Comments on: Engage Voices on Other Side?

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By: Jeanne Dininni

Jeanne Dininni — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:14:32 +0000

Perhaps facilitating group discussions is easier for certain personality types–though I’m certain that nearly anyone willing to work hard enough to develop the necessary skills, while at the same time growing as a person in all the ways that would enhance those skills, can learn to do it reasonably well.

For example, people who tend to be more reserved–or even those who are simply too polite to interrupt people–often have a hard time moderating group discussions, because they tend to allow the more vocal individuals to monopolize the discussion since they don’t like to interrupt those who contribute excessively and often feel uncomfortable changing the direction of a discussion when it becomes too one-sided or veers off onto a tangent.

Pushier individuals quite often try to steer the course of the discussion–or even change the agenda of the entire meeting when it isn’t planned in advance–attempting (whether consciously or subconsciously) to take the reins away from the leader; and it takes a strong-minded or highly skilled facilitator to overcome that.