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Facilitation Friday #6: Balance Content and Process, Ideas and Action

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Facilitation Friday #6: Balance Content and Process, Ideas and Action. Effective facilitation must manage (or balance content and process, as well as attention to both ideas and action. The right content rushed through too quick a process is unlikely to lead to participants truly owning any commitments made.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Seen Elsewhere: Building Creative.

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Summary: A selection of thought-provoking content from beyond the association management realm that offers new ideas for association executives. Where TED Talks do so in a video format, ChangeThis does so by releasing attractively-designed manifestos on topics related to leadership and life. Thanks to Joe. Brain Pickings. ChangeThis.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: The One Rule for Public Speaking.

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But it will be difficult to forget if you lack passion in your tone or substance in your content. Dec 2002 (6). Nov 2002 (4). Sep 2002 (2). Aug 2002 (3). Jul 2002 (3). Jun 2002 (2). May 2002 (4). Jeffrey Cufaude. on Sunday, April 29, 2012. Email This BlogThis! 2 comments: Sally Strackbein.

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Getting Married to Membership May Require Engagement First

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are present, engaged, and contributing, we help create the content and. We will often offer some free content to gain an opt-in for the organization and then cultivate the relationship with additional free information. Dec 2002 (6). Nov 2002 (4). Sep 2002 (2). Aug 2002 (3). Jul 2002 (3). Jun 2002 (2).

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: The Benefit of the Doubt

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Instead of trying to engage in genuine dialogue with other people, too many individuals seem content to engage in caustic monologues that speak only to themselves. Dec 2002 (6). Nov 2002 (4). Sep 2002 (2). Aug 2002 (3). Jul 2002 (3). Jun 2002 (2). May 2002 (4). May 2004 (5). Jan 2004 (3).

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Facilitation Friday #21: How to.

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The closing section of a facilitated effort should include a carefully calibrated mix of attention to both the content and process of what just took place. Here the facilitation emphasis likely has been on content, not the relationships among the participants, so the closure effort should do the same. Dec 2002 (6). Awesome Inc.

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Facilitation Friday #16: Over-prepare, Under-present

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You identify your outcomes, select the appropriate content, and then outline your talk in the most logical order. But in general, we must bridge our content with what participants want and need. Build slide decks that include additional content you can turn to if the. Dec 2002 (6). Nov 2002 (4). Sep 2002 (2).