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Last November, I had the pleasure of leading a workshop for a 100 Silicon Valley nonprofit organizations in hosted by Compasspoint and generously supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The workshop was filled within 24 hours and there was a waiting list. So, we scheduled an encore today for 65 people on the waiting list.

This workshop is mostly small group work and this time I experimented with smaller sized groups – 6 participants versus 8-10.  It worked much better.

I tend to do a lot of “share pairs” where people get a chance to do a debrief with someone else in the room.  It helps people process what they are learning.   My biggest problem as a facilitator was transitioning from the share pair back to full group. I had been using chimes.  But even with the loud noise they made, it did not get everyone’s attention.

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