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This powerpoint presentation was used at our January 2014 PINs workshop "The Power of Facilitated Networking" with Tammy Neilson from Creating Realities.
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The Power of Facilitated Networking Presented by Tammy Neilson, Creating Realities
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"Technology of relationships” - If you hold as
true that each interaction with another human being
is an opportunity for authentic engagement or
relationship, that interaction is enhanced.
Craig and Patricia Neal- The Art of Convening
Workshop Objectives:
S To explore the difference between facilitating a meeting and
convening a gathering
S To understand how to design and host a powerful
membership meeting that facilitates connection
S To practice designing an event from start to finish!
S To walk away feeling inspired and ready to lead effective
and dynamic association meetings
Workshop Agenda:
10:10-10:45 Welcome & Overview
10:45-11:30 Facilitation 101
11:30-12:00 Convening Wheel & Process
12:00-1:00 Lunch & Networking
1:00-1:30 Tools in Action
1:30-2:30 Live Demo
2:30-3:00 Integration
Connecting:
• Introduce yourself to your
partner
• Share what questions you
have around facilitated
networking with your
partner
• Rotate to a new partner &
repeat
• Last time, rotate, repeat &
write down the questions!
Facilitation 101
What is a facilitator?
Someone who uses some level of intuitive or explicit knowledge of group processes:
S to formulate and deliver a formal or informal process
S to ensure effective and productive meeting dynamics
S to allow participants to focus on content
Facilitation 101
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S to match the design with the intended outcome
S to help a group achieve what they want or need to do
S to help a group get where they want or need to go
S to help ensure a safe and welcoming environment for all participants
Why do we need facilitators?
S To ensure a range of possibilities are explored
S To stay on task
S To allow full participation by everyone
S To ensure neutrality
S To build cohesiveness
S To stimulate creativity
S To deliver on desired outcomes
3 basic facilitation principles:
#1:
S A facilitator is a guide to help people move through a
process together, not the seat of wisdom and
knowledge. That means a facilitator isn't there to give
opinions, but to draw out opinions and ideas of the
group members.
3 basic facilitation principles:
#2:
S Facilitation focuses on how people participate in the
process of learning or planning, not just on what gets
achieved
3 basic facilitation principles:
#3:
S A facilitator is neutral and never takes sides
Leaders today!
“One way to encapsulate the
leadership required to create an
alternative future is to consider
the leader as primarily a
convener—not leader as special
person, but leader as a citizen,
sometimes with legitimate
power, willing to do those things
that can initiate something new
in the world.”
Quote by Peter Block
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Convening Wheel From the book Art of Convening
by Craig and Patricia Neal
www.heartlandcircle.blogs.com
9 Aspects of Convening:
1. At the Heart of the Matter – What is important to your
association members?
2. Clarifying Intent – What is the purpose of your gathering? Why are
you asking your members to come?
3. The Invitation – What are your offering? How can your
members engage?
9 Aspects of Convening:
4. Setting Context – What do you need to tell your members about the
gathering, the process and purpose?
5. Creating the Container – What process, design and space do you
need to achieve your gathering intentions?
6. Hearing All the Voices – What design or process can you utilize as
a convener to make sure everyone is heard?
9 Aspects of Convening:
6. Essential Conversation – What questions can you ask to offer
meaningful engagement and exchange?
7. Creation – What do you need to let go of to allow new ideas,
creations and relationships to emerge?
8. Commitment to Action – What actions are your members leaving
committed to or investing in?
Powerful Questions!!!
Key to any good convening is the art of asking powerful questions.
Please use the following resources to expand your convening
question;
1. http://www.thecoaches.com/docs/resources/toolkit/pdfs/31-
Powerful-Questions.pdf
2. http://www.javeriana.edu.co/decisiones/PowerfulQuestions.PD
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Facilitating vs. Convening
Facilitating
S Understanding the goals of the
meeting and the organization
S Keeping the group on the agenda
and moving forward
S Involving everyone in the
meeting, including drawing out
the quiet participants and
controlling the domineering ones
S Making sure that decisions are
made democratically
Convening S Convening is the art and science of
gathering and holding people for the sake of the best possible outcome
S Convening, or "technology of relationships," delivers a practical and essential methodology for transformational engagements.
S Convened gatherings enhances and maximizes business and organizational performance by strengthening relationships, buy-in, accountability and commitment
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World Café By the World Café Community Foundation
www.theworldcafe.com
Sociometry
S Sociometry is a quantitative method for measuring social
relationships. It was developed by Jacob Moreno Jacob in his
studies of the relationship between social structures and
psychological well-being.
S Sociometry is defined as "the inquiry into the evolution and
organization of groups and the position of individuals
within them. Sociometric explorations reveal the hidden
structures that give a group its form: the alliances, the
subgroups, the hidden beliefs, the forbidden agendas, the
ideological agreements, the ‘stars’ of the show."
Action Mapping
Tools for unpacking connections within your memberships:
A. Mapping – laying out of the floor different responses to a
relevant question. E.g. which companies are represented in
the room or what roles within health care do we represent?
B. Continuum – laying out any question that can be measured
on a continuum. E.g. history within the association, one
end is the beginning (2010) to present (2014)
Action Mapping
C. Four corners – using the four corners of a room to explore choices or needs amongst your members. E.g. support with career management (1-leads in my sector, 2-feedback on my CV, 3-information on trends, 4-interview preparation and always have in the centre of the room, other)
D. Circle – standing as a group in a circle, you can call out questions or needs one at a time. If members relate or have this need they can step in. E.g. challenge with understanding the culture within my organization.
Action Mapping
E. Stand beside– to explore previous connections in the room.
E.g. you can ask members to stand beside the person(s) in
the room they have an existing connection or relationships
with.
F. Strengths mapping – great for associations. Utilizing the
first mapping exercise to map out on the floor the needed
resources within your network. People can then go stand
on or between that which they can offer this association.
Group Demo Unpacking our learnings together
Step #1:
Choose one association to be
our demo
Step #2:
Walk through the convening
wheel to map out and plan a
members gathering
Step #3:
Share in our learnings and
integrate some of the tools
we explored today!
Taking it away!
1. What learning goals and
hopes did you come with
today?
2. What are you taking away
with you?
3. What is your first step after
today?