Facilitation skills are not just for change & improvement "experts". Every leader should have them. Organisations that integrate facilitation into their leadership approach report more productive & engaged teams, improved innovation & better decision-making. Facilitative leadership is even more important in the era of AI. AI can analyse trends, detect patterns & generate content, but it can't replicate the trust built through dialogue, or the remarkable outcomes that can emerge when people collaborate to make sense of complex issues together. How we might go about making facilitative leadership the norm: 1) Integrate facilitation into leadership development activities, providing training, coaching, resources & safe spaces to practice. 2) Have senior leaders role model facilitative approaches. 3) Build understanding of situations where we should limit the number/style of decisionmakers & those where we should be facilitative. 4) Make facilitative approaches the leadership norm/expectation & build them into organisational processes. 5) Encourage peer learning so leaders can share experiences, discuss challenges & learn from one another. Inspired by a very good new blog & sketchnote from @tnvora: tanmayvora.com/what-effectiv….