MSU Extension Facilitation

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  Facilitation

  A facilitator is someone who helps a group of people understand common objectives and assists in planning and achieving objectives without taking a position in the discussion. Facilitators can help those groups come to a consensus on their best ideas.

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• What makes a really good meeting?

  Published on December 31, 2013
  A strategic board agenda can make the fundamental difference between having a highly successful board meeting and wasting an opportunity to get things done.

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  Gradients of Agreement can help move groups forward

  Published on December 12, 2018
  Gradients of Agreement is a consensus tool that has the ability to allow groups to move forward.

• Community gardens can remain active even when gardening is not

  Published on November 7, 2013
  Facilitating effective workshops helps to engage gardeners through learning experiences. Learning experiences both enable and energize participants leading to a higher level of dedication and inspiration in your organization.

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  Do you have an affinity for SILENT sticky wall brainstorming? Part 2

  Published on December 30, 2014
  The silent sticky wall is a useful tool to engage quiet members during a brainstorming session.

• I appeal

  Published on September 30, 2015
  An often forgotten motion can help the meeting chair.

• How to become a better presenter: Part 2

  Published on May 4, 2013
  Being a better presenter is easier than you think.

• Exercise at work: Is it possible and what are the benefits?

  Published on August 25, 2014
  Small changes to an everyday routine at work can have major benefits when it comes to being healthy and improving work performance.

• Public comment at open meetings is frustrating the public

  Published on August 14, 2017
  Is there a better way?

• Test your assumptions with the Five Whys

  Published on November 26, 2014
  Get to the core of a problem by asking ‘why’ no fewer than five times.

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  Public hearing is not only way to involve the public

  Published on December 18, 2019
  There are many ways to effectively involve the public beyond the public hearing.

• Healthy meetings: Beverages

  Published on May 9, 2014
  When hosting or organizing a meeting, water is the best beverage to serve.

• How gentle volunteer recruitment efforts can yield astonishing results

  Published on September 11, 2017
  Employ “paying it forward” in outreach efforts to stimulate organizational growth.

• Engaging the public in local government decisions: Collaborate

  Published on September 5, 2017
  How can government better engaged the public in decision-making processes?

• Steps to building a successful team: Part 4

  Published on October 17, 2013
  The fourth step: embracing accountability.

• Initiators, critics and go-betweens

  Published on December 16, 2014
  Balancing informal roles to make meetings work.

• Effectively share your message with those who are hard-of-hearing

  Published on July 5, 2012
  When speaking publicly, consider these twelve tips to better communicate with the hard-of-hearing, deaf and deaf-blind.

• “Mission” and “vision:” explore the difference

  Published on May 8, 2012
  Understanding the difference between mission and vision is critical to the formation of a goal, group or project.

• Work through difficult decision-making with compromise

  Published on December 31, 2013
  Compromise can be vital to success, especially when conflict has rendered efforts stagnant. While agreeing to a compromise can take some time and effort and may be difficult to accept, doing so often is the only viable path to success.

• Breaking the cycle of grant funding dependency in economic development

  Published on December 8, 2015
  Economic development efforts that rely on grant funding to sustain their operations should proactively take steps to reduce their dependency through risk sharing.

• Industry, government, and MSU Extension collaborate on improving brownfield regulation

  Published on March 27, 2012
  Michigan’s cities contain thousands of contaminated properties awaiting clean-up and redevelopment. Multiple factors have stalled numerous clean-ups and left redevelopment in limbo.