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...
Remember the WHY Before the WHAT – An Integrative Problem Solving Framework and Agenda
Searching for a problem solving approach proven to work in a variety of situations? Whether you’re a group of highly paid nuclear physicists designing a new multimillion-dollar scanner or a group of unpaid volunteers supporting the growth of a...
Collaborate Or Die – How Failing To Collaborate Could Ruin More Than Just Your Next Meeting
In life, there is usually more than one right answer, but there is always a wrong attitude—the unwillingness or failure to collaborate. As of this writing, the 2020 elections will be here in less than four weeks. While, like most Americans, you're...
This May Not Be For You, But if You Want to Build Collaboration . . .
Is it easy for you to build collaboration, commitment, and participation in meetings? Then feel free to walk away from this article. If, however, you’re like most people, leading groups and teams toward a common goal, either remotely or in person,...
Online Meeting Problems (and Solutions!)
Most have you have seen the hilarious, but oh-so-real “A Conference Call (in Real Life)” by tRIPP and tYLER (22 million views) that mocks dozens of common online meeting problems. While most of us now use video conferencing platforms like Microsoft...
5 Highly Effective Words for Business Meetings: Warning, Proceed With Caution!
Research conducted by professor Cynthia Rudin of M.I.T. and student Been Kim, on highly effective words for business meetings, found that the words yeah, give, start, and meeting have a larger impact in meetings than other words. However, while the...
How to Lead Online Meetings: No Hiding and Practical Tips
Research consistently reports that the three biggest, challenges of leading online meetings are: Technology challenges Distractions (keeping participants engaged) Participant buy-in and hiding (video) In fact, running online meetings requires more...
Don’t Blame Meeting Failure on Your Online Meeting Technology
Whether you use Zoom, Teams, WebEx, GoToMeeting, or another online meeting technology, don’t blame the failure of your online meetings on technology. Why? Because you need to know what to do before you change how you do it. Just as an engineer...
Quick Tips For More Effective Meetings
Today we bring you quick tips for more effective meetings. "Distribution Talk With Jason Bader", a podcast that exposes... "... the stories, struggles, and solutions from interesting characters who have chosen to make a career in the distribution...
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 meetings, little (if any) structured training has...
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 selection of the facilitator. Break that down...
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 expensive, deliverable. It could be a small,...
How To Save Your Meeting With A ‘Special’ Meeting Break
Think of a meeting break as a pressure relief valve. Under normal circumstances, a standard ten-minute break, every seventy-five minutes or so, allows participants to decompress so they can return to the meeting refreshed and on track. However,...
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 focus on creating better leaders, the truth is,...
Facilitator Training 101: Four Required Roles Supporting Effective Facilitation
We all have skills to perform many roles in life, such as switching quickly between parent and child when attending a family gathering, or switching quickly between friend and customer when shopping or dining with a significant other. Likewise,...
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