I think I might be ready to to put that facilitation course together after all. You may recall a post from the end of last year where I helped design one of the best courses on facilitation I have ever seen with Laura Burke, called A Culture of Great Meetings. I have a client with a group of new scrum masters and managers that would really like to increase their skill at facilitation. So I am going to reframe the course with some of my own ideas and rebuild a workshop on facilitation from the ground up.
In Laura’s course, she had a really nice reflection page at the end of the workbook where I jotted down some notes. Here I hoped to move from the land of good intentions to the realm of action.
Let’s see what I wrote down:
What I will bring back to my organization:
These are the meetings I’m targeting improving:
- Quarterly planning
- my core team meetings
- product planning
As a participant, I will make meetings great by:
- having a clear purpose and agenda
- helping bring other voices in
- helping develop and hold people accountable to purpose and agenda
(I added this one) As a facilitator, I will make meetings great by:
- manage conflict
- use PPGP for articulating plan, but be responsive
- leave room to close properly
As a meeting owner, I will make meetings great by:
- recognizing which level of delegation I am granting
- developing a communication plan to share out
- creating a mechanism to hold people accountable for action items (I would like to change this to say “an environment where the group to holds each other accountable”)
So, what now?
Well, I suppose I should get to work building out a workshop. But I don’t just want to develop and then deliver all of this great content. I really believe this client wants to change their culture around meetings. I would like to have a hand in that.
Let’s start with the workshop, and the conversations we will have there. Then I can co-create some ways with this team to influence the rest of the org.
Until the Next Iteration . . .
Jason