Resources to help you Level Up

Ebooks

eBook: Managing Dysfunction

Dysfunctional behavior in meetings can hinder productivity, but skilled facilitators know it often signals deeper issues. Our three-pronged approach—Conscious Prevention, Early Detection, and Clean Resolution—provides effective strategies for managing disruption ...

Checklists

The Facilitator’s Checklist for True Consensus Building

Navigating the turbulent waters of conflicting opinions in a meeting can be challenging, but with the right approach, you can steer your team toward consensus. Fill out the form below ...

Checklists

Checklist: Interviewing the Project Sponsor

14 Critical Questions to Ask the Project Sponsor Like every great consultant or project manager, your goal is to successfully meet your client’s needs. Your first step is to understand ...

Ebooks

eBook: How to Monitor Your Plan

Transforming a strategic plan from paper to action is a challenge that many organizations struggle to overcome. If your organization has experienced the disappointment of plans losing momentum, you’re not ...

Ebooks

eBook: 4 Components of Strategic Planning: An Essential Guide to Strategy

Creating an effective strategic plan for your organization can be challenging, but with a focused and scalable approach, it’s entirely achievable. Different models may work for various organizations, yet every ...

Whitepapers

Whitepaper: The 4 Pitfalls of Executing a Strategy: Why Most Plans Fail

The 4 Pitfalls of Executing a Strategy: Why Most Plans Fail Why do most plans fail? Why is it so hard to get a plan executed? While there are a ...

Checklists

Checklist: 4 Strategic Questions to Ask Your Team

  Strategic planning is crucial for successful development, and proper preparation is key to ensure your team is ready. Is your team prepared for effective strategic planning? Before diving into ...

Ebooks

eBook: Your Guide to Being a Facili-Trainer

Transform your training sessions from ordinary to extraordinary with the facili-training approach. Our free eBook, “Your Guide to Being a Facili-Trainer,” reveals the secrets to: • Boosting participant engagement • ...

Ebooks

eBook: 10 Principles of Facilitation

Engage groups  |  Manage dysfunction  |  Achieve buy-in A facilitated session is a structured meeting where a facilitator guides participants through specific steps to achieve a collective outcome that everyone ...

Other

Quick Start Guide: Preparing & Agenda Setting

Do you have a big meeting coming up? Are these questions causing you to panic? How do I prepare for this group meeting? How do I create the right agenda? ...

Whitepapers

White Paper: The Cost of Wasted Meetings

What if over 75% of your organization was spending time on unproductive “work” during business hours? Ouch. Surely, not in your organization, right? Take that scary, hypothetical notion and consider how ...

Articles

Developing a Mission Statement

By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Adapted from our two-day course, Strategic Planning for Governments and Non-Profit   Most of us have been through the laborious process ...