A Successful RMT Team Building Facilitator possesses 14 key characteristics that define their unique style and ensure workshops effectively promote Right-Minded Teamwork (RMT).
While every facilitator brings their own personality, these traits are vital for setting a collaborative, professional, and outcome-driven tone in any RMT team-building workshop.
Successful RMT Facilitators are mature individuals who have found their own voice rather than trying to mimic others. They prepare proactively by asking, “Do I understand the outcome from the stakeholders’ perspectives?” and having a predetermined set of values to guide their choices when conflict arises.
⭐ The 14 Essential Characteristics
These characteristics guide the facilitator’s approach, ensuring they do no harm and successfully lead teammates toward mutual goals:
- Friendly: Sets a welcoming and exciting atmosphere, making teammates feel comfortable.
- Collaborative: Uses body language, tone, and environment to support workshop outcomes and encourage real discussion.
- Attentive: Continually practices seeing, hearing, and feeling the interpersonal dynamics in the room, watching body language and reactions for patterns.
- Facilitative: Knows how to use tools effectively (the means), while maintaining focus on the desired meeting outcomes (the end).
- Focused: Stays one mental step ahead of participants, continually planning how to get from the current discussion to the desired outcome and beyond.
- Gentle: Moves toward tension or conflict in the room without avoiding the problem, reflecting key points and summarizing situations so participants see the necessity for addressing them.
- Outcome-Driven: Uses the agenda and desired outcome as a filter for all communication, interrupting discussions only to ask, “How does this information help achieve our desired outcome?”
- Helpful: Identifies “what’s in it for them” for participants (often before the meeting) and synergizes individual motivations to align with the desired outcomes.
- Practical: Proactively identifies process and people barriers during planning and develops preventions and interventions.
- Mature: Is true to themself, finds their own voice, and avoids trying to mimic other successful facilitators.
- Playful: Uses humor, but never at anyone’s expense.
- Engaging: Looks for opportunities to get participants moving with their entire bodies, not just their minds.
- Non-Judgmental: Is willing to step aside from their own beliefs to facilitate objectively, sharing opinions without directing the group’s decision-making.
- Self-Reflecting: Asks honest questions about preparation, stakeholder understanding, and principles to ensure readiness.
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By embodying these 14 traits, the facilitator becomes the living embodiment of Reason, expertly guiding teams away from the Ego’s battleground toward lasting collaborative success.
