{"id":11503,"date":"2020-05-05T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/?p=11503"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:07:00","slug":"online-meeting-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/online-meeting-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Blame Meeting Failure on Your Online Meeting Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Whether you use Zoom, Teams, WebEx, GoToMeeting, or another online meeting technology, don\u2019t blame the failure of your online meetings on technology. Why? Because you need to know <span style=\"color: #035993;\"><em>what to do<\/em><\/span> before you change <span style=\"color: #035993;\"><em>how you do it<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_11513\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\" https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/virtual-meeting\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11513\"><img wpfc-lazyload-disable=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11513\" class=\"wp-image-11513 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/shutterstock_548132164.jpg\" alt=\"Virtual meetings, Virtual meeting\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/shutterstock_548132164.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/shutterstock_548132164-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><center><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Don&#8217;t Blame Failure on Your Online Meeting Technology<\/strong><\/span><\/center><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Just as an engineer wouldn\u2019t attempt a complicated mathematical challenge on a calculator (or computer program) unless they first understood the process behind it, you, as the meeting leader or facilitator, shouldn&#8217;t attempt to lead an online meeting unless you understand meeting design and know how to lead meetings in person. In fact, once you know how to facilitate meetings, most of today&#8217;s online meeting technology becomes user-friendly. The point is, you need to understand what you&#8217;re doing, before you attempt to change how you&#8217;re doing it. <strong><em>(Consciousness before Competence!)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Even before Covid-19, people failed at leading meetings because they didn&#8217;t have an awareness of how to structure them, or know what techniques to use, to get more done faster. Those challenges have only intensified with the shift away from in-person encounters. To make matters worse, online meeting leaders are fumbling with electronic whiteboards, dominant personalities, and basic connectivity issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Where To Start?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Whether you&#8217;re teaching a class, organizing a league, or facilitating due diligence, your success depends on you knowing what to do, not how you do it. For example . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Teachers know what to include in a course syllabus. Once they do, it\u2019s simple to vary how they get this information to their students, whether it\u2019s online, oral, or print:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Course Description. &#8230;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Course Goals<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Learner Outcomes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Course Method, Technique, and Activities<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Grading Procedure<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Policies. and Scheduling<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">If you are leading events, meetings, or workshops, knowing WHAT to do to comes first. Only then can you modify and master HOW you do it. Regardless if you are meeting in person or live online, do the following and become a competent leader of online meeting technology. Become both conscious and competent with what to do and you can invest less time worrying about how you do it.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Top Seven: What To Do for Better Virtual Meetings Regardless of Online Meeting Technology<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h4><strong>DONE<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Know what DONE looks like, carefully and clearly articulate your deliverable. Need we say more? (\u201cStart with the end in mind.\u201d\u2014ok, we did)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Prepared<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Inform participants in advance with written statements about the meeting&#8217;s purpose, scope, deliverables, and simple agenda. Hard to imagine accepting a meeting without knowing these four items, but it happens all the time. At the very least, use our <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/agenda-template\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">50-minute meeting template<\/a> for these items. If you cannot fill out the template within five minutes, you are probably not ready to lead the meeting.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Neutrality<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Exhibit <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/servant-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">servant<\/a> leadership skills and remain neutral. There is usually more than one right answer. The fastest way to get a group of people to go quiet on you is to opine what you think. If you have the answer, then don\u2019t have the meeting. Additionally, if you want one single tip on how to become a better facilitator overnight, stop using the first-person singular terms \u201cI\u201d and \u201cme\u201d as in \u201cI think . . .\u201d or \u201cPlease give me . . .\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Diversify<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Experiment. <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/innovation-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Innovate<\/a>. Challenge the obvious for proof. Stir things up. Try something new. Few techniques work better than shifting <em>Perspectives<\/em>. What would a monastery do differently from the mafia to manage this situation (or, vice versa)? What would Apple (Steve Jobs) do different with this design than Microsoft (Bill Gates)? How about Mother Nature (homeostasis)?<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Assignments<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">When asking for someone to be responsible for an assignment, never allow two people to share responsibility. One and only one, so that there is no finger pointing \u201cBut I thought Jake was working on it.\u201d Additionally, do not ask \u201cWho will do it?\u201d. Rather, ask \u201cWho will take responsibility for reporting back to the team on the status of this item?\u201d Frequently, the volunteer does not do it but assigns it to some of their staff when the meeting is finished. You are promoting effectiveness, as having one person contact many, is more effective than having many people contact one.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Open Issues<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Do not assign any single person big hairy issues that could result in one or more products or projects. Rather, treat your meeting output or \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/meeting-refrigerator\/\">Parking Lot<\/a>\u201d item as input to subsequent sessions when enough time has been allowed for breaking down the big issues into manageable, and compartmentalized assignments. <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/facilitate-speakers-conferences\/\"><em>Content Management <\/em><\/a>provides an excellent technique by structuring the next session to take the issue and explore the implications or why we should care. Next take each implication, one at a time, as ask \u201dWhat should we do about it?\u201d Answers to the \u201crecommendations\u201d question provide substance for the follow-up assignments.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><strong>Continuous Improvement<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Seek feedback and assessment about your preparedness, skills, and leadership for the meeting. We know from experience that conducting an open \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/presenter-tips\/\">Plus-Delta<\/a>\u201d yields mostly creature-comfort crap that doesn\u2019t do you any good. You don\u2019t control the temperature, lighting, or food quality. Culturally we are taught to be nice rather than kind. Therefore, no one tells you publicly that you said \u201cHum\u201d 37 times in five minutes, because we are being nice. The kind thing to do is tell you, albeit privately, so use a Post-Its activity in person or a whiteboard template online so that people can leave notes for you, protecting you while maintaining anonymity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div id=\"attachment_11517\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\" https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/virtual-meeting\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11517\" class=\"wp-image-11517 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1680627337-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Don't Blame The Failure of Your Virtual Meeting on Technology\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1680627337-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1680627337.