Facilitating Group Process

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Facilitating Group Process

• Getting the team to think in unison
• Getting the most out of the meeting
• Getting the greatest
• value out of their work

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Your New RoleKeep Group Health High

• To coach the team to success
• To mediate differences to an advantage
• To mature teams focus and output
• To validate understanding
• To talk less and manage more

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Your New Goal Team Performance

• Give the team success accountability
• Give guidelines for success
• Team Agreement
• We did, We do, We will do.
• Equal air, equal share
• Its Us vs. Problem
• Drive Toward Action

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Your New Secret Group Dynamics

• You manage contextnot content
• Enlist Accountability
• Listen at a different level
• Grow team maturity (less me more we)
• Run interference manager, culture

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Your New Tools Great Questions

• Icebreaker engage thinking
• Inquiry enlighten understanding
• Focus redirection
• Clarity remove assumptions
• Planned Paranoia - communication
• Follow-up readiness

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Your New Weapon Avoiding Traps

• Getting too invested
• Allowing one to speak for all
• Moving too slow or too fast
• Assuming
• Engaging the Sound of Silence
• Doing it all yourself

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And dont forget to do a Hot Wash-up

• Last 4 minutes of a meeting
• Key word Like...what is one thing you liked
  about todays meeting?
• Key word Betterwhat is one thing that would
  have made this meeting better?
• Share around the table
• Incorporate into future meetings