Meeting Structure Articles

How Scenario Planning Helps Prevent Missing Requirements

Poor requirements don’t impede projects, missing requirements do. Experience has taught us that one approach stands above all others when you want to scour for missing requirements—consider ‘dry...

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 paid nuclear physicists designing a new multimillion-dollar scanner or a group...

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 this article. If, however, you’re like most people, leading groups and teams...

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 meetings, found that the words yeah, give, start, and meeting have a larger...

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

Aug 12, 2021 | Analysis Methods, Communication Skills, Decision Making, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools, Planning Approach, Problem Solving, Scrum Events

For over ten years, we have consistently posted articles on Facilitation Best Practices. Articles are written to help...

How to Lead Meetings That Increase Your “Executive Presence”

Jul 8, 2021 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Structure

You may not think there's a difference between being proficient at organizing meetings versus being able to lead...

The Servant Leader Solution Benefits Everyone

May 6, 2021 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Structure

FEAR: F#©% Everything And Run If the thought of change instills the FUD factor in you (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt)...

A Blueprint When Building Consensus Around All Types of Decision-Making

Decision Making, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools, Prioritizing

After reviewing some material about the optimal methodology (i.e., approach) for distribution planning, related to an...

The Bookend Method: A Rhetorical Strategy for Facilitators to Improve Decision-Making

Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools, Prioritizing

In managing capital projects or leading teams, facilitators often grapple with prioritization, where every item can...

Guidelines for Selecting Appropriate Structured Facilitation Tools

Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools

Facilitators rely on hundreds of tools to gather information, support decision-making, encourage innovation, build...

How to Help a Group Decide the WHY WHAT HOW — Purpose, Criteria, and Options

Meeting Structure

To facilitate consensus around simple decision-making, consider the following scenario and do not forget to help the...

8 Meeting Purposes and Five Reasons to Host Facilitated Sessions

Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

Effective meetings are first based on a clear line of sight to an end result, preferably something that can be...

Use a Professional Meeting Wrap-up Because Most Meetings Don’t End, They Stop

Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

Daniel Pink's book When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing stresses the importance of the meeting wrap-up. He...

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