Meeting Tools Articles

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...

Remember the WHY Before the WHAT – An Integrative Problem Solving Framework and Agenda

Nov 9, 2020 | Analysis Methods, Decision Making, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools, Problem Solving

Searching for a problem solving approach proven to work in a variety of situations? Whether you’re a group of highly...

Online Meeting Problems (and Solutions!)

Aug 11, 2020 | Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Tools

Most have you have seen the hilarious, but oh-so-real “A Conference Call (in Real Life)” by tRIPP and tYLER (22...

How to Lead Online Meetings: No Hiding and Practical Tips

Jun 5, 2020 | Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools

Research consistently reports that the three biggest, challenges of leading online meetings are: Technology challenges...

Kanban or Scrum: Pick the Right Workflow Tool

Meeting Tools, Scrum Events

Guest post by Christian Golden, Ph.D. In the world of content and product development, Kanban and Scrum are two of the...

Do NOT Attempt a Design Sprint Without a Professional Facilitator

Decision Making, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools, Scrum Events

What is a Design Sprint? Created at Google Ventures, a Design Sprint represents a methodology that helps teams...

Don’t Ruin Your Scrum Sprints — Facilitate Scrum Events Using These Agendas

Meeting Agendas, Meeting Tools, Scrum Events

The Agile mindset demands frequent, and continuing, interaction among its stakeholders. Perhaps more so with Scrum,...

Advanced Real-Win-Worth Screening Method that Supports Strategic Decisions

Analysis Methods, Decision Making, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools

Previously, we defined ‘best’ as projects that performed well in an innovation test, focusing on the...

Risk Analysis – Method and Questions to Facilitate A Portfolio of Projects

Analysis Methods, Meeting Tools, Prioritizing, Prioritizing

Project portfolios focused on the best opportunities, and accelerate innovation. So how do you build consensus around...

How to Build Action Plans with Shared Ownership and Accountability

Leadership Skills, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools, Planning Approach

To build an action plan (or, a strategic plan) that transfers ownership and accountability to your meeting...

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

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

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

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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