Doc List on Facilitation

Steven ‘Doc’ List 35 years in software development, business owner, facilitator, agile coach   Team and People technical practices take you so far Teams that work well together more productive Learn how a team collaborates by observing choice of words indicate culture and mindset   Red Flags  Difference between facilitated and run meetings should be multidirectional, conversation — purpose, learning we’re all in this together, how do we all contribute   Facilitation Antipatterns Gladiator, Benevolent Dictator, Superhero champion - great deal of responsibility for success or failure nice people in bad positions culture of blame, a culture of fault, a culture of heroism    Role of Coaches coaches role is teaching rather than wrong/bad, asking questions telling is not a good way for influence balance guidance, question and strong suggestion take it to the team   Help the Disenfranchised stickies on the wall give people tools/ways to democratize the process Agile Retrospectives  (http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Retrospectives-Making-Pragmatic-Programmers-ebook/dp/B00B03SRJW/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406827093&sr=1-1&keywords=Agile+Retrospectives) I don’t know why it works, but it does so I’m going to do it again!   Language Matters interpretation of behaviors cause problems communication is a dance Non-Violent Communication Crucial Conversations (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071446524?ie=UTF8&tag=athought-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0071446524) Ask yourself, why would a rational, reasonable, decent human being do that?   Dangerous Words “can’t” “made” “feel” “should” Superteams (http://www.amazon.com/Superteams-How-Take-Your-Team/dp/0670921483)   Practice think about your words judgements are not feelings make an effort to make a change   Contact Doc List https://twitter.com/athought His Recommending Reading http://www.doclist.me/reading/ Check out his blog (http://www.doclist.me/) for more about patterns and anti patterns