Enabling Better Connections

Enabling Better Connections

Prepare “good” questions prior to the meeting

Explore group member’s opinions, experience, and beliefs

Enabling Better Connections

Create a climate of acceptance

Enabling Better Connections

Actively listen to each person

Enabling Better Connections

Affirm all expressions of opinion from each group member

Enabling Better Connections

“Peel the Onion” with questions

One answer is rarely enough. Follow up.

Enabling Better Connections

Be careful not to “take sides” in a debate

Enabling Better Connections

Allow for humor and “rabbit trails”

Enabling Better Connections

Don’t be afraid of silence

Enabling Better Connections

Deal with discussion “killers”

Enabling Better Connections

Be a facilitator, not an expert