by Anne | Mar 8, 2022 | Facilitation
Recently I found myself chatting with our local doctor recruitment coordinator, and that reminded me of a Design Thinking workshop our team at the Acadia Entrepreneurship Centre designed and ran for a local community:This local community had reached out to us wanting...
by Anne | Oct 15, 2021 | Facilitation
When the pandemic just started, I had just developed a new program that would teach Design Thinking and empathy-based innovation to local businesses – by helping them apply it to their own current challenges. Our team at the Acadia Entrepreneurship Centre was...
by Anne | Aug 20, 2021 | Facilitation, Meeting Planning
A two-hour meeting ends up running over three hours. You find that you’ve only addressed about half of what you had planned to. Some people are listening and on topic, others are on their phones or keep talking about unrelated things and carrying the whole group...
by Anne | Oct 23, 2017 | Facilitation
Consider this: You had a good meeting, you dealt with most agenda items, tasks were delegated, everyone goes off and…. nothing happens. …or this: It’s 10 minutes before the end time of the meeting; folks are starting to pack up, getting restless and the meeting...
by Anne | Sep 6, 2017 | Facilitation, Meeting Planning
Do you spend time in meetings that don’t end on time, don’t address all agenda items, or don’t get really good results? You can make your meetings more efficient and productive by adopting 6 simple planning steps. As with many things, a job well planned is a job half...
by Anne | Sep 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
I just came across this funny little video. A joking comment on simple things that can make a meating go completely off track. Do you recognize this, or some of it? I certainly do! The good news: it can be fixed – reach out, I’d love to help! Thanks to...
by Anne | Aug 17, 2016 | Facilitation
On Monday, I was invited by the Canadian Mental Health Association to facilitate a working meeting for The Spot – an evolving food community center in Kentville. With a mix of conversations with the entire group and conversations in smaller groups, participants...
by Anne | Jun 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
Today I had the honour to facilitate a brainstorming session for a new Slow Food Nova Scotia project at their AGM. We had very little time in a tight agenda, and we needed to hear ideas as well as concerns from the members. Sometimes groups will default into an open...
by Anne | Oct 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
“Why is it that some meetings bring life to your soul, while others leave you wishing you’d never stepped in the room?” That is a very good question – and patterns for group processes are a wonderful answer. The question holds true not only for...
by Anne | Oct 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
Playing the piano, singing opera and learning to play the guitar, I have long had a deep love for music. Yet I had never thought of it as a vehicle for supporting sustainable change… During our last ARC workshop, I learned that music has a new quality for me:...
