Meeting Agendas Articles

Don’t Just Start Meetings, LAUNCH Them in 5 Minutes or Less

Successful meetings and workshops comprise three essential phases: a beginning, a middle, and an end. Yet, meetings often fail because leaders ignore the importance of one or more of these. In this...

Decision Quality Focuses on ‘WHAT’ is Right, NOT ‘WHO’ is Right

Decision-making frequently considers fuzzy information, fuzzy implications, and fuzzy thinking. To reduce fuzziness, and improve decision quality, lead your group to focus on What is right, NOT Who...

The Power of Questions — Why Leading with Questions Improves Meetings

The HBR (Harvard Business Review) article, The Surprising Power of Questions by Professors Alison Wood Brooks and Leslie K. John declares that “the secret to being more likable and improving...

How to Build Trust As a Meeting Facilitator

Whether you're facilitating a complex meeting or a daily standup, if your meeting participants don't trust you (or your methods), they will not trust the meeting results. Robin Dreeke, of People...

How To Facilitate Vague Indicators into SMART Measures and Criteria

Sep 7, 2023 | Decision Making, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools, Prioritizing

Meeting participants don't argue about verbs and nouns, they argue about modifiers. Modifiers include adjectives,...

Don’t Just Start Meetings, LAUNCH Them in 5 Minutes or Less

Aug 22, 2023 | Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure

Successful meetings and workshops comprise three essential phases: a beginning, a middle, and an end. Yet, meetings...

Decision Quality Focuses on ‘WHAT’ is Right, NOT ‘WHO’ is Right

Aug 8, 2023 | Meeting Structure

Decision-making frequently considers fuzzy information, fuzzy implications, and fuzzy thinking. To reduce fuzziness,...

Best One-Page Meeting Agenda Template Plus Three Workshop Agendas

Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure

Regardless of their personal style, experts and professionals who lead effective meetings rely on a simple, one-page...

Why Meeting Participants Have An Obligation To Contribute

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

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

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...

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

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 . . .

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!

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...

How to Lead Online Meetings: No Hiding and Practical Tips

Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools

Research consistently reports that the three biggest, challenges of leading online meetings are: Technology challenges...

Don’t Blame Meeting Failure on Your Online Meeting Technology

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

Whether you use Zoom, Teams, WebEx, GoToMeeting, or another online meeting technology, don’t blame the failure of your...

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