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 | 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...
