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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. They appreciate and understand that different groups may need to use different processes to achieve different desired outcomes.

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

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In 2002, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills identified a set of qualities they consider most important for learning in the digital era. In this age of unprecedented processing power, why is critical thinking important? Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Rethinking 80-20

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What if the these percentages are not because of some predetermined tendency of the way individuals act, but is instead a logical result of the systems and processes we put into place? Your problem may not be the people, but instead your processes. Our investigations Almost always expose a weakness in a process. Dec 2002 (6).

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Facilitation Friday #15: Tools for.

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Facilitators can use simple process tools to help make individuals views public and to facilitate a more thorough examination of their implications. Once insights have been gathered from this process, you should then facilitate open discussion. Dec 2002 (6). Nov 2002 (4). Sep 2002 (2). Aug 2002 (3).

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The 4 myths about DELP

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When I was accepted into DELP in 2008, I was Director of Political Advocacy for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, had worked in the association community for 13 years and earned my MA in Government from Johns Hopkins University in 2002. Myth #3 – The selection process is not competitive. They do give back.

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Facilitation Friday #10: Establish Rules of Engagement

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This is an excellent example of why it is important to understand how to manage challenge and support. You could begin the process prior to the first meeting or conversation, anonymously collecting and aggregating individuals ideas via an online tool like SurveyMonkey. Dec 2002 (6). Nov 2002 (4). Sep 2002 (2).

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Facilitation Friday #8: Help Surface.

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Similarly, when individuals suggest a course of action or a particularly strong opinion, effective facilitation can help them share the thought process behind their perspective to help others gain a better understanding of it: "Susan could you tell us a little more about whats led you to that conclusion"? Dec 2002 (6). Nov 2002 (4).