by Beth Cougler Blom | Jul 2, 2024 | Facilitation, Online facilitation
As we head into the summer months, it’s a perfect time to plan ahead and book professional facilitation services for your fall or winter meeting. We support organizational clients every year to plan for and facilitate effective meetings. We’d love to work with...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jun 26, 2024 | Podcast Episodes
In this episode, Beth Cougler Blom talks with Margie Meacham about artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications in learning and development. Margie discusses her ongoing journey with AI, sharing valuable insights on how to effectively leverage it to enhance...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jun 12, 2024 | Podcast Episodes
In this solo episode, Beth Cougler Blom shares some of her approach to maintaining a learning organization at her learning design and facilitation services company. She also highlights sources for how we can all keep learning in our field, giving examples of...
by Beth Cougler Blom | May 24, 2024 | Facilitation
Does your society or association convene regular members’ meetings for which you’re constantly seeking ways to engage them as the organizer? Here are four simple methods you can use to engage your group, drawn from a collection of activities known as...
by Beth Cougler Blom | May 22, 2024 | Podcast Episodes
In this episode, Beth Cougler Blom talks with Kerri Price about the art of creative facilitation and why it’s so important for facilitators to push ourselves and our groups to think differently. Beth and Kerri also discuss: techniques we can use while designing...
by Beth Cougler Blom | May 8, 2024 | Podcast Episodes
In this episode, Beth Cougler Blom talks with Dr. Monty Badami about how we can use an anthropological lens in facilitation to engage in collective sense-making. If we can think like anthropologists, we will have access to the most valuable resource in understanding...
by Beth Cougler Blom | May 1, 2024 | Learning design
We recently gave a piece of advice to a potential client: “If you’re not quite ready to actively start working with us on building the course you want, just begin by lightly collecting potential ideas until you’re ready.” Although in this case, the client is waiting...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Apr 24, 2024 | Podcast Episodes
In this episode, Beth Cougler Blom talks with Deborah Rim Moiso, the editor of SessionLab’s State of Facilitation 2024 Report, about data and insights gleaned from the report and what it might mean for facilitators worldwide. Engage with Deborah Rim Moiso and...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Apr 12, 2024 | Facilitation, Learning design
We love our learning design and facilitation work for clients—and sometimes we get so busy doing the work that we forget to tell the stories of what we’re up to! It’s time to rectify that situation and share a few short examples of some of the projects we’ve been...