As a trainer you want your learners to have Collaborative interdependence: learners work together and they cannot accomplish the task without working together. Individual accountability: As a participant in a group activity, learners are accountable for maximizing their own learning. Sharon Bowman’s Training from the BACK of the Room book...

Strengthening good ideas Strengthening Good Ideas is a type of thinking. It encompasses questions such as, “What resources will we need to make this work?,  Do we have them?” and “Who else should take a look at this idea?” By having a shared goal and understanding of the problem, groups can focus and brainstorm...

Creative Reframing Reframing a problem so that participants can look at the problem in a new light is another technique to build consensus and help groups make decisions as a facilitator. Creative Reframing involves breaking out of our normal categories of analysis and reexamining our beliefs and assumptions.  Creative Reframing...

Great Job!! As a facilitator your meeting is going well, the participants have generated new ideas and you have lead them through discussing these ideas. Now it’s time for the meeting to converge and some decisions to be made. How do you build consensus? In many meetings, participants want to...

This blog is inspired by a tweet by @wes_kao shared with me by @berniemaloney. I teach trainers to deliver online training TBR-VE brain science principles and attended several online training as a learner both to learn and go into the meta of the training. Let’s start with the what I found by being...

As a Scrum Master finding ways to engage your team during a retrospective can be difficult. Once you have them engaged, keeping their attention can prove even harder. One of the more common retrospective tools a Scrum Master has in their belt is that of Lean Coffee. Lean Coffee is...