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		<title>Ten Key Deliverables Every Meeting Participant Has the Right to Expect</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>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 provide at least ten clear outputs. Seven clear results from the Introduction and three outputs from the Wrap. Below is a checklist of the [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Facilitation Best Practices – 26 Articles To Help You Lead Better Meetings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2021 11:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>For over ten years, we have consistently posted articles on Facilitation Best Practices. Articles are written as facilitation training that helps you lead better meetings. Throughout, we have updated these articles to keep them fresh, current, and vibrant. Some Facilitation Best Practices articles include links to valuable downloads, such as our one-page meeting template agenda [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://mgrush.com/blog/facilitation-best-practices/">Facilitation Best Practices – 26 Articles To Help You Lead Better Meetings</a> appeared first on <a href="https://mgrush.com/blog">MG RUSH Facilitation Best Practices Blog</a>.</p>
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		<title>How Scenario Planning Helps Prevent Missing Requirements</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2021 12:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Problem Solving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gherkin Syntax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Requirements Gathering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scenario planning]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>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 runs’ by using various scenarios found in scenario planning. Strive to build a range of understanding from the sunny and optimistic “sunny skies” (best case—rare) through the [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://mgrush.com/blog/scenario-planning/">How Scenario Planning Helps Prevent Missing Requirements</a> appeared first on <a href="https://mgrush.com/blog">MG RUSH Facilitation Best Practices Blog</a>.</p>
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		<title>Your Meeting Pathway to Success and Supplemental Workshop Canvas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2019 18:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Julia Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meeting canvas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[meeting pathway]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>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 can be expensive and wasteful, especially when poorly prepared. Therefore, download a PDF of the Meeting Pathway guide and Workshop Canvas [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://mgrush.com/blog/workshop-canvas/">Your Meeting Pathway to Success and Supplemental Workshop Canvas</a> appeared first on <a href="https://mgrush.com/blog">MG RUSH Facilitation Best Practices Blog</a>.</p>
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		<title>How to Facilitate Speakers and Conference Presentations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2019 18:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>During a four-day conference, we facilitated more than 20 speakers and varying presentations, each citing distinctive topics ranging from embracing social responsibility to utilizing Google® Hangouts for small groups. Participants applauded our approach, and we decided to share it here to help you become a more effective facilitator. Challenges Associated with Facilitating Speakers and Conference [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://mgrush.com/blog/facilitate-speakers-conferences/">How to Facilitate Speakers and Conference Presentations</a> appeared first on <a href="https://mgrush.com/blog">MG RUSH Facilitation Best Practices Blog</a>.</p>
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		<title>How to Build Action Plans with Shared Ownership and Accountability</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alignment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[current situation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[How to build action plan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mission]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>To build an action plan (or, a strategic plan) that transfers ownership and accountability to your meeting participants, begin with the right questions, in the right sequence. Be one of the few facilitators who understand that ownership transfers instantly because participants offer their own  &#8220;WHO does WHAT by WHEN,&#8221;  the primary components of any action [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Designing Strategy Execution, by William Malek</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Malek]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2017 05:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A.T. Kearney published the results of a 2014 Strategy Study with over 2,000 global executives on strategy trends, challenges, and opportunities. Here are some key findings worth highlighting that relate to the design of strategy execution. 1. 46% percent of global strategies fail broadly or don&#8217;t deliver I have heard these kinds of stats for [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Appreciative Inquiry &#8212; A Facilitative Path for the Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2015 04:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Organizations seeking to change HOW they work use consider Appreciative Inquiry. The Appreciative Inquiry approach evaluates various viewpoints to create an evolutionary path for the future. It leverages brainstorming, prioritizing, sub-teams, and various other tools we’ve explained in other Best Practices articles, putting them in the context of: “ . . . study and exploration [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Core Competency: Planning Changes Minds, Not Simply Make Plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2015 04:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Meeting Support]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[change minds with planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change or be changed]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[From Planning to Rewards]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Facilitating a planning session makes you a change agent. Because even President Eisenhower (then General) was known to say, “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” While an effective facilitator keeps their group focused on the meeting output (i.e., deliverable), the real work begins when the [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Decision Types: Understanding the Time and Place for Individual or Group Decisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2015 04:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Decision Making]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[building consensus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[group decisions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guard Against Bias]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The continuum of leadership behavior provides one context for understanding the best time and place for individual decisions versus group decisions. That continuum, as illustrated below, ranges from the completely subordinate-centered approach to the completely leader-centered approach. In between these extremes are another four types that blend or offset the “center” perspective. &#160; Both approaches [&#8230;]</p>
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