Comments on: 5 Tips For Great Facilitation http://inflexionadvisors.com/blog/2010/05/05/5-tips-for-great-facilitation/ Changing HR one post at a time. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:28:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: BillBoorman http://inflexionadvisors.com/blog/2010/05/05/5-tips-for-great-facilitation/comment-page-1/#comment-31510 BillBoorman Wed, 05 May 2010 14:30:33 +0000 http://inflexionadvisors.com/blog/?p=309#comment-31510 Nice post Mark, Here are a few tips of my own for leading an unconference track: 1: Don't ask any questions in the opening. Start by asking the attendees for their questions and discussion points. 2: Accept that the attendees may want to talk about different topics within the subject. let them go where they want. It is their conversation, not yours. 3: Encourage attendees to move on when they have got what they want. there are 3 tracks going on at the same time. I sugest attendees pop in to them all to get a flavour, but they need encouraging that this is OK. I positively encourage through traffic. 4: Use all the track leaders to split the conversation if it is clear there are different interest areas. This keeps sub-groups foccused on what they want. 5: Some people are very uncomfortable talking in groups, don't push them. let them observe and listen. You can find an opportunity to check in with them on a one to one basis after the conversation. 6: If you get a dry moment, put the question out in the twitter stream. This brings new questions and opens up the conversation. it also involves the outside world. have somone permanently monitoring the stream and refer to them regularly to see what is coming in and what is going out. You can use your own track # as well as the #HREvolution tag to filter this and make sure you don't miss anything. Make sure you have somone in your track to do this job. 7: Don't feel you have to get conclusions and action points. Often, a focus on the questions for later thinking time pays off. 8; mostly, enjoy it. I guarantee you will learn more than you will teach! Be ambassadors for #HREvolution. Bill Nice post Mark,
Here are a few tips of my own for leading an unconference track:
1: Don’t ask any questions in the opening. Start by asking the attendees for their questions and discussion points.
2: Accept that the attendees may want to talk about different topics within the subject. let them go where they want. It is their conversation, not yours.
3: Encourage attendees to move on when they have got what they want. there are 3 tracks going on at the same time. I sugest attendees pop in to them all to get a flavour, but they need encouraging that this is OK. I positively encourage through traffic.
4: Use all the track leaders to split the conversation if it is clear there are different interest areas. This keeps sub-groups foccused on what they want.
5: Some people are very uncomfortable talking in groups, don’t push them. let them observe and listen. You can find an opportunity to check in with them on a one to one basis after the conversation.
6: If you get a dry moment, put the question out in the twitter stream. This brings new questions and opens up the conversation. it also involves the outside world. have somone permanently monitoring the stream and refer to them regularly to see what is coming in and what is going out. You can use your own track # as well as the #HREvolution tag to filter this and make sure you don’t miss anything. Make sure you have somone in your track to do this job.
7: Don’t feel you have to get conclusions and action points. Often, a focus on the questions for later thinking time pays off.
8; mostly, enjoy it. I guarantee you will learn more than you will teach!
Be ambassadors for #HREvolution.

Bill

]]> By: Benjamin McCall http://inflexionadvisors.com/blog/2010/05/05/5-tips-for-great-facilitation/comment-page-1/#comment-31509 Benjamin McCall Wed, 05 May 2010 12:06:04 +0000 http://inflexionadvisors.com/blog/?p=309#comment-31509 nicely summarized! nicely summarized!

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