Learn how to play your part in saving the world from millions of wasted hours in boring, poorly facilitated meetings!

Premise

Any participant in any group, at anytime, can commit a Random Act of Facilitation to clarify, focus, and increase the consciousness of any group. Many individuals, working independently will collectively create a healthier, sustainable future if they are willing to engage in the regular practice of Random Acts of Facilitation.

Please. Not another boring meeting!

Lets face it, the vast majority of meetings being held this moment, and those thousands more that will be held in the next hour, and every hour thereafter, ad infinitum, will be boring as hell, and a poor use of time. Why? Because they aren't being effectively facilitated. Your average participant doesn't figure they need a facilitator to help run a routine meeting. Right? After all, we've all been to hundreds of meetings. It's no big thing to hold a stupid meeting. Is it?

No you're absolutely right. It's easy to hold a "Stupid" meeting. Unfortunately, that's the way most of them turn out. And it's because few of us see the importance of "meeting process." This is America by God! This is the land of opportunity, of production. We're the land of independence. The land with the "can do" attitude. We know how to get things done here!

That's absolutely correct. We are great at getting things done. We are masters at producing. Where we now need a little help is on "how" we get things done. On our people processes.

Join the Random Acts of Facilitation Movement.

Each and everyone one of us who have sat through boring, non-productive, out of focus, "I'm wasting my time here" meetings can stop complaining and start doing something now!

I am calling on each and every one of you, no matter how low on the totem pole you might reside, to begin a personal campaign I'm calling, "Random acts of Facilitation." As a devotee of this movement, you are directed to begin asking questions about the meetings you're in. Questions that will invigorate and empower you and your peers. Here is your assignment, and I urge you to accept it:

- You will begin to see to it that a clear agenda is presented at the meeting. If it isn't, request that one be developed either in the moment or that the meeting disband and reconvene at a later time until one is prepared.

- If a meeting is begun among strangers without any introductions or simple acts of relating, you will speak out and suggest spending five minutes to go around the room and have people share something about themselves. After all, do you want to do business with total strangers when you don't have to?

- If someone is hogging the air time, you will speak up and thank them for their great input and suggest that others be heard from too.

- Long before you've been meeting for 3 hours straight without a break, with your eyeballs floating, you'll request a short recess to accommodate personal needs and to just stretch and rejuvenate yourselves.

- When the energy is so heavy in the room you feel like you're smothering, you will say something funny to make people laugh. The fog will lift, things will start moving again. You will risk being the "fool." People will thank you later.

- When someone suggests a valid action during the meeting without assigning a responsible party and completion date, you will jump in and suggest that it be assigned, without feeling obligated to take it on yourself.

- Trust your intuition. When something feels "off," say so. You don't have to have all the answers. Just know that your intuition never lies and if you feel something, others may as well. Your courage will inspire others to speak. The collective unspoken, given voice, will bring previously undiscovered wisdom, knowledge, and energy into the room. Great things will happen. Can you handle that?

That's it. You've got your marching orders. You can do this! I have faith in you. Now go forth and boldly go where no lowly meeting participant has gone before. Into the mysterious and powerful universe of group synergy, where there's a surprise around every corner. Where magic happens! Bless you my fellow change miesters.

Random Acts of Facilitation, 5-Day Teleclass

This class meets for five consecutive weekdays to cover over 25 facilitative actions you can take to empower and move groups forward. This course is for beginning facilitators or group members that simply want to know more about facilitation so that they can make the groups they are a part of more effective. Click here for details. Click here for testimonials.

Self-Guided 5-Day Real Audio Version

If you'd like to learn this material at your own pace and on your own schedule, you can purchase the real audio version of this teleclass complete with the learning guide. You'll be provided with access to three separate recorded offerings of this five-hour class (15 hours total) that you can listen to online and follow along in the learning guide is used in the live class. Click here to purchase for $79.00. We will also include a free copy of the Portable Article Bank ($29 value) with your purchase. We offer a 100%-satisfaction-guaranteed guarantee.

Free Weekly Ezine for Facilitators

The Master Facilitator Journal presents tools, tips, and skills to support anyone who works with groups. Visit www.masterfacilitatorjournal.com to subscribe or view past issues and other resources. This ezine is visually appealing and easy to read, with a consise focus each week that includes real world examples and keys to applying each skill. Read by trainers, coaches, consultants, teachers, leaders, and facilitators, it not only offers content they can use in their presentations and training, but it also addresses the "inner game" of facilitation to support their own personal and professional growth.