Beth Kanter

MAY 15, 2020

Recently I facilitated an online session about how to get better at online meetings for Lightful in the UK where I am a Senior Advisor at Lightful, among other activities, facilitate online master classes for their BRIDGE programme. An online meeting is more effective when you have at least two facilitators. Don’t wing it alone.

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Smooth The Path

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

After participants see what is possible, facilitate a conversation about how these existing solutions could be adapted. Then get participants to brainstorm new solutions and finally test those new solutions out. Often, solutions are buried in the community that are not widely known, and an event like this can amplify these solutions.

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Elevating Engagement

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

. #2: Silent synchronous brainstorming Once the stage has been set, we start brainstorming solutions. I also like a process developed by Matchbox Virtual Media where people silently brainstorm together in a Google Doc, with each person adding ideas, then going back to plus up each other’s ideas.

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.orgSource

APRIL 22, 2024

Get everyone accustomed to participating in brainstorming. They are also good facilitators. Share your vision for the organization broadly and identify how staffers contribute individually to those goals. Then invite ideas and innovation. Don’t limit creativity to the management team.

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Associations Now

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

NCARB has the dual mandate of protecting the public while facilitating licensure, so it’s critical to us that the rigor involved in getting licensed is backed up by data and not disproportionately affecting any group,” Matthews said. According to Matthews, NCARB began brainstorming what necessary information might be missing.

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Associations Now

MAY 28, 2019

Also: Improve your facilitation skills. Become an Effective Meetings Facilitator. How to improve your facilitation practice using continual improvement, illustrated with an example from The Solution Room. New post: How to improve your facilitation: an example [link] #eventprofs #assnchat #facilitation pic.twitter.com/JfyRceF0up.

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Idea Architects

MARCH 30, 2020

Do freely brainstorm all of what you COULD present, but then edit ruthlessly to distill the specifics into a handful (4-6) overarching themes or branches upon which you’ll hang the rest of your content. Webinar design must effectively facilitate understanding, learning, and application. Create greater content clarity.

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Smooth The Path

AUGUST 21, 2016

Have you ever facilitated a brainstorm where no matter what you did you couldn’t get the energy up and the participation flowing? Have you ever participated in a brainstorm and had a hard time coming up with great ideas? I love brainstorms! I love great brainstorms. I love the collaboration.

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Reid All About it

AUGUST 5, 2016

Brainstorm ways to start planning for the uncertain future with case studies and best practices from around the globe. Standard meetings and brainstorming sessions don’t cut it in an era of shifting business models and increasing competitive pressures. Effective Webinar Design and Facilitation. 1 CMP credit. CAE credit.

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Beth Kanter

APRIL 8, 2020

As the facilitator or meeting host, you can also judge whether you have allowed for enough time by watching the note-taking process in the google document. Brainstorm Ideas: Put 3-6 people in different breakout rooms and give them a brainstorming question prompt – something like “How might we …?” What is a challenge?

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Association Success

OCTOBER 4, 2017

We attribute part of our success to the fact that our team has embraced the concept of brainstorming and we regularly include this practice in our work routine. Here are five ways our team has made brainstorming work for us: 1. We schedule brainstorming sessions regularly and well in advance. Everyone is busy. Plan and Prepare.

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Idea Architects

MAY 11, 2020

Here's a very simple principle anyone who designs and/or facilitates meetings or workshops should commit to memory: for every content segment, a more engaging format likely exists. What often happens, however, is a presenter or facilitator focuses almost exclusively on content or format. Let's change that.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 2, 2021

Facilitators: Nicole Araujo, CAE, Client Engagement Director, Mighty Citizen. Be prepared to join mini breakouts throughout the session to brainstorm and collaborate with your peers on how to design more engaging meet ings. Facilitator: Lee Gimpel, founder, Better Meetings. More info/register. Host: ASAE. 1 CAE credit.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

A digital pass subscription gets you regular small group meetups, monthly expert live streams, weekly newsletter, benchmarking data, on-demand content, one-on-one brainstorming session, and event discounts. Facilitators: Alexandra Bradley, Director of Communications and Engagement, American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 19, 2021

Facilitator: Mike Ulmer. Facilitating Engagement Before, During and After the Event. The Tech Talk is a “how-to” session focusing on the best way to facilitate audience engagement. Beth Quick-Andrews, CAE (facilitator), President, Q&A—An Association Management Company, Inc. Presenter: Jamie Notter, co-founder, Propel.

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Idea Architects

APRIL 1, 2019

Here's a very simple principle anyone who designs and/or facilitates meetings or workshops should commit to memory: for every content segment, a more engaging format likely exists. What often happens, however, is a presenter or facilitator focuses almost exclusively on content or format.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Associations facilitate this by hosting conferences, volunteer opportunities and other events. By conversation or brainstorming topic — pay for someone’s dinner and ask them to report back on ideas shared — market research! Why not try the GrubWithUs model — small dinners for six to eight people?

