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Quick Tips For More Effective Meetings

Today we bring you quick tips for more effective meetings. "Distribution Talk With Jason Bader", a podcast that exposes... "... the stories, struggles, and solutions from interesting characters who...

Three Behaviors Guaranteed to Build Consensus

Meetings capture a huge investment of time. Unproductive meetings affect your cash flow, morale, and the potential growth of your biggest asset, your people. As frequent and important as we attend...

How To Save Your Meeting With A ‘Special’ Meeting Break

Think of a meeting break as a pressure relief valve. Under normal circumstances, a standard ten-minute break, every seventy-five minutes or so, allows participants to decompress so they can return...

Facilitator Training 101: Four Required Roles Supporting Effective Facilitation

We all have skills to perform many roles in life, such as switching quickly between parent and child when attending a family gathering, or switching quickly between friend and customer when shopping...

5 Highly Effective Words for Business Meetings: Warning, Proceed With Caution!

Jul 2, 2020 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

Research conducted by professor Cynthia Rudin of M.I.T. and student Been Kim, on highly effective words for business...

Don’t Blame Meeting Failure on Your Online Meeting Technology

May 5, 2020 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools

Whether you use Zoom, Teams, WebEx, GoToMeeting, or another online meeting technology, don’t blame the failure of your...

Quick Tips For More Effective Meetings

Apr 4, 2020 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

Today we bring you quick tips for more effective meetings. "Distribution Talk With Jason Bader", a podcast that...

Stop Meeting Scope Creep with Precise Questions

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict

Scope creep kills a lot of projects. Scope creep kills many more meetings. The hardest task to accomplish in leading a...

How to Build Stakeholder Analysis and Consensual Understanding

Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

Begin stakeholder analysis by identifying and examining how each interacts with the organization when they provide or...

Become a Humane Human, Understand WHY Behind WHAT

Communication Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict

The opposite of being a humane human. Road Rage. Have you been irritated by someone else’s driving? Of course, we all...

A Quick, 5-Minute Paradigm Exercise to Challenge Groupthink

Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict

We encourage professional facilitators to carry a toolbox. Include some intervention devices when you need to shake up...

Appreciate the Value of Argumentation and Meeting Argumentation

Communication Skills, Decision Making, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict

A strong facilitator should understand and appreciate the value of argumentation, specifically meeting argumentation....

Interviewing Questions to Ask to Understand Political Risks in Meetings

Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

Interview participants to understand as much as possible about them, the people they work with, and their business. To...

Compelling Reasons for Structured Meetings | Positive Impact on Stakeholders

Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

Using structured meetings with facilitation and professional meeting design quickly gets people to focus on the right...

6 Potent Ways to Facilitate Meeting Conflict Response and Manage Conflict

Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

Facilitators must understand and manage meeting conflicts. Therefore, we must first understand our own internal...

Consensus does NOT Mean that Participants are Going to be “Happy”

Decision Making, Managing Conflict, Prioritizing

A facilitator should typically avoid the term “happy”. Our effort guides a group to a common or shared understanding...

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