2023-06-28
Beyond Screen-Sharing: What True Facilitation Really Means
I see a tendency to undervalue the term "Facilitator". If Facilitation means "Hosting the sessions and sharing screen with Jira and moving the tickets from a column to another", then indeed... we are paid way too much for this 😅 If on the other hand, Facilitation means helping the teams identifying their own improvement points and becoming gradually more mature and customer-centric for example, then I think we should totally embrace the satisfaction of being a facilitator.
The fact that I had a similar conversation last week and this afternoon would mean that either it's a global "issue", or that I give this way too much importance 😅
I always refer to this article by Barry Overeem (written in 2015 but still on point today) : https://lnkd.in/eGXUp_sP
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📖 “Facilitation is possible one of the most undervalued leadership compentencies. Done well, you don’t really know that it’s happening. To the untrained eye, it just seems like the group is high performing.”
Love that quote from The Art & science of Facilitation. It’s so on point.
💪 I believe facilitation is THE core skill of a SM and agile coach. It’s the glue needed for effective co-creation.
⭐Els
In the Agile 2 Foundations course, we teach about Socratic inquiry (a form of leadership) and dialectic discussion. We also teach about how effective leaders not only ask questions, but offer ideas and often teach what they know and coach and mentor others. And we explain what leadership behaviors lead to "safe" environments in which open and honest discussion occurs. These are all different forms of leadership. There is more info here: https://www.agile2academy.com/engineering-leadership
Cliff