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


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

Research consistently reports that the three biggest, challenges of leading online meetings are: Technology challenges...

Whether you use Zoom, Teams, WebEx, GoToMeeting, or another online meeting technology, don’t blame the failure of your...
Interview participants to understand as much as possible about them, the people they work with, and their business. To...
Using structured meetings with facilitation and professional meeting design quickly gets people to focus on the right...
In Brian Aull’s book The Triad: Three Civic Virtues That Could Save American Democracy, you’ll find an insightful...
When dealing with anger, first understand that anger is as normal as any other emotion. We simply expect or want...
F acilitators must understand and manage meeting conflicts. Therefore, we must first understand our own internal...
Before you send a meeting or workshop pre-read to participants, consider a formal meeting announcement rather than an...
Nonverbal expressions, like words (see Facilitate Meaning, Not Words ), connote multiple messages. After you finish...
You’ve heard plenty about what to do, but the Seven Deadly Sins of Facilitating also suggest what NOT to do. The...
Ultimately, consensus-building requires intuition and a higher self to overcome the selfishness of physical and...
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