Meeting Agendas Articles

Ensuring Meeting Inclusiveness — How to Value Diversity & Plurality

The primary responsibility of a facilitator is to protect the participants. Furthermore, the facilitator helps drive the group toward its desired deliverable. Since the deliverable is built to serve...

Scope Creep Kills: Facilitate Concern, Influence, and Control

Scope creep kills projects. It also kills meetings. The consensual sphere of Concern, Influence, and Control helps a group become mindful of aspects that could alter the group's attitudes, beliefs,...

Use the Fist of Five to Test for Consensus on Contextual Issues

The Fist of Five approach combines the speed of thumbs up/ down and displays the degrees of agreement that can support more complicated decision spectrums. Using this tool, people vote using their...

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

Strongly encouraged by Steve Jobs, as mentioned in his biography by Walter Isaacson, here is how to facilitate reducing some possible actions a team should consider, down to the final three or four...

Work Breakdown Structure Increases Focus and Reduces Scope Creep

May 25, 2017 | Analysis Methods, Meeting Structure

Experienced facilitators understand both the challenge and value of getting a group to focus on the same thing at the...

Evidence-based Meeting Design Improves the Agility of Your Group

May 18, 2017 | Meeting Agendas, Scrum Events

The Economist reports that “Some apartment building owners now require tenants to provide a DNA sample of their dog so...

Six Strategy-Crushing Mistakes Organizations Make And How You Can Rise Above the Rubble

Mar 30, 2017 | Analysis Methods, Leadership Skills, Prioritizing

By Mark Morgan, CEO and Founder of StratEx Advisors, Inc. Oh, the mistakes organizations make. Business plans or...

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