I just wanted to let you know that the dynamic facilitation approach is alive and well in the corporate world. I just used it today with 12 disgruntled technicians that are responsible for setting the future requirements of the 220 technicians in a 1400 member plant. I alerted the team leader to the "technique" that I intended to use and warned him about the "chaos" that he would perceive until breakthrough was attained. He did a great job of keeping quiet and we achieved major breakthroughs. Throughout the session, I watched walls come down and trust go up. Rather than leave completing the one assignment we had, we changed the problem statement and have decided to completely revamp 6 different systems that will be synergistic and wholeheartedly supported by all technicians.

There is no way that this breakthrough could have been achieved with our normal team processes and facilitation techniques. I'll keep you posted as I make future attempts in using the dynamic facilitation technique. By the way, none of my fears of incompetence or not being able to write fast enough were realized. It went very smoothly and I was comfortable the entire time.

Thank you all for being a part of my learning process!

Bye!

Mike Huszar