Facilitation

“Facilitation is important because it helps groups work together effectively by creating a structured environment where everyone feels heard, can contribute their ideas, and actively participate in decision-making, ultimately leading to better problem-solving, more inclusive outcomes, and improved collaboration within a team or organization; essentially, a facilitator guides a group towards achieving its goals by managing the process and ensuring everyone has a voice.”

— Maurya West Meiers, Senior Evaluation Officer at the World Bank and coauthor of A Guide to Assessing Needs: Essential Tools for Collecting Information, Making Decisions, and Achieving Development Results.

Read more from Maurya at the American Evaluation Association website.

Look at these resources from Maurya.

• Why are facilitation skills so important when working with others?

• Liberating Structures

• The Facilitator’s Guide to Immersive, Blended, and Hybrid Learning

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