Executive Presence Strengthens Your Meeting Facilitation Skills
In “Executive Presence: The Missing Link Between Merit and Success,” Sylvia Ann Hewlett affirms that executive presence is “an amalgam of qualities that telegraphs that you are in charge or deserve to be.” Fortunately, you don’t need to be born...
Sourcing Innovative Ideas and Managing New Product Concepts (3 of 3)
The purpose of this article is to help you manage and facilitate the transformation of the abstract (sourcing innovative ideas) into the concrete (managing new product concepts). We hope you beg, borrow, steal, and modify heavily from our technique...
Continuous Team Building Provides Significant Advantages
As defined in Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, a team is “two or more draft animals harnessed to the same vehicle or implement." Okay, this may not be how you think of your team, but think about it--it’s a great description of what a successful...
Converting New Product Ideas into Polished Product Concepts (2 of 3)
Product Concept Management (PCM or Catalyst) is the technique of designing, implementing, and continuously managing the ideation, gathering, qualifying, maintenance, archiving, and evaluation of new product ideas into fully polished concepts. This...
Myths and Gremlins of New Product Concept Management (PCM)
Our last article launched a method for managing new product ideas called Catalyst or PCM Now we take a step back before explaining the activities (next article) to tackle some of the myths and gremlins associated with new product concept management...
Boost Your Product Innovation through Catalyst Workshops (1 of 3)
The purpose of this article is to prepare you with a workshop approach, including the method and tools you can use to increase product innovation in your workshops --- to speed up product development based on structuring the voice of your customer....
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, not enough time. What you need is a quick...
A Facilitator’s Guide to Building Better Meetings (Meetings That Get Results !)
The Purpose There’s nothing more frustrating than an unproductive meeting—except one that leads to another unproductive meeting. Which is why I wrote Meetings That Get Results. Developed from over 17+ years of research, delivery, and practice,...
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 them fresh, current, and vibrant. Some Facilitation...
How to Lead Meetings That Increase Your “Executive Presence”
You may not think there's a difference between being proficient at organizing meetings versus being able to lead meetings. There is! Some people can do both. And if well trained, can do both well. However, many organizations discover too late—which...
The Servant Leader Solution Benefits Everyone
FEAR: F#©% Everything And Run If the thought of change instills the FUD factor in you (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) you’re not alone. Fear of change keeps people in relationships they’ve outgrown, jobs they don’t like, and even hairstyles that no...
Best One-Page Meeting Agenda Template Plus Three Workshop Agendas
Regardless of their personal style, experts and professionals who lead effective meetings rely on a simple, one-page meeting agenda. (Templates for which we've included .docx and .rtf links for you to download below.) This meeting agenda template...
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 assured, they will add their point of view, if asked....
How Scenario Planning Helps Prevent Missing Requirements
Poor requirements don’t impede projects, missing requirements do. Experience has taught us that one approach stands above all others when you want to scour for missing requirements—consider ‘dry runs’ by using various scenarios found in scenario...
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 fuzzy. Yet a positive attitude, such as an attitude of...
Stop wasting time and money!
With Meetings That Get Results, you’ll learn how to lead meetings that produce clear and actionable results every time. More important, how to avoid the worst possible outcome from any meeting—another meeting!
Developed from over 17+ years of research, delivery, and practice, including 15,000+ hours providing live instruction using Certified curriculum, Meetings That Get Results provides you with the tools and methods necessary to lead meetings that generate clear and actionable results, with deliverables that participants both understand and own.
“An essential handbook for any leader or facilitator of meetings. Especially as we have transitioned to more remote-based collaboration, I value all the tips to lead global team meetings.”
— Sana A. Manjeshwar, Global Principal Ombuds Manager, Chevron