Meeting Structure Articles

Meeting Preparation – How to Quickly Prepare Meetings for Results

Activities and Basic Agenda Approach for Meeting Preparation In an ideal world, you have ample time for meeting preparation. But in the real world, you're swamped. Too much work, too many meetings,...

A Facilitator’s Guide to Building Better Meetings (Meetings That Get Results !)

The Purpose There’s nothing more frustrating than an unproductive meeting—except one that leads to another unproductive meeting. Which is why I wrote Meetings That Get Results. Developed from over...

Facilitation Best Practices – 26 Articles To Help You Lead Better Meetings

For over ten years, we have consistently posted articles on Facilitation Best Practices. Articles are written as facilitation training that helps you lead better meetings. Throughout, we have...

How to Lead Meetings That Increase Your “Executive Presence”

You may not think there's a difference between being proficient at organizing meetings versus being able to lead meetings. There is! Some people can do both. And if well trained, can do both well....

Continuous Team Building Provides Significant Advantages

Feb 10, 2022 | Leadership Skills, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

As defined in Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, a team is “two or more draft animals harnessed to the same vehicle...

Converting New Product Ideas into Polished Product Concepts (2 of 3)

Jan 6, 2022 | Meeting Structure, Prioritizing, Problem Solving

Product Concept Management (PCM or Catalyst) is the technique of designing, implementing, and continuously managing...

Myths and Gremlins of New Product Concept Management (PCM)

Dec 2, 2021 | Leadership Skills, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

Our last article launched a method for managing new product ideas called Catalyst or PCM Now we take a step back...

Questions to Ask If Using a Decision Quality Spider Chart (DQ Spider)

Analysis Methods, Meeting Structure

When making decisions, consider testing for decision quality (DQ)[1] so that you can avoid having another meeting. A...

How to Facilitate Prioritization and Build Consensus Quickly (or, MoSCoW)

Decision Making, Meeting Structure, Prioritizing

Strongly encouraged by Steve Jobs, as mentioned in his biography by Walter Isaacson, here is how to facilitate...

Frequent Meeting Problems and What You Should Do About Them

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

Ever develop that sense of deja vu about not getting anywhere during a meeting? Meeting problems are indicative of...

How to Be Precise with Three Meeting Transition Questions: Do NOT Ask “How Do You Solve Global Hunger?”

Communication Skills, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

Meeting Transition questions is highly effective because you cannot develop a plan, any plan, such as a marketing...

How the MGRush FAST Facilitation Technique Helps You Succeed

Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

One of the many approaches taught by MGRUSH in our Professional Certified meeting leadership training includes the...

Facilitate Consensual Prioritization Using a Perceptual Map

Decision Making, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools

A perceptual map works well when the PowerBall approach is not robust enough, yet many of your attributes and criteria...

Building Agendas to Deliver the Output You Need from Your Meeting

Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure

You should use these steps when building agendas because following them will increase your meeting success and...

Facilitate a Decision Matrix to Document Supporting Rationale

Meeting Structure

A decision matrix supports both decision-making and decision quality at the same time. A decision matrix can be viewed...

Voting Sucks Because it Leads to Bigger Numbers but Lower Quality Decisions

Decision Making, Meeting Structure

Western society, and to an increasing amount, the rest of the world, depends on the voting method of decision-making....

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