Compelling Reasons for Structured Meetings | Positive Impact on Stakeholders
Using structured meetings with facilitation and professional meeting design quickly gets people to focus on the right question at the right time. Structured meetings capture broad and specific wisdom by sticking to facts. Groups fail (or operate at...
Ignite Your Will and Create Meaningful Change in Your Community
In Brian Aull’s book The Triad: Three Civic Virtues That Could Save American Democracy, you’ll find an insightful approach to living in any democracy. For over a decade, the MG Rush Leadership Technique has also promoted a ‘trivium.’ The "Law of...
94 Different Purposes of Meetings Yield Three Common Themes
While by no means ‘exhaustive,’ we researched and assembled various meeting types and purposes of meetings from dozens of sources, too many to provide attribution for a brief blog (write us if you want more detail). Therefore, we found it humorous...
Core Competency: Planning Changes Minds, Not Simply Make Plans
Facilitating a planning session makes you a change agent. Because even President Eisenhower (then General) was known to say, “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” While an effective...
Decision Types: Understanding the Time and Place for Individual or Group Decisions
The continuum of leadership behavior provides one context for understanding the best time and place for individual decisions versus group decisions. That continuum, as illustrated below, ranges from the completely subordinate-centered approach to...
When Smart People Make Dumb Decisions – SMART vs DUMB?
Smart vs Dumb? According to experts in an emerging field called the Science of Choice, everyone can learn to make higher-quality decisions. In fact, smart people make dumb decisions with alarming regularity. Or, they speak using vague verbs that...
Balanced Scorecard Demands Strategy-Focused Facilitation
Five principles of successful organizations emerged from Kaplan and Norton’s research on successful Balanced Scorecard adaptors. Hence, the five principles describe the key elements of building an organization that can focus on strategy while...
Payoff Matrix — Quick Wins, Tried and True, or Hail Mary Passes
Quick Wins are found in the Payoff Matrix shown in the “two by two” below provides the classic means of prioritizing your options. Using return (i.e., Impact of the Solution) and investment (i.e., Cost of Implementation, typically time or money) as...
Meetings and Workshops — Differences and Characteristics
If it seems that workshops are actually well-run meetings, that is true to a large degree. Well-run meetings and facilitated workshops share similarities. The primary differences between meetings and workshops become evident with the...
Do Facilitators Need to be Subject Matter Experts? Content vs. Context
Some of the best facilitators are NOT Subject Matter Experts within the topic and scope of the discussion. However, they cannot afford to be subject matter ignorant. They need to be subject matter conversant and understand the terms being used....
10 Facilitation Secrets with Facilitation’s Secret Sauce Explained
Prepared originally as a "Lunch and Learn Guide," you will find twelve MGRUSH Structured Facilitation secrets followed by a thorough explanation of Facilitation's Secret Sauce. The facilitation secrets are bulleted in alphabetical order, rather...
9 Components of a Structured Meeting or Workshop
A facilitated structured meeting or workshop provides an environment designed to extract high-quality information in a compressed timeframe. A structured meeting uses visual aids and a team of experts to accelerate projects and increase the quality...
Meeting Impact: Poor Facilitation Leads to Problems, Struggles, and Errors
A primary concern in meetings and information-gathering activities is getting good information—to build the right product the first time—and to make well-informed decisions. Significant trends show that groups are embedding the role of...
Dealing with Anger – Only One Letter Short of Danger
When dealing with anger, first understand that anger is as normal as any other emotion. We simply expect or want things to be different or better. Most people direct their anger at those who have some control over them. However, anger can be...
6 Potent Ways to Facilitate Meeting Conflict Response and Manage Conflict
Facilitators must understand and manage meeting conflicts. Therefore, we must first understand our own internal conflict so that we are prepared to serve others. Critically, we should view our meeting conflict response as both a challenge and an...
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