title: Facilitating meetings.
abstract: Facilitating is an alternative style of running meetings. It is collaborative and goal-oriented and is especially useful when creative problem solving or group buy-in is important. Facilitators must master five skills: goal orientation, using ground rules, listening, problem solving, and decisionmaking. This article explains how to successfully master those skills.
authors.affiliation: Chicago Medical School, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: Jack E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Garon
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003226:Congresses as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D007857:Leadership; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010337:Pathology Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D010559:Personnel Management; D011340:Problem Solving; D011361:Professional Competence; D014481:United States