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Higher Quality Decisions with Focus on 'What' is Right, NOT 'Who' is Right

Higher Quality Decisions with Focus on ‘What’ is Right, NOT ‘Who’ is Right

Decision making frequently includes fuzzy information, fuzzy implication, and fuzzy thinking.  To reduce fuzziness, and improve the quality of your decision making, drive your group to focus on What is right, NOT Who is right.  By structuring your inquiry and methodology, you help minimize the risk of decisions made that may not be more than educated gambles.

Fuzzy – Focus on What is Right, NOT…

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How to Use the Principles of Agile’s Daily Stand-Up in Your Staff Meetings

How to Use the Principles of Agile’s Daily Stand-Up in Your Staff Meetings

There are good meetings and there are long meetings but there aren’t many good, long meetings. The Agile Methodology that encourages self-evolving teams depends on a daily stand-up meeting. Strictly time-boxed to fifteen minutes duration, the daily stand-up may also be called a morning roll-call, daily huddle, or a daily scrum. You can use the methodology of a daily stand-up to dramatically…

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Scrum’s Evidence-based Methodology Improves the Agility of Your Group

Scrum’s Evidence-based Methodology Improves the Agility of Your Group

Our alumni understand that leadership and facilitation are simpler and easier than developing the optimal methodology.  Consider Scrum’s Evidence-Based Management for Software Organizations (EBMgt™)[1] that measures value to improve your organizational agility. The EBMgt approach enables software organizations and groups to make rational, fact-based decisions, elevating conversations from…

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Three Behaviors Guaranteed To Improve Your Ability to Build Consensus

Three Behaviors Guaranteed To Improve Your Ability to Build Consensus

Structured Leadership, Facilitation, and Methodology: How to Build Consensus

Meetings capture a huge investment of time.  Unproductive meetings affect your cash flow, morale, and potential growth of your biggest asset, your people.  As frequent and important as we attend meetings, little (if any) structured training has been provided to help us become better meeting participants, and more…

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Five Compelling Business Reasons To Use Structured Facilitation Sessions

Five Compelling Business Reasons To Use Structured Facilitation Sessions

  The most important action you take every day is to make choices–to decide.  Your productivity amplifies when your decisions are optimal.  Therefore, choose wisely when to work alone, speak with another person, or call for a meeting.  Here are five compelling reasons for when to use structured facilitation sessions:

Structured Facilitation Sessions

The advantages to structured facilitation,…

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17 Challenging Personality Types and How To Manage Them to Avoid Problem Meetings

17 Challenging Personality Types and How To Manage Them to Avoid Problem Meetings

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Always empower your participants but learn to control challenging personality types to avoid problem meetings, problems with meetings, and problems in meetings.  The deliverable or decision is theirs, not yours.  Remember to manage politics by removing ideas from the individual participant and turning it over to the entire group.  It’s not WHO is right, rather…

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MG RUSH FAST Certified, Professional, Endorsed Facilitators are Helping to Solve World Problems

MG RUSH FAST Certified, Professional, Endorsed Facilitators are Helping to Solve World Problems

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Endorsed Facilitators

FAST certified, professional facilitators are truly special. Thousands of alumni have earned promotions to executive positions, directorships, and C-level responsibility. FASTfacilitators lead groups ranging from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to greenfield initiatives about the genetic bar-coding of zebra meat to prevent illegal poaching.…

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"The New Science of Teamwork" Provides Dated Yet Valid News for Facilitators

“The New Science of Teamwork” Provides Dated Yet Valid News for Facilitators

The lead article in March-April (2017) Harvard Business Review reads like a promotion for our FAST Professional Leadership, Facilitation, and Methodology training.  The principle recommendations in Johnson and Christfort’s article, The New Science of Teamwork,have been a mainstay in our curriculum for over ten years now.  With the research they amassed to support their thesis, our curriculum has…

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