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Parker, Solomon Focus on How to Improve Workforce, Intergenerational Communication
Kamber Parker and JD Solomon will discuss improving intergenerational communication and workforce effectiveness at the 2023 WEASC...
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JD Solomon
Sep 20, 2023
Five Key Enablers for Project Managers to Be Effective Communicators
These are the five key enablers for project managers to be effective communicators. Like a chain, these enablers are only as strong as...
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Aug 12, 2023
SMRP 2023: JD Solomon to Speak on Communicating Asset Management
The 31st Annual SMRP Conference joins maintenance, reliability, and physical asset management professionals from around the world on...
J.D. Solomon
Aug 8, 2023
Why Are Most Facilitators White College-Educated Women?
SessionLab recently released the outcome of the first comprehensive survey on the practice of facilitation, the State of Facilitation...
J.D. Solomon
Jul 25, 2023
Eight Solutions for Effectively Communicating Asset Management to Frontline Staff
Effectively communicating asset management to frontline staff can be challenging. One of the largest barriers is providing a bridge...
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Jul 21, 2023
Losing Senior Management? JD Solomon To Discuss Effective Communcation at LRVS 2023
LRVS has become a community of like-minded professionals who can connect, collaborate and add value to each other. It is a platform...
J.D. Solomon
Jul 18, 2023
Why Do Facilitators Overlook Onboarding and Socializing New Team Members?
People get promoted, change jobs, move, or change teams in other ways. When this happens, new members often join a team, and these...
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Jul 7, 2023
Improving Soft Skills Propels Your Career
These two books will improve your soft skills and empower your career. "The results of our work often depend on the quality of the...
J.D. Solomon
Jun 26, 2023
Effective Communication: How to Improve When Environmental Disasters Strike Our Communities
The East Palestine train wreck is just the most recent example of our struggles with communication of environmental disasters in our...
J.D. Solomon
Jun 12, 2023
Five Unique Attributes of the Fresh Book, Facilitating with FINESSE
Facilitating with FINESSE: A Guide to Successful Business Solutions is a practitioner's guide for ten common applications that...
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Jun 7, 2023
New Book: JD Solomon's Facilitating with FINESSE Is Available on Amazon
Facilitating with FINESSE: A Guide to Successful Business Solutions is now available on Amazon.
J.D. Solomon
May 15, 2023
Eight Solutions for Effectively Communicating Asset Management to Senior Management
Eight key elements came to mind as I prepare for an upcoming speaking engagement. Two of my passions, asset management and communicating...
J.D. Solomon
Apr 24, 2023
Why Diversifying Water Sources Provides Benefits and Challenges
Diversifying the number of sources in a public drinking water system has positives and negatives. According to one source, approximately...
J.D. Solomon
Apr 12, 2023
How to Keep Your Asset Management Program Strong During Leadership Changes
Asset management programs are unique within the larger sphere of management systems. Like all management systems, asset management...
J.D. Solomon
Apr 3, 2023
My Top 5 Tips for Facilitating Large Groups versus Small Groups
Facilitating large groups can be intimidating. As always, successful facilitation starts with doing the basics well. Special attention in...
J.D. Solomon
Jan 10, 2023
How To Improve Communication & Facilitation with the FINESSE Mental Model
After a guest lecture at a major US university, I recently had a follow-up conversation with a graduate student. The discussion centered...
J.D. Solomon
Nov 29, 2022
How to Improve Facilitation of Public Workshop and Comment Sessions
Facilitating public workshops and comment sessions are typically conducted by public-sector organizations. These sessions are intended to...
J.D. Solomon
Nov 21, 2022
How to Improve Your Communication of Probability to Senior Management
The Chance of Rain Most people do not understand what the chance of rain means. Some believe it means it will rain "30% of the day,"...
J.D. Solomon
Nov 9, 2022
Facilitation Lessons Learned: One Board, Four Board Retreats, and Four Formats
Facilitators seldom have the opportunity to use four formats with the same board of directors for four consecutive years. Blame it on...
J.D. Solomon
Oct 11, 2022
How to Overcome the Fear of Using the Wrong Probability Distribution
Probability Distributions The probability density function (PDF) is applied to continuous random variables, whereas the probability...
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