Carter Campbell - C2ROI, LLC The Facilitated Solutions Company

Each month a new featured article by master facilitator Carter Campbell is posted here. Please enjoy these as a free resource to sharpen your skills and increase your productivity. For more information about Carter please read his bio. Carter Campbell is also available as a keynote speaker. For information please contact us

Latest article Mentor - A Trusted Counselor or Guide posted: December 27th, 2007.

10 - Mentor - A Trusted Counselor or Guide

Who do you turn to when you need advice or direction? When I look back over the different twists and turns I've taken in my life I see a long list of people who have guided me and served as both positive and negative examples. [Read More]

09 - And vs. But

If you find yourself facilitating a group and the word "but" keeps coming up, then you've hit one of those rocks and it will be primarily for one of two reasons... [Read More]

08 - Common Sense Isn't Always Common Practice

I was thinking, about how often we forget to take care of each other and ourselves, and how often common sense isn't common practice. We know that if we treat each other well that usually others will treat us well... [Read More]

07 - How to Create a Silo

I'm not speaking of a grain storage silo, I'm talking about the cold war missile silos that were built for the policy of mutually assured destruction. Dig a deep hole in the organization, one where no one can find you or communicate with you... [Read More]

06 - Managing "up"? How about managing 360?

I believe that we need to broaden our sphere of thinking and go beyond "managing up" to managing 360 degrees. Not only should we understand the strengths and weaknesses of those who work above us, we should also understand the strengths and weaknesses of those who work beside us, and those who we supervise. By understanding the strengths and weaknesses of our "team"... [Read More]

05 - Tips for Effective Meetings

Meetings, meetings and more meetings! Here are a few tips to make your next meeting more productive... [Read More]

04 - What's Your Message?

What's your message? No, no, no...not what you say...what message do you convey with your actions and body language? Only 7% of our communication comes from the words we use. So, what are you telling people around you by your actions, attitude and body language? [Read More]

03 - Team Building

Team building. The word automatically conjures up ropes courses, people falling backward into the arms of their colleagues, blindfolds and the like. These techniques don't actually create teamwork, they point out the importance of trust in teams. Techniques practiced in seminar land are useless unless the participants begin to act on the lessons learned... [Read More]

02 - Read Your Organization's Road Signs

Another set of goals. It's the first business day after the planning session. How are you doing? Day one should be pretty easy to accomplish, but how will you be doing six months from now? Will you have made the changes necessary to meet the needs of the organization and your people? [Read More]

01 - Communication During Times of Change

Let me qualify this productivity tip by saying I know that there are hundreds of books, lectures and courses on communication, here are just a few common sense tactics for assuring the appropriate message...[Read More]