind the change? If you answered any of these questions with a “not sure,” you need to do more planning before you launch your change.

Coffee Chats are an opportunity to practice virtual facilitation and connect with the facilitation community during the transition to online meetings. Almost by accident, it became an excellent tool for marketing our offers and workshopping new content.

Mural (and Miro) take time to feel comfortable with. We’re not saying don’t use it, we’re saying use it with intention. Start with your design and your participants in mind.

During this podcast “Meetings, Movement, and Change”, Joran, Geoffrey and Lauren belly laugh their way through early hybrid meeting facilitation experiences, the trials of a Pandemic year and bringing movement into facilitation.

Values can be a fuzzy subject, so let's take a moment to break them down in a way that can improve self-awareness, decision-making, and relationships with others.

When we understand the needs behind our judgments, we can get to the core of what's important to us and work to resolve the need in question, rather than the surface conflict.

There's a reason flight attendants say, "Put your oxygen mask on first before assisting others." We can't help others if we can't breathe.

During this podcast, Emily and Lauren discuss how Lauren got started in the field of visual facilitation, her tips for receiving feedback, the tools she uses, and what inspires her.

Making personal and intentional decisions means saying no to the wrong things, so that you can say yes to the right things.

A personal contract is operating agreements that we make with ourselves to remind us of who we are and how we work best in times of conflict, challenge and stress.

A mission statement is a reminder of what is of core importance to you. Crafting a mission statement is about choosing consciously to take a perspective in life.

A personal vision needs to have a kind of power over you, so that when you look at it or see it, it takes hold, you feel as though you are drawing it towards you.

Most people who start coaching want to jump into designing the future right away; however, the road map is not the beginning of the journey.

In this episode, we discuss how facilitators can become more confident in the nascent world of virtual facilitation, how dance and facilitation have more in common than many would think, and why we should strive for silence, not conversation.

Facilitating online is different but it doesn't have to be worse. In this 18 minutes "campfire" session, we breakdown virtual facilitation essentials.

Work with people the way they are, not as the way we wish them to be. Instead of trying to control how people act, turn attention to the structure of the meeting.

SessionLab takes the guesswork out of manipulating times and blocks of content to create an easy-to-follow agenda for facilitating virtually online or in person.