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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>Sourcing Innovative Ideas and Managing New Product Concepts (3 of 3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2022 12:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The purpose of this article is to help you manage and facilitate the transformation of the abstract (sourcing innovative ideas) into the concrete (managing new product concepts). We hope you beg, borrow, steal, and modify heavily from our technique called Product Concept Management (PCM or Catalyst). Whereas this is the third of three connecting articles, [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Converting New Product Ideas into Polished Product Concepts (2 of 3)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Facilitation Expert]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2022 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Product Concept Management (PCM or Catalyst) is the technique of designing, implementing, and continuously managing the ideation, gathering, qualifying, maintenance, archiving, and evaluation of new product ideas into fully polished concepts. This article advances facilitation training through a 3-step method you can use to transform new product ideas into innovative sources of revenue and increased [&#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>Why Meeting Participants Have An Obligation To Contribute</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2021 12:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Many articles talk about getting meeting participants involved. Seriously? If the meeting output impacts participants’ quality of life, how much money they make, who works for them, etc., rest assured, they will add their point of view, if asked. However, if the meeting output, frequently called a deliverable, does not affect them, they should not [&#8230;]</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[Gherkin Syntax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Requirements Gathering]]></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>Remember the WHY Before the WHAT &#8211;  An Integrative Problem Solving Framework and Agenda</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2020 02:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Searching for a problem solving approach proven to work in a variety of situations?   Whether you’re a group of highly paid nuclear physicists designing a new multimillion-dollar scanner or a group of unpaid volunteers supporting the growth of a children’s choir, you need to know how to move collaboratively from where you are to [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://mgrush.com/blog/problem-solving/">Remember the WHY Before the WHAT &#8211;  An Integrative Problem Solving Framework and Agenda</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>
		<category><![CDATA[meeting map]]></category>
		<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>
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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>
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		<title>30 Powerful Questions to Change the Point of View in Meetings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2017 05:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Too often, we rush straight to asking for the deliverable. For instance, if the goal is to develop a plan to mitigate burnout in the IT Service Department, we tend to jump to ‘solving’ by immediately asking for ideas on what actions to take. MG RUSH structured facilitation training embraces an evidence-based management approach that [&#8230;]</p>
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