Meeting Agendas Articles

How to Facilitate SMEs to Categorize Lists of Ideas and Inputs

One of the worst questions a facilitator could ask is "How would you like to categorize these?" They don't know how. That's why they hired you. Categorizing and creating clusters of related items...

The 4 Pillars of a Legitimate Meeting Invitation – When to DECLINE

The Tyranny of the Blank Calendar Invite Structure does not pose as the enemy of creativity; it serves as its prerequisite. Structure fails to arrive as a blank calendar invitation—a “Quick...

Bridging the Gap: Transforming Bad Meetings into Powerful Collaborative Forums

In professional environments where teamwork, complexity, and consensus drive outcomes, the toll of poorly led meetings is not simply inefficiency; it is wasted opportunity. To transform bad meetings...

Beyond Groupthink: Collaboration Bias Shrinks Decision Quality

How to facilitate unavoidable collaboration bias begins by understanding the causes and consequences of collaboration bias, as experienced by facilitators guiding leadership teams or review boards...

Whether in person or online, meeting participants have an obligation to participate.

Why Meeting Participants Have An Obligation To Contribute

Mar 9, 2021 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support, Problem Solving

Many articles talk about getting meeting participants involved. Seriously? If the meeting output impacts participants’...

How Scenario Planning Helps Prevent Missing Requirements

Jan 5, 2021 | Analysis Methods, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Planning Approach, Problem Solving

Poor requirements don’t impede projects, missing requirements do. Experience has taught us that one approach stands...

Powerful Facilitation, Gratitude, and Scrum Guide 2020

Dec 3, 2020 | Leadership Skills, Meeting Support, Scrum Events

While an attitude of gratitude promotes more powerful facilitation, you won’t hear the term ‘happy’ very often in one...

How to Calculate Total Factor Productivity as an Indicator

Analysis Methods, Meeting Tools

Measure the increase in productivity per employee using the formula for Total Factor Productivity. Accomplishment may...

How to Facilitate Alignment and Confirm Balance

Analysis Methods

When you facilitate alignment, you help groups identify gaps, omissions, and overkill, and confirm the appropriateness...

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...

Data Transformation — How to convert a single piece of data into a visual display of 16 elements

Decision Making, Meeting Tools

With data transformation, each piece of data or single cell might be decomposed into another layer. Amplify this...

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....

How to Facilitate Olympic Scoring – Innovative Ideas & Concepts

Analysis Methods, Decision Making, Meeting Structure, Prioritizing

The Purpose of Olympic Scoring is to extract some consensually validated new product, process, or other innovative...

Methodological Awareness About Deming’s 14 Points of Continuous Improvement

Decision Making, Leadership Skills

Every minute somewhere, someone refers to Deming’s term SMART (i.e., Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant,...

Appreciate the Value of Argumentation and Meeting Argumentation

Communication Skills, Decision Making, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict

A strong facilitator should understand and appreciate the value of argumentation, specifically meeting argumentation....

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