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5 Highly Effective Words for Business Meetings: Warning, Proceed With Caution!
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
Whether you use Zoom, Teams, WebEx, GoToMeeting, or another online meeting technology, don’t blame the failure of your...
Unstructured Meeting Costs Rise: Use a Proven Structured Technique
Meeting costs to American businesses as a result of poorly run meetings (typically unstructured) continue to rise....
Stop Meeting Scope Creep with Precise Questions
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
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
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
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
A strong facilitator should understand and appreciate the value of argumentation, specifically meeting argumentation....
Interviewing Questions to Ask to Understand Political Risks in Meetings
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
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
Facilitators must understand and manage meeting conflicts. Therefore, we must first understand our own internal...
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