Meeting Support Articles

Three Behaviors Guaranteed to Build Consensus

Meetings capture a huge investment of time. Unproductive meetings affect your cash flow, morale, and the potential growth of your biggest asset, your people. As frequent and important as we attend...

Internal or External Facilitator? 20 Questions to Help You Decide.

"Should we use an internal or external facilitator?" Good question. Everyone has experienced good and not-so-good facilitators. All too frequently, the ‘poor’ experiences can be attributed to the...

Meeting Methodologist or Meeting Designer? A Rhetorical Shift.

Clients frequently contact us about facilitating a meeting or workshop on behalf of an individual or organization. It might be a large, multi-national firm planning a complicated, and potentially...

Ingredients on How To Rescue a Bad Meeting

Meetings are necessary. But not all meetings are good. To be more precise, not all meetings are run well. But how can you rescue a bad meeting if you’re not the one leading it? While our workshops...

This May Not Be For You, But if You Want to Build Collaboration . . .

Sep 8, 2020 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

Is it easy for you to build collaboration, commitment, and participation in meetings? Then feel free to walk away from...

5 Highly Effective Words for Business Meetings: Warning, Proceed With Caution!

Jul 2, 2020 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support

Research conducted by professor Cynthia Rudin of M.I.T. and student Been Kim, on highly effective words for business...

Quick Tips For More Effective Meetings

Apr 4, 2020 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

Today we bring you quick tips for more effective meetings. "Distribution Talk With Jason Bader", a podcast that...

Five Compelling Business Reasons To Use Structured Facilitation Sessions

Communication Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Support

The most important action you take every day is to make choices--to decide. Your productivity amplifies when your...

How To Manage Challenging Personality Types to Avoid Problems in Meetings

Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

A problem person causes a meeting distraction. Their message is ineffective because some characteristic gets in the...

MG RUSH Certified, Professional, Endorsed Facilitators are Helping to Solve World Problems

Leadership Skills, Meeting Support

MGRUSH Certified, Professional, Endorsed Facilitators are truly special. Thousands of alumni have earned promotions to...

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

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

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

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...

Ground Rules and Ideation Rules for Optimal Group Behavior in Meetings

Managing Conflict, Meeting Support

Use ground rules to help manage individual and group behavior during meetings and workshops. You can lead meetings and...

Becoming an Unconsciously Competent Facilitator

Facilitation Skills, Meeting Support

To become an unconsciously competent facilitator, you first become conscious and then competent. As you progress and...

Meeting Documenter Accountability – If it isn’t documented, it didn’t happen.

Meeting Support

Don't overlook the importance of your meeting documenter or documentation support. The document produced from an...

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