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How to Facilitate SMEs to Categorize Lists of Ideas and Inputs

One of the worst questions a facilitator could ask is "How would you like to categorize these?" They don't know how. That's why they hired you. Categorizing and creating clusters of related items...

Rhetorical Precision: A Strategic Approach to Facilitation and Decision-Making for High-Stakes Projects

For project managers and product owners overseeing multi-million-dollar projects, the ability to facilitate impactful meetings with rhetorical precision and clarity is critical. The role of...

How To Facilitate Vague Indicators into SMART Measures and Criteria

Meeting participants don’t argue about verbs and nouns, they argue about modifiers. Modifiers include adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions. For example… Facilitating the transformation...

Proven Methods for Managing Any and All Meeting Conflicts

No method anywhere can show you how to facilitate a resolution for ALL meeting conflicts. Sometimes, people or parties refuse to agree simply because they dislike each other. Yet while you may not...

Meeting Killers: Eight Ways to Kill A Meeting and Your Reputation

Aug 10, 2017 | Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

Below are eight habits we call meeting killers that every facilitator, or meeting leader, must avoid. Neglect to...

How to Use the Principles of Agile’s Daily Scrum in Your Staff Meetings

Jun 1, 2017 | Meeting Tools, Scrum Events

There are good meetings and there are long meetings but there aren’t many good, long meetings. Therefore,...

Strengthen Product Vision with a Flexibility Matrix: A Practical Lens on the Triple Constraint

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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