The Art of Facilitative Leadership (article featured in The Systems Thinker) lists the capacities of facilitative leaders. These competencies coincide with effective group facilitation skills.
- Active listening skills including paraphrasing, summarizing, reflecting, and questioning
- Generate participative discussion in groups
- Stimulate creative thinking through brainstorming and other idea-generation processes
- Contrast perspectives and options that might result in group conflict with individuals without taking control of the situation
- Seek out others’ opinions in an objective and non-judgmental manner
- Shape more powerful and strategic questions for exploration
- and much more….
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