What's in your facilitation toolkit? Mine includes markers, sticky notes, index cards, and flip chart paper. But wait, paper??? Yes. And, I'm not alone. Take for example my colleague Eugene Eric Kim who shares his facilitation toolkit which includes links to his favorite Post It notes and markers. David Lavenda wrote this excellent article in Fast Company about the history of the Post-It notes and their potential for becoming a killer innovation technology. It talks about the early … [Read more...]
Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits
As a trainer and now adjunct professor, I'm constantly working on and honing these skills sets: assessment, instructional design, curriculum/materials development, presenting, facilitation, and evaluation. There is a lot of learn and refine in each of these areas. And that's why I love teaching and training because it is all about the learning for both you and the participants. Over the last 25 years I've been doing training, I've learned different and applied different methods from … [Read more...]
GuideStar DonorEdge Learning Conference: Reflections from the Innovation Lab
In May, I was lucky enough to spend a few days with community foundations at the annual GuideStar DonorEdge Learning Conference. I gave a keynote about the Human Side of Data for Good and facilitated a mini-innovation lab to brainstorm creative ideas around the challenge of communicating about the value of shared data and becoming the community knowledge center for shared data for donors, nonprofits, and other stakeholders. The lab used human design facilitation techniques that I have been … [Read more...]
Nonprofit Innovation Toolkits: Methods To Invent, Adopt, and Adapt Ideas to Deliver Better Results
Lately, I've been obsessed with methods for facilitating innovation for nonprofits. It isn't a matter of facilitation techniques, but process design. The field of innovation practitioners, whether in corporate labs or working in social good sector, comes with lots of tool kits that offer different ways to help groups think of new ideas and prioritize them. My colleagues at the Mobilisation Lab recently shared a link to an excellent tool kit called DYI which stands for "Development, … [Read more...]
Methods for Facilitating Innovation in Nonprofits
Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute, and a Jedi Master. The co-facilitator was Amy Hedrick who works in Product and Design Innovation at Intuit. The curriculum was based on their “Innovating for Peopledesign methods recipe book and "taxonomy for … [Read more...]
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