Steve Davis
MA, MS, CoachU Graduate, Licensed Coaching Clinic Facilitator, Certified Field Training Facilitator, Teacher of Ascension
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- Group Facilitation, Training, Cultivating Presence
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- This Meeting Sux: 12 Acts of Courage to Change Meetings for Good
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- Author, Trainer, Infopreneur, Speaker
Steve Davis, M.A., M.S., is a Facilitator's Coach, Infoprenuer, and free-lance human with an eclectic background which includes stints in corporate management, engineering, teaching, spiritual psychology, and wellness. He started FacilitatorU.com in 2002, a virtual university that offers "Just In Time" tools, training, and resources.
Steve helps facilitators, speakers, leaders, educators, trainers, coaches and consultants present themselves confidently, empower as well as inspire their audiences, access their creativity, empower their under-performing groups, enhance their facilitation skills, and build their business online and offline. He’s been writing and publishing his weekly ezine for group leaders, the Master Facilitator journal since 2001 read by over 5,000 people in nearly 100 countries.
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This Meeting Sux! 12 Acts of Courage to Change Meetings for Good
Lets face it, most meetings being held right now, and the thousands more scheduled for tomorrow, will be boring as hell and a poor use of time. Why? Because they’re not effectively lead. Your average meeting leader and participant alike thinks it’s easy to hold a stupid meeting. They’re absolutely right. It's easy to hold a "stupid" meeting. Unfortunately, that's the way most of them turn out. And it's because few of us see the importance of "meeting process." We are masters of production, but we tend to neglect "how" we get things done. This has got to change.
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Five Ways to Make a Tough Change
So something’s been bugging you. You know that you need to make a change and you’re pretty sure there will be big consequences. So how do you go about it? Here are five things to consider that will make a tough change just a bit easier. 1. What's the cost of status quo? Not making a change that you know you need to make is costing you. Sit down and make a list of the payoffs you’re receiving physically, mentally, and emotionally for keeping things as they are. Then list the prices you’re paying for maintaining the status quo.
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Be Empathetic Not Sympathetic
As leaders, we are often called to help people get perspective and to see and move through apparent inner and outer limitations. During this process, people will sometimes experience emotional reactions as they face challenges in their personal and professional lives. Our conditioning might tempt us to lose ourselves in their dilemma in an attempt to sympathize with them. We may find ourselves saying things like: “Oh you poor thing. What happened to you is just terrible! You must feel awful. I wish there was something I could do.” Do these words sound familiar?
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Is Charismatic Leadership Good for Teams?
Clearly we're all drawn to charismatic leaders. Whether we're talking about political leaders like JFK, public speakers like Zig Ziglar, or trainers like Anthony Robbins, how does the charisma or strength of a leader impact a team, pro or con? We've become increasingly conditioned to being ...
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PERFORM RANDOM ACTS OF FACILITATION
If you happen to be a member of any kind of group that meets regularly, I’m calling you to play your part in saving the world from millions of wasted hours in boring, poorly facilitated meetings! Premise Any participant in any group, at anytime, can commit a Random Act of Facilitation to ...
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The Triumph of a Joy Junky
THE DESCENT Our friend, who we'll call "Kay," started work as the only Social Worker in a medical treatment clinic about six months ago. This clinic employs about 40 people, and runs two shifts, 6 days a week. About 120 patients are served weekly, with each visiting 3 times per week. A large ...THE DESCENT Our friend, who we'll call "Kay," started work as the only Social Worker in a medical treatment clinic about six months ago. This clinic employs about 40 people, and runs two shifts, 6 days a week. About 120 patients are served weekly, with each visiting 3 times per week.
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Does Being Professional Evolve Your Audience?
Does "Being Professional" Evolve Your Audience? The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. --A old Toynbee, author-- We recently attended the "MillPond" Festival in Bishop, CA. with a rather eclectic blend of musicians from all over the US and Europe in attendance. ...
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The Leader's "Trump" Card
I've been a big fan of the new TV show, "The Apprentice," appearing every Thursday night on NBC. This new show is co-produced by Mark Burnett, producer of the incredibly successful "Survivor" reality show, and billionaire real estate mogul, Donald Trump in Manhattan. Though I love the business ...
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Assimilation vs Accumulation: Getting full nourishment from everything in your life.
Western culture has reached a level of material wealth greater than at any time in history. We include in this material wealth, wealth of information as well. Currently, at the pinnacle of our ability to manipulate our environment and produce all the things we need, and many that we don't, it's ...
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12 Attributes of a Functional Team
Most of us have had the experience of working on teams, an experience, in retrospect, we often regret having had. Consequently, you probably have a pretty good idea of the things that are typically "wrong" with groups. By "wrong," of course I mean those behaviors that are getting in the way of ...
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Ten Steps for Making a Major Life Change
As human beings, we’re creatures of habit. No wonder making a major life change is so hard! But it can be done. Follow these steps to get your change in motion, one easy step at a time: 1. Identify the price of maintaining the status quo. Not making the change you know you need to make is ...As human beings, we’re creatures of habit. No wonder making a major life change is so hard! But it can be done. Follow these steps to get your change in motion, one easy step at a time:
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Five Ways to Facilitate Group Conversations
Have you ever felt ‘stuck’ in a conversation with three or more people that just wasn’t going anywhere? People are droning on and on about this and that, leaving you bored and wishing you could just slip away? This is an all too familiar social situation - we’ve all been there and , chances are, ...
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Living Mastery
Philisophical Counseling, Business and Life Coaching. I help individuals and groups move past internal frameworks impeding ultimate success.
September 23, 2007
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Master Facilitator journal
This weekly ezine offers free tools, tips, and skills to support anyone who works with groups. Consise focus each week including real world examples and keys to applying each skill. Read by trainers, coaches, consultants, teachers, leaders, and facilitators.
September 23, 2007
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FacilitatorU.com
Virtual University offering "Real Time" Training, Tools, and Resources for group leaders. Visit the site for membership options and an array of resources for group leaders, trainers, and facilitators.
September 23, 2007
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Steve Davis
- Getting humans to work together and effectively communicate within and across working groups is often our greatest challenge.
- Leaders and project managers receive little training in the "context" in which their technical skills are meant to be used---within groups of people!
- Once these skills are learned, groups get far more done in less time, while saving money and loads of frustration.
- Group process is a science unto itself. Fortunately, what you need to know is not all that hard to learn.
- Successful group leadership involves a focus on group dynamics AND results.
- Effective facilitation of people processes offers huge leverage to you as a business leader.
- Synergy builds within your group when your people feel valued and heard, increasing their value to your organization.
- Facilitative Leadership will directly impact your revenue and retention rates.
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To learn more about Steve and his work, please visit www.FacilitatorU.com. Subscribe to his free ecourse on Facilitative Leadership and his weekly ezine for group leaders, the Master Facilitator journal.