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Meeting Structure Articles
Don’t Just Start Meetings, LAUNCH Them in 5 Minutes or Less
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
Decision-making frequently considers fuzzy information, fuzzy implications, and fuzzy thinking. To reduce fuzziness,...
Best One-Page Meeting Agenda Template Plus Three Workshop Agendas
Regardless of their personal style, experts and professionals who lead effective meetings rely on a simple, one-page...
Why Meeting Participants Have An Obligation To Contribute
Many articles talk about getting meeting participants involved. Seriously? If the meeting output impacts participants’...
How Scenario Planning Helps Prevent Missing Requirements
Poor requirements don’t impede projects, missing requirements do. Experience has taught us that one approach stands...
Remember the WHY Before the WHAT – An Integrative Problem Solving Framework and Agenda
Searching for a problem solving approach proven to work in a variety of situations? Whether you’re a group of highly...
This May Not Be For You, But if You Want to Build Collaboration . . .
Is it easy for you to build collaboration, commitment, and participation in meetings? Then feel free to walk away from...
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...
How to Lead Online Meetings: No Hiding and Practical Tips
Research consistently reports that the three biggest, challenges of leading online meetings are: Technology challenges...
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...
Internal or External Facilitator? 20 Questions to Help You Decide.
"Should we use an internal or external facilitator?" Good question. Everyone has experienced good and not-so-good...
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