There
is a sense of a need to bring the disrupting person "under control."
How do you decide when and for what purpose those persons have
to be brought under control? Sometimes it seems appropriate for
the facilitator to make a comment to close someone down. It is
important for the group as a whole to understand what is going
on.
There
are good techniques for this that should be
learned and used. This should not be used as a blanket technique.
I have a bias that people are a lot smarter than I think they
are and things need to be talked out. We have had times when the
group has spent lots of time arguing over one "bucket" of work.
Then, when all is said and done, no one signs up. What does that
mean? We have dealt with that issue.
We
have to understand that there are conflicting agendas. The role
of facilitation is not to resolve those agendas and solve all
of the political issues. The role of the facilitation (the whole
system) is to manufacture something useful out of those conflicting
agendas.
000706.Matt
Taylor
