Facilitation Guide

I think a lot about facilitation, what works, my mistakes, etc.

Pre-Work

Pre-Meeting Interviews: If you think you can just have a meeting without interviewing folks, think again. You need to know the dynamics, tolerances, and preferences of everyone.
Identifying the Purpose: The essentials of developing a meeting's purpose. Without this, your meeting will fail.
Building an Agenda - The Spine: The essentials of building a collaborative meeting agenda. I call it a "Spine."
Planning the Meeting: The overall process to plan a meeting that doesn't suck is involved, time-consuming, and well worth it. Here are the steps and some rules to follow.

Two Underdeveloped Leadership Skills: The two most important skills that leaders need to grow are their facilitation and delegation skills. Mastery of both improves decision-making, frees up time, and builds better organizations.
Wtf Meetings: -
Work Early To Work Remote: -
Tidy House Game: -
Three Column Retros Are Killing Your Teams: Everyone knows the start, stop, and continue retrospective. That retrospective is terrible for helping teams improve because it leads to poor decisions, lots of assumptions, and lacks connection to the real world.
The One Remote Person: -
Name Game: -
Missing Skill Facilitation: -
How Long Should We Meet: -
How To Introduce An Activity As A Facilitator: -
Bringing Conversations To A Point Using Orid: -
A Blind Retrospective: -
4 Steps To Better Actions: -
3 Tips For Guerilla Facilitation: -
3 Questions To Better Actions: -