by SharonSpeaks | Oct 18, 2018 | Meeting Facilitation
Groups learn best when they are having fun. One of my favorite exercises to facilitate with groups is Team Juggling. All you need is the space to circle up and 3-8 Koosh balls or other soft round objects. In this video I describe how Team Juggling works. I recently...
by SharonSpeaks | Sep 28, 2018 | Leadership, Meeting Facilitation
Do you lead staff meetings? Good news! I am offering 5 free webinars to help you plan and lead more productive staff meetings. Hopefully you can join me live for at least one of the webinars. Each webinar will be recorded, so even if you can’t join me live,...
by SharonSpeaks | Sep 27, 2018 | Meeting Facilitation
Do you have an annual event that has gotten stale? Or are you doing a promotion and want to go beyond the usual flier and email campaign? I have had great luck with a simple technique based on random word association. Try this at your next meeting with your group: Ask...
by SharonSpeaks | Sep 18, 2018 | Leadership, Meeting Facilitation
Sharing news is hard. Maybe the news isn’t good. What will your staff think? How will they react? Maybe the news is not bad, it’s just change… but people often freak out when they face change. If you need to share news with your staff, I strongly suggest...
by SharonSpeaks | Sep 10, 2018 | Leadership, Meeting Facilitation
Do you ever get overwhelmed by all the possible directions you could go in with your team? In my last job we faced a crisis. Our program had been funded by one large federal grant, and we had just been informed that we were being cut by 54%. We then learned that the...
by SharonSpeaks | Sep 6, 2018 | Meeting Facilitation
When I was building the 3 Steps to Energize Your Team With Better Staff Meetings Toolkit, I used a creative thinking exercise to put myself in the shoes of a staff meeting. Not to imagine myself AT a staff meeting, but to actually imagine that I AM a staff meeting....