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Collaborative Decision Making – Facilitating Productive Project Workshops

by Sandra MacGillivray | May 10, 2022 | Other, Facilitation

How frequently do you leave a collaborative workshop or meeting feeling frustrated that nothing was really accomplished?  There may have been a lot of great discussions, but people kept going off on tangents.  Maybe too many ideas were proposed, and it was impossible...
Guidelines for Collaborative Hybrid Meetings

Guidelines for Collaborative Hybrid Meetings

by Sandra MacGillivray | Mar 29, 2022 | Other, Facilitation

As businesses transition back to in-office work, a shift to hybrid meetings is underway, where some people attend in person and others attend virtually. For larger and more complex facilitated workshops that require strong participant engagement and collaboration such...

Key Facilitation Techniques for Leading Capital Project Workshops

by Sandra MacGillivray | Mar 10, 2022 | Other, Facilitation

A common misconception around strong facilitators is that they were born with the skills necessary to facilitate productive workshops. The ability to guide a group to reach a conclusion is ultimately achieved through the understanding and practice of core facilitation...
Facilitation Techniques for Capital Project Workshops – Using Polls

Facilitation Techniques for Capital Project Workshops – Using Polls

by Sandra MacGillivray | Feb 2, 2022 | Other, Facilitation

Do you find it challenging to keep meeting participants actively engaged and ensure you have buy-in for decisions being made in meetings? Often, when a few people are driving a discussion it can be difficult to gauge whether “the silence” in the meeting...

How the Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) Benefits your Role in the Project

by Sandra MacGillivray | Jan 21, 2022 | PDRI

Everyone benefits from a well-defined project, and it takes many people to do a project well. In this post, I will explain how you benefit from participating in a PDRI session based on your role within the project/organization. It is important to understand how each...
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