Meeting Agendas Articles

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 might be a large, multi-national firm planning a complicated, and potentially...

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 seventy-five minutes or so, allows participants to decompress so they can return...

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 you rescue a bad meeting if you’re not the one leading it? While our workshops...

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 leave lasting impressions. Recency triumphs over primacy. And yet, how often have...

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...

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...

How the MGRush FAST Facilitation Technique Helps You Succeed

Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

One of the many approaches taught by MGRUSH in our Professional Certified meeting leadership training includes the...

3 Review Meetings: Operational, Strategic, and Strategy Renewal

Meeting Agendas, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

Deliverables should drive meetings, even review meetings. Meeting time is too expensive to conduct unstructured...

Unstructured Meeting Costs Rise: Use a Proven Structured Technique

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Agendas

Meeting costs to American businesses as a result of poorly run meetings (typically unstructured) continue to rise....

Facilitate Consensual Prioritization Using a Perceptual Map

Decision Making, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools

A perceptual map works well when the PowerBall approach is not robust enough, yet many of your attributes and criteria...

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...

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