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The Four Archetypes of Self-Awareness

Internal self-awareness (understanding yourself and being in tune with your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours). External self-awareness (knowing your impact on others and how they view you).

How do you maintain control when facilitating meetings?

“What do you think are the common mistakes when facilitators think about control?”

Defining generations: Where Millennials end and Generation Z begins

For decades, Pew Research Center has been committed to measuring public attitudes on key issues and documenting differences in those attitudes across demographic groups. One lens often employed by researchers at the Center to understand these differences is that of generation.

How to keep going when the going gets tough?

On a cold (and cozy) Saturday morning, 19 people rolled out of beds to attend the first Community of Practice (CoP) held in 3 years at Facilitators Network Singapore (FNS).

Sociocracy For All: Providing the structure to build a better future

Best decisions are made when everyone’s voice is heard, it saves time, makes inclusive decisions and creates more human organizations.

Why do Facilitators need Certification?

Regarding facilitator ’s certification, the most frequently asked questions that we have encountered include:

What are the authoritative, international certifications available?

Why go for certification? What will certification bring?

What are the conditions and requirements for application?

What are the fees?

15 Smart Ways to ask ChatGPT questions to get Smarter Answers

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Why leaders should be the last to speak during meetings

For meetings to be effective and achieve their goals, employees should be encouraged to speak ahead of managers and leaders.

How do you assess your client’s needs for facilitation service?

This is the second of a six-part series on INIFAC competencies. In this series, John interviews experienced facilitators on their insights about the different competencies.

Your Presence as a Process Facilitator

Regardless of how long you have been facilitating, you would probably remember the first time you ever facilitated. Can you still remember what you felt on that day?

Reading the Room: A Conversation with Douglas O’Loughlin

As a process facilitator, reading a room can be one of the hardest things to do. When I first started facilitating focus group discussions, I struggled with understanding why participants weren’t as ready with answering. I would ask a question, and hear… crickets.

Becoming a more effective Process Facilitator: Key Lessons Learned from my Mistakes

Reflecting on my learning journey from school to tertiary level and into adult learning, I realize I have forgotten much of the academic and theoretical contents. Fortunately, certain valuable experiential lessons withstood the passing of time and have remained vividly etched in my mental compass. Kudos to wise teachers and trainers who have the gracious gumption to point out my weaknesses and mistakes rather than heaping praises that get me swell-headed.

Unlearning one’s way towards being a more effective Process Facilitator

Recently, I had the good fortune of completing the Advanced Facilitation Programme organised by the Institute for Adult Learning and led by Prabu Naidu and Janice Lua. At the Oral Assessment, I conveyed to Prabu and Janice how I marvel at the ingenuity of the diagrammatic depiction of the FNS (Facilitators Network Singapore) 4D Facilitation Model. Amazingly, beyond the key stages from D1 to D4, the model comprehensively and succinctly encapsulates the cornerstone, underlying precepts and navigational guideposts for effective process facilitation, all into a single diagram!

International Institute for Facilitation

We need your help! INIFAC is crafting a template RFP for facilitation services, and we will be sharing and promoting that template for clients who want to hire certified facilitators for work. Do you have any example RFP language you would like to share with us? We’d love to hear from you!

The CVF journey – how to be certified as a virtual facilitator

I remember the day I had to be certified as a virtual facilitator. I was scared.

So scared that I didn’t prepare. No, I didn’t know how to even prepare.

After all, all I had under my belt was just 2 virtual facilitation sessions of focus group discussions. Could I count myself as experienced enough to be certified?

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