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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...
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,...
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...
How to Lead Online Meetings: No Hiding and Practical Tips
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
Whether you use Zoom, Teams, WebEx, GoToMeeting, or another online meeting technology, don’t blame the failure of your...
Internal or External Facilitator? 20 Questions to Help You Decide.
"Should we use an internal or external facilitator?" Good question. Everyone has experienced good and not-so-good...
Meeting Methodologist or Meeting Designer? A Rhetorical Shift.
Clients frequently contact us about facilitating a meeting or workshop on behalf of an individual or organization. It...
How To Save Your Meeting With A ‘Special’ Meeting Break
Think of a meeting break as a pressure relief valve. Under normal circumstances, a standard ten-minute break, every...
Ingredients on How To Rescue a Bad Meeting
Meetings are necessary. But not all meetings are good. To be more precise, not all meetings are run well. But how can...
STOP! Were We Even In The Same Meeting?
Daniel Pink’s newest research proves that the end of a meeting is more important than the beginning. Endings...
Takeaways from the Global SCRUM Gathering and Control the Room
The Global SCRUM GATHERING® Austin was kicked off on a warm Monday morning in May by Daniel Pink. Because his research...
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