Due to scheduling conflicts the April meeting has been moved to Wednesday April 21, 2010! Please register at: http://aplnhouston20100415.eventbrite.com/ Facilitation Patterns and Antipatterns  Facilitation skills are essential for anyone. In fact, everyone facilitates whether
they know it or not! Do you work on a team, manage an organization, or
otherwise work with others? The opportunity to facilitate will come up.
Steven “Doc” List will lead you to explore the common patterns & antipatterns
that come up in facilitation, for the facilitator and the participants. We'll have
some fun by taking on roles, and exploring the behaviors that work and that don't
work. The session will include some time on specific activities and techniques
that can be used for effective facilitation.
Process/Mechanics The first third of the session will be a short presentation about the fundamentals
of facilitation and an introduction to Doc's Patterns and Antipatterns work.
The next third of the session will be spent in discussion/interaction. Attendees will
be grouped randomly, and each group will hold a discussion. Before the
discussion, each group member will be given a pattern/antipattern to represent,
and they will be expected to behave as their pattern/antipattern in terms of motto,
beliefs, behaviors, and characteristics. The rest of each small group will then be
encouraged to identify each other group member's pattern/antipattern by name at
the end of the discussion. Two discussion rounds will be held, with each group member being assigned two
patterns/antipatterns in the second round.
This will be followed by large group discussion, specific stories of experience,
and/or with discussion of how to deal with, encourage, discourage, or otherwise
address that pattern/antipattern, whether exhibited by self (facilitator) or
participant. The remaining time will be spent reviewing specific activities that can be used
and how they apply. Sources will include Agile Retrospectives by Diana Larsen
and Esther Derby and Collaboration Explained by Jean Tabaka. Steven “Doc” List (generally known as Doc) is currently a principal consultant
with ThoughtWorks, a highly respected international technology consulting
company. Doc's focus is on organizational transformation and agile adoption,
including coaching, assessment, and training.  Doc is an experienced software technology professional with a career spanning
three decades. Doc has worked on all types of hardware and operating systems,
multiple languages and environments. Doc maintains a long-term focus on the
core skills and strategies of management, leadership, team-building, and
individual growth, and is an experienced presenter and public speaker, business
and agile coach, and trainer and workshop leader. Doc is also a recognized
expert Open Space facilitator.
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