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Meeting Preparation – How to Quickly Prepare Meetings for Results

Activities and Basic Agenda Approach for Meeting Preparation In an ideal world, you have ample time for meeting preparation. But in the real world, you're swamped. Too much work, too many meetings,...

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...

Why Meeting Participants Have An Obligation To Contribute

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...

Powerful Facilitation, Gratitude, and Scrum Guide 2020

While an attitude of gratitude promotes more powerful facilitation, you won’t hear the term ‘happy’ very often in one of our meetings, sessions, or workshops, as the word is both subjective and...

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Boost Your Product Innovation through Catalyst Workshops (1 of 3)

Nov 4, 2021 | Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

The purpose of this article is to prepare you with a workshop approach, including the method and tools you can use to...

Meeting Preparation – How to Quickly Prepare Meetings for Results

Oct 12, 2021 | Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

Activities and Basic Agenda Approach for Meeting Preparation In an ideal world, you have ample time for meeting...

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...

Takeaways from the Global SCRUM Gathering and Control the Room

Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Support, Scrum Events

The Global SCRUM GATHERING® Austin was kicked off on a warm Monday morning in May by Daniel Pink. Because his research...

Why facilitation remains an important skill for innovation and success

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

This month we're reposting an interview by Douglas Ferguson with Terrence Metz, Managing Director of MGRUSH...

Don’t Run! How to Manage Meeting Conflict

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

A meeting without conflict is a boring meeting, and we've seen very little value derived from predictable and...

Liberating Structures Design Sprint Plan Contributed by Alumni and Guest, Douglas Ferguson

Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

Using Methods From Liberating Structures to Create a Robust Design Sprint Plan MG RUSH welcomes Douglas Ferguson as an...

Facilitative Leadership – How Novice Facilitators Can Succeed Quickly

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

Using the principles of facilitative leadership, novice facilitators will succeed when they draw a line of sight from...

How to Facilitate Multiple Generations — All the Time

Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

Staying relevant and compelling when you facilitate multiple generations presents significant challenges. Problems...

12 Critical Facilitation Do’s and Don’ts to Lead Successful Meetings and Workshops

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

Our readers and students have clamored for a quick-reference checklist of the most important facilitation Do’s and...

Critical Questions to Answer with the Business Model Canvas

Communication Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

The Business Model Canvas was created by Alexander Osterwalder, of Strategyzer®. The canvas provides a one-page primer...

How Structured Facilitation Training Can Save Your Arse and Boost Your Career

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

Structured meetings and workshops positively impact organizations and stakeholders--even permeating cultures. Here are...

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