Meeting Structure Articles

How to Ensure Neutral Facilitation: Essential Skills for Business Leaders Seeking to Elevate Meeting Outcomes

Imagine a Super Bowl without neutral referees or a courtroom without impartial judges. Similarly, envision a high-stakes meeting, aimed at driving strategic decisions and achieving consensus,...

Rhetorical Precision: A Strategic Approach to Facilitation and Decision-Making for High-Stakes Projects

For project managers and product owners overseeing multi-million-dollar projects, the ability to facilitate impactful meetings with rhetorical precision and clarity is critical. The role of...

Mastering the Art of Facilitation: Balancing Alignment and Creativity in Business Meetings

When it comes to facilitating business meetings, there are 10 core elements that help ensure a creative, productive, and engaging experience. 1. How to keep meetings on track and productive...

Ten Key Deliverables Every Meeting Participant Has the Right to Expect

Even lousy movies and novels have three components: a beginning, a middle, and an end. A meeting participant (or ceremony, event, session, or workshop) should expect every session they attend to...

Rhetorical Precision: A Strategic Approach to Facilitation and Decision-Making for High-Stakes Projects

Oct 2, 2024 | Communication Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools

For project managers and product owners overseeing multi-million-dollar projects, the ability to facilitate impactful...

Mastering the Art of Facilitation: Balancing Alignment and Creativity in Business Meetings

Sep 10, 2024 | Meeting Structure

When it comes to facilitating business meetings, there are 10 core elements that help ensure a creative, productive,...

Ten Key Deliverables Every Meeting Participant Has the Right to Expect

Apr 12, 2024 | Analysis Methods, Decision Making, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Planning Approach, Prioritizing, Problem Solving, Scrum Events

Even lousy movies and novels have three components: a beginning, a middle, and an end. A meeting participant (or...

Mastering Meeting Engagement Excellence: A Strategic Blueprint

Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

To master the art of meeting engagement (i.e., active involvement, collaboration, and participation in meetings),...

A Facilitator’s Strategies for Overcoming Resistance to Change

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure

Professional business facilitators confront a variety of challenges, perhaps none greater than overcoming resistance...

Mastering Meeting Facilitation Challenges: Tackling Common Hurdles Head-On

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

Meeting facilitation challenges vary depending on the specific context and the participants involved. However, some...

How To Facilitate Vague Indicators into SMART Measures and Criteria

Decision Making, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools, Prioritizing

Meeting participants don't argue about verbs and nouns, they argue about modifiers. Modifiers include adjectives,...

Don’t Just Start Meetings, LAUNCH Them in 5 Minutes or Less

Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure

Successful meetings and workshops comprise three essential phases: a beginning, a middle, and an end. Yet, meetings...

Decision Quality Focuses on ‘WHAT’ is Right, NOT ‘WHO’ is Right

Meeting Structure

Decision-making frequently considers fuzzy information, fuzzy implications, and fuzzy thinking. To reduce fuzziness,...

The Power of Questions — Why Leading with Questions Improves Meetings

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Structure

The HBR (Harvard Business Review) article, The Surprising Power of Questions by Professors Alison Wood Brooks and...

How to Build Trust As a Meeting Facilitator

Communication Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Structure

Whether you're facilitating a complex meeting or a daily standup, if your meeting participants don't trust you (or...

Sourcing Innovative Ideas and Managing New Product Concepts (3 of 3)

Analysis Methods, Meeting Structure, Problem Solving

The purpose of this article is to help you manage and facilitate the transformation of the abstract (sourcing...

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