Month: March 2023

Facilitate Active Listening with a staff team

barbara pedersen Belonging, consulting, Conversation, design, Dialogue, Discussion, Diversity, Equity, facilitation, Fun, Inclusion, intersectionality, listening, strategic planning, Talking, team building, team work
Two people standing and facing each other. One is talking and gesturing and one is listening intently.

In a recent team building session with a staff team, I spontaneously facilitated an Active Listening technique as a group activity to help the participants enhance their communication skills. I usually use Active Listening with individuals talking in pairs. In

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Facilitating communication skills with Listening Quotes

barbara pedersen collaboration, consulting, Conversation, design, Dialogue, facilitation, Fun, in-person facilitation, Inclusion, lessons, listening, online facilitation, Planning, process, reading, silence, Simplicity, strategic planning, Talking, team building, team work, virtual, virtual facilitation, Visual facilitation
A list of ten quotes about listening.

I recently facilitated a session with a staff team to help them learn, practice, and apply communication skills. I am sharing some of the techniques I used and to which participants responded enthusiastically. This post is about listening quotes; my

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Facilitation magic!

barbara pedersen Belonging, consulting, Conversation, design, Dialogue, Discussion, Diversity, facilitation, in-person facilitation, Inclusion, listening, Planning, process, strategic planning
Facilitation magic!

I am stoked, excited, happy, satisfied. Yesterday, I experienced the magic of facilitating an in-person session and an online session. I facilitate many sessions in these “venues” yet having these two events back-to-back intensified the comparison of what worked, and

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