{"id":453185955,"count":54,"description":"<h1>Meeting Tools<\/h1>\r\nThese articles provide additional <em>Meeting<\/em>\u00a0<i>Tools<\/i>\u00a0and highlights a few significant differences between facilitating in-person meetings and facilitating online meetings (without exploring or favoring specific application programs, brands, or technologies). While many facilitation experts recommend twice as much preparation time to get ready for online meetings (along with having two facilitators), I take a more practical approach, providing tips that will help you, the solo practitioner, prepare faster and complete on time while facilitating alone.\r\n\r\nA few special <em>Meeting<\/em>\u00a0<i>Tools<\/i> and <i>Meeting<\/i> <i>Approaches<\/i> that I\u2019ve learned to love. And for those of you also subjected to staff or board meetings, there are some special controls to help you get done faster, as leader <i>or<\/i> participant.\r\n<h3>REMINDER<\/h3>\r\nIf you know WHAT to do in the role of meeting leader, you will find it remarkably easy to change how you do it. Once you integrate clear thinking about your meeting design, you could scratch their comments in sand or post them in the cloud, it doesn\u2019t matter HOW you do it when you want to build consensus. All methods, whether in person or online require leadership line of sight, active listening, and appropriate meeting design and tools. In truth, most people that \u2018fail\u2019 online are not particularly effective in person either.\r\n\r\nSubstantial and vital supplements such as the golden rule and the \u201csilver rule,\u201d <i>Quick<\/i> <i>References<\/i>, and other <em>Meeting<\/em>\u00a0<i>Tools.<\/i>","link":"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/category\/meeting-tools\/","name":"Meeting Tools","slug":"meeting-tools","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Meeting Tools Archives &#187; MG RUSH Facilitation Best Practices Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Meeting tools and support from \u201chip-pocket\u201d Intervention tools for special and un-planned meeting challenges to online and hybrid meeting differences.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/category\/meeting-tools\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meeting Tools Archives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Meeting tools and support from \u201chip-pocket\u201d Intervention tools for special and un-planned meeting challenges to online and hybrid meeting differences.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/category\/meeting-tools\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"MG RUSH Facilitation Best Practices Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@terrencemetz\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"CollectionPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mgrush.com\\\/blog\\\/category\\\/meeting-tools\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mgrush.com\\\/blog\\\/category\\\/meeting-tools\\\/\",\"name\":\"Meeting Tools Archives &#187; 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