In their virtual shoes

You might not be able to see participants’ shoes when you’re facilitating online, but you’ve still got to remember to put yourself in them.

Jacinta Cubis30 March 2020collaborability, collaborate, collaboration, collaborative skills, soft skills, stakeholder engagement, groupwork, facilitate, facilitationComment

Work with what you’ve got

If you had to pare back to the essentials for your work, what would you need?

Jacinta Cubis23 March 2020collaborability, collaborate, collaboration, collaborative skills, soft skills, stakeholder engagement, groupwork, facilitate, facilitationComment

Mine the gold in groups

The combination of good questions and street photography can mine gold from a group.

Jacinta Cubis16 March 2020collaborability, collaborate, collaboration, collaborative skills, soft skills, stakeholder engagement, groupwork, facilitate, facilitationComment

Visual complacency

How well do you think you know your city? Familiarity doesn’t breed contempt in this context, but it might foster a little complacency.

Jacinta Cubis8 March 2020collaborability, collaborate, collaboration, collaborative skills, soft skills, stakeholder engagement, groupwork, facilitate, facilitationComment

Mix it up: cognitive and visual diversity

Cognitive diversity is vital if groups have any chance of solving complex problems.

But it’s hard enough attracting people of varied ages, cultures and backgrounds to community consultations.

How do we ensure cognitive diversity? Maybe visual diversity holds a clue.

Jacinta Cubis2 March 2020collaborability, collaborate, collaboration, collaborative skills, soft skills, stakeholder engagement, groupwork, facilitate, facilitationComment

Show what you think

The biggest breakthrough for a mentoring client last week was changing the question he usually puts to groups from ‘what do you think?’ to ‘how do you see it?’.

Jacinta Cubis24 February 2020collaborability, collaborate, collaboration, collaborative skills, soft skills, stakeholder engagement, groupwork, facilitate, facilitationComment

Picture perfect

What’s your preference as a facilitator? Do you think you facilitate like a package tourist or a street photographer?

Jacinta Cubis16 February 2020collaborability, collaborate, collaboration, collaborative skills, soft skills, stakeholder engagement, groupwork, facilitate, facilitationComment

Experience design

When you’re designing an experience, make the time to experience the design.

Jacinta Cubis10 February 2020collaborability, collaborate, collaboration, collaborative skills, soft skills, stakeholder engagement, groupwork, facilitate, facilitationComment

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