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...

Remember the WHY Before the WHAT – An Integrative Problem Solving Framework and Agenda

Nov 9, 2020 | Analysis Methods, Decision Making, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools, Problem Solving

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 . . .

Sep 8, 2020 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

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!

Jul 2, 2020 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

Research conducted by professor Cynthia Rudin of M.I.T. and student Been Kim, on highly effective words for business...

Develop the Basis for a Successful Meeting or Workshop in Four Easy Steps

Meeting Agendas, Meeting Support

Here is how to develop the basis for a successful meeting framework in four easy steps. To prepare your meeting...

Appreciative Inquiry — A Facilitative Path for the Future

Planning Approach

Organizations seeking to change HOW they work use consider Appreciative Inquiry. The Appreciative Inquiry approach...

94 Different Purposes of Meetings Yield Three Common Themes

Meeting Agendas

While by no means ‘exhaustive,’ we researched and assembled various meeting types and purposes of meetings from dozens...

Core Competency: Planning Changes Minds, Not Simply Make Plans

Meeting Support, Planning Approach

Facilitating a planning session makes you a change agent. Because even President Eisenhower (then General) was known...

Decision Types: Understanding the Time and Place for Individual or Group Decisions

Decision Making, Planning Approach

The continuum of leadership behavior provides one context for understanding the best time and place for individual...

When Smart People Make Dumb Decisions – SMART vs DUMB?

Analysis Methods, Communication Skills, Decision Making

Smart vs Dumb? According to experts in an emerging field called the Science of Choice, everyone can learn to make...

Balanced Scorecard Demands Strategy-Focused Facilitation

Decision Making, Prioritizing

Five principles of successful organizations emerged from Kaplan and Norton’s research on successful Balanced Scorecard...

Payoff Matrix — Quick Wins, Tried and True, or Hail Mary Passes

Decision Making, Meeting Structure, Prioritizing

Quick Wins are found in the Payoff Matrix shown in the “two by two” below provides the classic means of prioritizing...

Meetings and Workshops — Differences and Characteristics

Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure

If it seems that workshops are actually well-run meetings, that is true to a large degree. Well-run meetings and...

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