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Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

How to Apply a Business Results Focus — Consider facilitating a session with some of your key stakeholders to map to their priorities. Jobs Responsibilities — Brainstorm what jobs these individuals must complete. Consultants and suppliers attend because their clients or potential clients are attending.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 12, 2021

WBT Systems introduces a new brainstorming and innovation tool: jootsing. Facilit8me: Lunch and Learn – Facilitation Soft Skills. Join a discussion focused on facilitating with difficult personalities. Facilitator: Mike Ulmer. This investment can produce great returns to retention and revenue.”. Innovation method.

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Achieve

MARCH 1, 2024

Brainstorm what your first few podcasts will be about and outline the episodes briefly. At this point, you’ll have dedicated quite some time to brainstorming and thinking about your podcast and should feel confident that this is a project you wish to commit to. Plan your content strategy. Purchase podcast equipment.

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Beth Kanter

JULY 25, 2017

Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer? Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Spectragram.

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Beth Kanter

AUGUST 13, 2019

As part of my work with nonprofit organizations to help them build a culture of resilience that I wrote about in the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , I have facilitated retreats where staff brainstorm ideas and identify simple ways that they can make working at their organization more enjoyable. Do people genuinely like each other?

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Idea Architects

JUNE 26, 2017

Futurists and other speakers outside the industry will introduce the trends coupled with self-guided small group discussions and facilitated large group Q&A. Approximately 85-100 mid-level professionals, about 65% male, will attend. Those attending generally will not know many other people present. Energy refreshed via stand-up time.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 9, 2021

Facilitator: Lee Gimpel, founder, Better Meetings. Facilitators: Amanda E. We ask participants to bring with them any facilitation challenges (past, present or future) they’d like to discuss as a group for supportive feedback, debrief and evaluation. Facilitators: Nicole Araujo, CAE, Client Engagement Director, Mighty Citizen.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

The World Café Format To maximize the brain power of our.orgCommunity professionals and to allow for a robust exchange of ideas, Sharon facilitated this conversation in a World Café format. The World Café is a strategy designed to deeply explore a series of topical questions. Participants were divided into about 7 tables of 8 to 10 people.

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Associations Now

JULY 31, 2019

Run by the firm IdeaConnection , the event uses peer review of ideas and facilitated discussion to give direction to the brainstorming, so that ideas with the most potential can be identified and explored in depth. It’s a way to source input from hundreds of experts in a sprint of a few days.

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Reid All About it

MAY 13, 2016

Brainstorm ways to start planning for the uncertain future with case studies and best practices from around the globe. Facilitator: John Nash, Executive Director, The Arc of North Carolina. Take a moment to preview the forecast for events in the coming year, including budget, attendance and business conditions. 1 CMP credit.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 1, 2021

Then we would transition into whole-group warm-up activities like reading the Golden Rule Haiku together, brainstorming or introducing the topic, and doing a quick tech overview; the warm-up took 10-15 minutes. Solve problems/brainstorm solutions. We opened with the unofficial start that lasted 6 to 7 minutes. Spot future trends.

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Potomac Core

APRIL 23, 2019

Grow the Industry – Creation of a Cold Chain Index to facilitate Industry growth and mitigate concerns of commoditization. The organization is also aligned with companies and never hesitates to step outside of traditional lanes to facilitate Industry success. These factors acknowledge GCCA’s role as market movers.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 15, 2021

We ask participants to bring with them any facilitation challenges (past, present or future) they’d like to discuss as a group for supportive feedback, debrief and evaluation. Facilitators: Holly Koenig, CEO, NYSAE. Dave Lutz (facilitator), managing director, Velvet Chainsaw Consulting. No challenge is too big or small.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 14, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Extreme brainstorming. If you want to kick your association out of the box in which it finds comfort, give these extreme brainstorming questions from WBT Systems a try. Our topic this month is Association Storytelling. More info/register.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Also: A brainstorm flipped on its head could be a great icebreaker. Brainstorming in Reverse. Generally when you talk about brainstorming, the goal is to build something creative or useful. Amazon Web Services, the popular cloud platform, can be tough to jump into due to its high level of complexity. Other Links of Note.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Meeting designer and facilitator Adrian Segar recommends brainstorming new products and services at your conferences. To mark its 20th anniversary, Google is revamping Search. Google is planning to add more images to search results, reports Wired. Take your ideation sessions from thoughts to products. VolunteerMatch delivers a report.

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Association Success

MAY 2, 2017

Taking a ‘clarity council’ approach, the audience will help the volunteers explore different strategies and brainstorm solutions. You’re willing to prepare for the session with the guidance of a facilitator. Each will tell their own story of a unique membership recruitment or retention challenge they face.

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Beth Kanter

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” ” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators. We chose the latter.

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SBI

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Facilitate personal goal setting. Include brainstorming time in every meeting. Support from fellow members during hard times is the whole reason many people belong to associations. Be willing to have the discussion, but don’t enter those talks assuming the worst of your friends and colleagues. Let’s be honest.

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Potomac Core

APRIL 19, 2016

While “ Big Data ” was essential to launching the initiative, it also provides ongoing context for pipeline industry brainstorming serving as critical member engagement opportunities. Industry Convener. Where else is the increase in regulatory activity reshaping associations? Member Engagement.

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