Tips for Facilitating Discussions
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The document provides tips for facilitating discussions, including paraphrasing others' comments, checking for understanding, giving positive feedback, expanding on ideas, energizing the discussion, playing devil's advocate, relieving tension, consolidating ideas, changing activities, and summarizing the discussion.
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Tips for Facilitating Discussions
- 2. Tips • Paraphrase. Paraphrase. – “So, what you’re saying is that we need to…”
- 3. Tips • Check for meaning – “Are you saying that….”
- 4. Tips • Give positive feedback. Compliment – “That’s a good point.” – “I never thought of that before.” – “Thanks for bringing that to our attention.”
- 5. Tips • Expand and elaborate – “Your comments provide an interesting point. Let’s take this idea a bit further.”
- 6. Tips • Increase the pace. Energize – “Here’s a challenge for you. For the next two minutes, see how many ways you can think of to…”
- 7. Tips • Devil’s advocate. Disagree – “I can see where you are coming from, but I’m not sure that what you are describing is always the case.” – “Has anyone else had an experience that is different from Jamal’s?”
- 8. Tips • Relieve Tension. Mediate – “I think that Lynda and Ron are not really disagreeing with each other, but are just bringing out two different sides of this issue.”
- 9. Tips • Consolidate. Pull together – “As you can see from Mohammed’s and Kathy’s comments…” – “Who else can add to what Joyce, Fran and Tim have already commented on?”
- 10. Tips • Change the process – “Let’s break into small groups and see if you can come up with….”
- 11. Tips • Summarize. Summarize. – “I have listed four major points that have come from our discussion.”