Facilitation tools, resources and guidance to enable working environments where people can be at their best
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Meeting Toolchest was created by Culturistics to provide meeting, thinking and facilitation tools. Specifically, free resources for people to enable working environments where people can be at their best: intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. And where, as a result, they can grow and thrive and enjoy delivering value to others.
A key part of this is Facilitation. Basically, the art of enabling a group of people to successfully arrive at a desired outcome, efficiently and collectively. We describe this more fully in our article: What is Facilitation?
Specifically, key to that success is having certain essentials in place:
- Alignment through clear worthwhile and meaningful goals (Goals)
- Activities and process elements capable of delivering those goals (Process)
- Actions by which everyone understands their part in that (Roles)
- Attention to each other in constructive, supportive communication (Interpersonals)
The four essentials of success form the heart of our model for meeting effectively, which provides the structure for this site. Although, in the meeting context we use slightly different words (see right): Alignment; Activity; Action; and Attention.Furthermore, each of these elements is supported by a range of tools and techniques. Moreover, you can freely access these facilitation tools through the links below.
Facilitation Tools and Resources
Have you come to this page looking for resources to support your facilitation of others? If so, we would like to provide you with a quick overview of what you can find and freely access through these pages:
- More guidance on how to facilitate success through participative leadership
- A way of rethinking how you see meeting and approaches that will help you achieve far more
- Further thoughts on: Goals/Alignment; Activity/Process; Attention/Interpersonals; and Action/Roles
- … and on gathering the right people together (Assembly) and identifying learning opportunities (Assessment)
- Facilitation tools to support: Goals/Alignment; Activity/Process; Attention/Interpersonals; and Action/Roles
- Maturity models by which you can think about your current approach, identify how you want it to be different and plan your way forward
- A range of instant tool templates that open up as free whiteboards or in Google Jamboard
- A source of activity timers and virtual flipcharts to assist your facilitations
- Information on Facilitator Training can be found via the Culturistics site
Track your progress to ensure the efficacy of this strategy.