Moderation skills for managers

All settings are quickly explained and easy to implement, without any special material. You can choose to browse through the book and simply try out a method. Or you can implement specific tips that suit you and the situation in your team. The book is like a supermarket: you help yourself and take what you like to the next meeting. Here are two examples:

Meeting without an agenda

Objective
Address and clarify current issues, involve employees.
Description
You invite people to a pop-up meeting. There is no agenda in advance. This is created in the first 15 minutes, just in time, i.e. very up-to-date.
The method is simple: everyone writes the topics they want to discuss on post-its. Everyone then presents their topics. There are no discussions - only questions. The topics that belong together are clustered.
The participants draw three lines on the clusters that they think are most important. Zack! The agenda is ready. The topic clusters that have received the most tally marks are dealt with first. You can also allow one person to make all the tally marks on the same cluster if this topic is particularly important to them.

Filter out what is relevant with questions

Goal
There are many experts in your team. Everyone has an area in which they are particularly good. In order to make the experts' knowledge available to everyone, it is your job to ask them the right questions and help the group achieve a result. You don't have to be deeply involved in the topic yourself - that's usually not even possible.
Description
Heterogeneous teams produce better results than homogeneous teams - if they have the right framework conditions. An important framework condition is a manager who knows how to ask the right questions. This helps everyone in the group to understand complicated issues.
Again, write down the most important points on a flipchart. The following questions are helpful: