MbN: Our Favorite Facilitation Things by Anne Desmarais

Focused Conversation/ORID

annedesmarais — 2025-03-25 21:37:51 UTC

My most used facilitation tool! (Next to sticky notes :))

Mural

2025-03-26 19:46:35 UTC

I've worked with facilitators that have used Mural as a virtual whiteboard.

Love this

2025-03-26 19:46:39 UTC

What a great tool

Resources!

2025-03-26 19:46:42 UTC

Check out more facilitation resources and a facilitation self-assesesment at the Course Notebook: https://www.partnership-academy.net/training/managing-by-network/mbn-2025-notebook/

2025-03-26 19:46:42 UTC

Liberating Structures

2025-03-26 19:47:07 UTC

This is one of the best directories of facilitation methodologies available - I utilize this resource often!

2025-03-26 19:47:13 UTC

in person "voting" on various topics by dots

Shared spreadsheets

2025-03-26 19:47:30 UTC

(Exciting!)

Yehaa!

2025-03-26 19:47:37 UTC

WHIP around

2025-03-26 19:48:13 UTC

WHIP- without hesitation, invite participation

Meeting Planning

2025-03-26 19:48:22 UTC

Mural was a cool way to plan a huge regional meeting, but also all of the shared office tools or google documents

Meeting attendees where they're at

2025-03-26 19:48:47 UTC

I've always a appreciated a facilitator in multi-day meetings or trainings who can read the room, gauge energy levels, attention spans, etc. and pivot and/or revise the agenda or direction of the conversation

Low Stakes

2025-03-26 19:52:28 UTC

Provide polls, ways to submit anonyms answers.

ELMO: Enough, Let's Move On

annedesmarais — 2025-03-26 20:31:41 UTC

To help people stay on track and on time, can be a group agreement. - From Sandy

More facilitation tools in the Academy's resource library

2025-04-01 19:34:00 UTC