Comments on: Getting Your Ducks in a Row–The Art of Facilitation http://blog.voiceproinc.com/getting-your-ducks-in-a-row-the-art-of-facilitation/ Communication Skills - Leadership Skills Wed, 18 May 2011 01:20:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Mike Mitchell http://blog.voiceproinc.com/getting-your-ducks-in-a-row-the-art-of-facilitation/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Mike Mitchell Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:27:05 +0000 http://blog.voiceproinc.com/?p=263#comment-46 Carolyn, Your guidelines to facilitate a meeting are spot-on. Listening skills are so important to making sure all facts are clearly stated and opinions are equally considered. The facilitator must also use strong leadership to calm escalating emotions, bring the conversation back on topic, or tactfully take back control of a meeting from a member who is monopolizing the discussion. Since a facilitator should be impartial, or at least be preceived so, I respectfully suggest that President Obama was not impartial. Therefore he was presiding over the healthcare summit rather than facilitating of the discussion. Good post, Mike Mitchell Carolyn,
Your guidelines to facilitate a meeting are spot-on. Listening skills are so important to making sure all facts are clearly stated and opinions are equally considered.

The facilitator must also use strong leadership to calm escalating emotions, bring the conversation back on topic, or tactfully take back control of a meeting from a member who is monopolizing the discussion.

Since a facilitator should be impartial, or at least be preceived so, I respectfully suggest that President Obama was not impartial. Therefore he was presiding over the healthcare summit rather than facilitating of the discussion.

Good post,

Mike Mitchell

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