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The Importance of Good Facilitation Skills to Drive Success in Agile Teams

Scrum.org Community Podcast

English - November 30, 2023 20:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MB
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In this episode, host Dave West is joined by Douglas Ferguson from Voltage Control to talk about facilitation and the importance of effective facilitation. They chat about:

- How to approach facilitation and how to choose certain techniques
- Common anti-patterns
-Different facilitation techniques
- Showing up to meetings with intention
- and more!

About our guest: 

 Douglas Ferguson is an entrepreneur, educator, and human-centered technologist. He is the founder and president of Voltage Control, a facilitation academy that develops leaders through certifications, workshops, and organizational coaching focused on facilitation mastery, innovation, and play. He has helped transform leaders, innovators, and creatives from Nike, U.S. SOCOM, Google, the Air Force, Gap, Tesla, MSU, Church & Dwight, Apple, Adobe, Dropbox, Fidelity, Vrbo, Liberty Mutual, Humana, and SAIC. Douglas is a thought leader and author of four books: Magical Meetings, Beyond the Prototype, How to Remix Anything, and Start Within.