Facilitation Can Be like Riding a Bike down a Busy City Street

A room that we facilitate is as unpredictable as any street.

Jacinta Cubis2 December 2019collaborability, collaborate, collaboration, collaborative skills, soft skills, stakeholder engagement, groupwork, facilitate, facilitation Comments

Conversations Count

Doctors heal, teachers help people learn and scientists solve riddles.

What difference do facilitators make?

Jacinta Cubis22 November 2019collaborability, collaborate, collaboration, collaborative skills, soft skills, stakeholder engagement, groupwork, facilitate, facilitationComment

Warm up Your Collaborative Muscles

If you think of collaborative skills as muscles, then it follows that they need a little warming up before a get together of your project team or partners.

Jacinta Cubis18 November 2019collaborability, collaborate, collaboration, collaborative skills, soft skills, stakeholder engagement, groupwork, facilitate, facilitation, facilitographyComment

What’s one of the most useful tools to start noticing better?

Something we use - a lot - every day can help us hone our noticing and observation skills.

Jacinta Cubis11 November 2019collaborability, collaborate, collaboration, collaborative skills, soft skills, stakeholder engagement, groupwork, facilitate, facilitation, facilitographyComment

Taste of My Own Medicine

Last week, I had to take a dose of my own medicine. I'm afraid I leave my ‘collaborability’ at the door of the Annual General Meeting of our owners corporation every year.

Jacinta Cubis4 November 2019collaborability, collaborate, collaboration, collaborative skills, soft skills, stakeholder engagement, groupwork, facilitate, facilitation, facilitographyComment

Creatures of Habit

Towards the end of my workshops I ask people what collaborative habit they’d like to build.

It’s a helpful way to recap on the skills we’ve explored and practised. Checking in with them a few weeks later, and then a few months after that, helps to keep this skill front of mind.

Practice does make better.