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The role of the facilitator has changed significantly in the last few years. Today’s patterns of engagement, teaching and learning, problem solving, and forecasting require us to learn to facilitate or help to facilitate conversations. Whether you are a leader or a participant, read on to learn how Adaptive Action becomes a facilitator’s best tool to work with complex human systems.

The first rule for getting unstuck is, “Don’t tell yourself not to panic!” It is a waste of time because you’re going to panic anyway. Besides, sometimes a little panic can be a very useful thing. When that is behind you, go to Step 1.

One of my clients has discovered that great leaders have multiple personalities. They manage budgets and smooth feathers. They tell today’s stories and feed tomorrow’s visions. They plan and execute; reinforce and correct; encourage and challenge; create stability and manage change; hire and fire; and in their spare time, they do everything in between.

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. —John F. Kennedy

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. —Pablo Picasso                                                                                                    

“Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.” —Thomas J Watson