Planning Approach Articles

A Meeting Participant Has the Right to Expect Ten Deliverables

Even lousy movies and novels have three components: a beginning, a middle, and an end. A meeting participant (or ceremony, event, session, or workshop) should expect every session they attend to...

Facilitation Best Practices – 26 Articles To Help You Lead Better Meetings

For over ten years, we have consistently posted articles on Facilitation Best Practices. Articles are written to help you lead better meetings. Throughout, we have updated these articles to keep...

How Scenario Planning Helps Prevent Missing Requirements

Poor requirements don’t impede projects, missing requirements do. Experience has taught us that one approach stands above all others when you want to scour for missing requirements—consider ‘dry...

Your Meeting Pathway to Success and Supplemental Workshop Canvas

Over the years, students and alumni have clamored for a simple reference sheet of our curriculum and how to prepare for a meeting. Consequently, we think we have it now and hope you agree. Meetings...

Facilitation Best Practices – 26 Articles To Help You Lead Better Meetings

Aug 12, 2021 | Analysis Methods, Communication Skills, Decision Making, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools, Planning Approach, Problem Solving, Scrum Events

For over ten years, we have consistently posted articles on Facilitation Best Practices. Articles are written to help...

How Scenario Planning Helps Prevent Missing Requirements

Jan 5, 2021 | 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...

Your Meeting Pathway to Success and Supplemental Workshop Canvas

Jul 5, 2019 | Analysis Methods, Decision Making, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools, Planning Approach, Problem Solving

Over the years, students and alumni have clamored for a simple reference sheet of our curriculum and how to prepare...

How to Facilitate Speakers and Conference Presentations

Analysis Methods, Decision Making, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools, Planning Approach, Problem Solving

During a four-day conference, we facilitated more than 20 speakers and varying presentations, each citing distinctive...

How to Build Action Plans with Shared Ownership and Accountability

Leadership Skills, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools, Planning Approach

To build an action plan (or, a strategic plan) that transfers ownership and accountability to your meeting...

Designing Strategy Execution, by William Malek

Leadership Skills, Planning Approach

A.T. Kearney published the results of a 2014 Strategy Study with over 2,000 global executives on strategy trends,...

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...

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...

A Simple Planning Agenda for Agreeing on WHO Does WHAT by WHEN

Analysis Methods, Planning Approach

Any type of descriptive or prescriptive plan, process, or series of activities can then be illustrated with a...

Group Decision-Making: Focus on Strategic, Operational, OR Tactical Issues

Planning Approach, Prioritizing

Scope creep wreaks havoc on projects and group decision-making. Meetings also spin out of control because the leader...

The Purpose Tool: Building the Strategic Plan for a Function, Process, Activity or Product

Meeting Tools, Planning Approach, Problem Solving

Assuredly, organizational executives are known to go off-site to conduct strategic planning sessions, building...

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