Photo by Randy Fath on UNSPLASH Introduction   How do you facilitate collaboration among groups with a history of competition and siloed work, faced with a change challenge?   A set of lessons from experience are: get people to work together, rather than talk at each other – minimize passive listening use engaging methods and techniques in a designed logical series of incremental steps focus on results of collective benefit – iteratively review progress towards those results.

Managing time is a contradiction or oxymoron.  Time doesn’t lend itself to being managed.  We have to manage our plans and ourselves around the time available. Time management is a constant facilitation challenge.

Meeting and event space matters A meeting space must actively support your goals and plans for fully successful facilitation. Sometimes you won’t have options.  But where you do, these tips on what to watch for can help you avoid some of the toughest challenges.