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Template: Train-the-Trainer Agenda
Expand your reach by teaching others how to be trainers for your program, system or service. Here are our tips and a planning template to get you started.
Meeting Activity: Getting Unstuck in Your Leadership
As part of a team meeting, leadership retreat or board meeting, use this activity to help your people get unstuck.
Break Out of The Rut: An Activity for Your Next Team Retreat
If you are looking for ways to help your team break out of a rut, think more expansively and take creative risks, try this activity at your next team retreat.
How to Maximize Impact of Your Changemaking Efforts
When navigating cross-sector systems change work that centers young people, how do you maximize your efforts and wisely invest your time, talent and funding? Here’s our time tested model and some solid do’s and don’ts.
Ways to Give Yourself Some Space [Updated!]
In the hustle-bustle of leading youth focused work, you are taking care of everyone else. Who takes care of you? It has to be you. Here’s how.
5 Coaching Tips for Leader-Facilitators
As a leader-facilitator of capacity building efforts, you are constantly coaching. You are supporting and learning from others just all the time. Be a guide by the side, not a sage on the stage. Here are some tips to embrace that role.
6 Capacities for Change-Makers to Ignite Your Leadership Potential
As leader-facilitators who work to change the world for the better, you are often focused on developing others' capacity. But what about your own? Here are six capacities, innate abilities you already have and can strengthen to better support your work in the world.
5 Ways to Prepare for Workshops or Meetings Filled with Possibility
You may be new to facilitating groups or ready for a refresh. As a leader, as a facilitator, you want to create a space that allows for participants to bring their sense of possibility. This starts with your own preparation. Ideally, begin preparing for a workshop or meeting several weeks in advance. This gives you time to read through the workshop materials, practice, and prepare materials and supplies. Here are some key tips to get you on track.
5 Questions to Kick Off a Conversation of Possibility
Connecting with others is one way to open yourself to possibility. Not sure where to begin when you meet new people at in-person conferences, meetings or networking events? Here are some starting points.
5 Essential Strategies for Facilitating Discussions in Larger Groups
Facilitating discussions that elevate possibility is harder than it looks, but easier than it seems. Make sure you have these basics down—remember that *you* are mirroring and modeling with your participants the ways you want them to work with their participants.
6 Facilitation Strategies to Encourage Participation in Larger Groups
Facilitating discussions that bring forward what’s possible starts with you. You, as a leader, as a facilitator, invite participants to share their wisdom and experience. Based on our decades of facilitation, here are some easy ways to do that.
6 Strategies to Establish a Safe, Welcoming Virtual Meeting Space
As a leader-facilitator, welcoming spaces start with you. You need to enter the space with a sense of possibility so you can recognize it within co-participants. Even in virtual meeting environments, you can create a space of warmth and welcome. Use these practices as a check list to ensure a welcoming, community-focused, positive space.