Meeting Support Articles

Ensuring Meeting Inclusiveness — How to Value Diversity & Plurality

The primary responsibility of a facilitator is to protect the participants. Furthermore, the facilitator helps drive the group toward its desired deliverable. Since the deliverable is built to serve...

Use the Fist of Five to Test for Consensus on Contextual Issues

The Fist of Five approach combines the speed of thumbs up/ down and displays the degrees of agreement that can support more complicated decision spectrums. Using this tool, people vote using their...

Frequent Meeting Problems and What You Should Do About Them

Ever develop that sense of deja vu about not getting anywhere during a meeting? Meeting problems are indicative of resistance that is generated during a meeting. However, resistance can be prevented...

How to Be Precise with Three Meeting Transition Questions: Do NOT Ask “How Do You Solve Global Hunger?”

Meeting Transition questions is highly effective because you cannot develop a plan, any plan, such as a marketing plan, by asking "What is the marketing plan?" The question is so broad as to be...

The New Science of Teamwork: Is It New or Simply MG RUSH Professional Facilitation At Work?

Mar 16, 2017 | Facilitation Skills, Meeting Support

The lead article in the March-April (2017) Harvard Business Review reads like a promotion for our MG RUSH Professional...

Presenter Tips: How To Simply Make Your Presentations More Facilitative

Feb 23, 2017 | Communication Skills, Meeting Support

Research by the National Speakers’ Association shows that becoming more facilitative (i.e., more interactive or...

Triple Constraint Theory: Use a Flexibility Matrix to Fortify Product Vision

Feb 16, 2017 | Leadership Skills, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools, Prioritizing

Triple constraint theory suggests that it is not realistic to expect to build the fastest, the cheapest, and the...

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