Fearless Facilitation Blog

Avoid online meeting fatigue: 5 top tips for productive online meetings

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Planning and facilitating productive meetings can be challenging at the best of times – creating and sticking to an effective agenda whilst managing disruptions, different levels of engagement and personality traits. During the current time of lockdown and remote working, hundreds are finding that successfully facilitating meetings can be so much harder through a laptop camera, without the obvious visual cues and face to face team dynamics!

Why Facilitation is working for Farming

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At Fearless Facilitation we have worked closely with farmers and in particular in the development of facilitation models they have used in knowledge transfer within farming discussion groups to great effect. Facilitation is so relevant to the current challenges and opportunities facing the UK farming industry.

What people say about the Fearless Facilitation Masterclass

Following another round of hugely successful Fearless Facilitation masterclasses across the UK we wanted to share with you what people have said about our 1 day fast track to fearless facilitation and just why businesses are loving the programme. We love seeing attendees being empowered and able to take so much away from the programme. So it is great to hear their feedback and how the masterclasses help them in their roles.

I still live and die by some of the principles/models I learned from you - Director of sales, Swarovski

What is Facilitation and why is it important?

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You may not know it, but facilitation techniques are in use around you everyday – in successful business leadership, project management, change and people management, emotional intelligence, development, training and even your personal life.

The Top 5 Skills Professionals need for High Performance

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At the start of the year the Financial Times published research, expert commentary and leadership insights that identified the '5 essential skills to succeed'. The focus is on how individuals and leaders can keep themselves competitive and at the top of their game as businesses enter a new decade.

The Top 3 Warning Signs that you might need Facilitation Skills

Whether you regularly lead meetings and projects or you are new to taking the lead, most of people have experienced one, or all of these challenges in meetings, team projects or any time where we’re working with others to a common goal.

How to have successful meetings

Meetings have got themselves a bad reputation over the years. With a 2018 study finding that the average employee claims to waste nearly 13 working days every year in ‘unproductive’ meetings, it is easy to see why we take such a dim view of them when they pop up in our diary.