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><center><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">What To Do for Faster Online Meetings (Efficiency)<\/span><\/strong><\/center><\/p><\/div>\n<h3><strong>Top Seven: What To Do for Faster Online Meetings (Efficiency)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h4><strong>Distribute in advance<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Distribute your list of detailed questions that need responses to participants in advance. Optimally, by meeting time, this is not the first time a participant has heard a question to which you are seeking responses. You need to take time to properly prepare for meetings and so should participants. Meetings are too expensive to treat lackadaisically (<em>a term you won\u2019t find in many blogs because it is a nightmare to spell<\/em>).<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Build a lexicon or glossary<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Control the operational definitions of terms being used. We don\u2019t have time to argue about the difference between a goal and an objective or a Mission and a Vision. These definitions should have been determined before your meeting. When such terms do get used, we should all strive to have a shared understanding of their meanings. For us by the way, objectives are <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/smart-objectives\/\"><em>SMART<\/em><\/a> measurements and goals are directional and fuzzy (subjective), but that is not true for all cultures and there is no universal standard or answer.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Explain the white space between the agenda items<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">We call this contextual control. Be prepared to explain what agenda steps contribute. Why are they sequenced as such? What is the relationship between the agenda steps and the deliverable? What do we need from each agenda step (i.e., deliverable) that will get us out of here faster? Few events bog a meeting down faster than when someone sucks the oxygen out of the room and questions, \u201cNow why are we doing this?\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Use ground rules and carefully define consensus<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Not as the ideal state, but rather as an agreed-upon decision or position that every participant commits to support, even if it happens to be no one person\u2019s favorite solution.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Maintain disciplined punctuality and timing<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Enforce the ground rule \u201cBe Here Now\u201d to discourage electronic leashes. <strong>Keep virtual meeting participants in an audible mode (NOT muted) to prevent multi-tasking, since keyboard sounds are easily heard<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Prevent scope creep<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Know your <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/holarchy\/\"><em>holarchy<\/em><\/a> and the scope of the question you are asking. The meeting scope decomposes into the scope for each agenda step and decomposes further into the scope of each question or activity. Know precisely where you are, or anyone can take control. When participants ask questions, they shift their role from meeting participant to meeting designer. Ever heard the expression, \u201cThat person has their own agenda.\u201d? You\u2019ve all heard about <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/scope-creep\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scope creep<\/a> and scope creep begins in poorly conducted meetings.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><strong>Be kind but, NOT too nice<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Challenge participants to provide evidence and objective support for their arguments and claims. Consensus gets built around underlying causes, not overt symptoms.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong>Top Seven: What To Do for Transferring Ownership from Online Meetings (Mindfulness)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_11519\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\" https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/virtual-meeting\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11519\" class=\"wp-image-11519 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_286343234-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"Don't Blame The Failure of Your Virtual Meeting on Technology\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_286343234-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_286343234.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><center><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">What To Do for Transferring Ownership (Mindfulness)<\/span><\/strong><\/center><\/p><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h4><strong>Importance<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Develop a quantitative understanding of the importance of the meeting. What is at risk if we fail? How much money is being invested or how much FTP (full-time person) is committed? Look at the potential value of the product or project you are supporting. If it fails, what have we lost?<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Responsibility<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Stress their fiduciary responsibility. You&#8217;re responsible for protecting the participants but they are responsible for volunteering content. It\u2019s not your job to reach down their throat and pull it out of them. Your meeting not only provides an opportunity for them to speak, their role as professional adults implies, they have an obligation to speak. If they have pertinent information about the topic and do not mention it, shame on them. They are violating integrity and you cannot control their integrity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Warm-up<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Conduct some type of icebreaker, warm-up, or get-to-know-you-better activity even if it is a quick, one-question answer (e.g., favorite vacation place?). Especially with your online communities, strive to permit and encourage more connections and relationship-building than you might in person. To this end, generously conduct breakout sessions, even if they are brief so that everyone gets heard while also becoming more appreciated for who they are and what they can provide.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Exploration<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Explore outliers and seek to understand reasons for going beyond groupthink. We have all learned, perhaps too well, that voting is not a higher-quality method of decision-making. Voting yields bigger numbers, but not necessarily better results. Carefully craft a statement of <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/purpose-tool\/\">purpose<\/a> (WHY) and then separate your <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/why-what-how\/\">OPTIONS<\/a> from your <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/why-what-how\/\">CRITERIA<\/a>. Clarify your options (e.g., <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/consensual-definition\/\"><em>Definitions Technique<\/em><\/a>). Prioritize your criteria (e.g., <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/decision-quality\/\"><em>PowerBalls<\/em><\/a>). Apply your prioritized criteria to your options (e.g., <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/perceptual-map\/\">Perceptual Map<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/decision-matrix\/\">Decision-Matrix<\/a><\/em>, etc.). Test your decision quality by asking \u201cto what extent\u201d the decision harmonizes and supports the purpose you started with.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Alignment<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Have or distribute copies of the strategic stuff. Mission, Values, and Vision can help determine trade-offs during arguments. For example, we serve an industry where safety is paramount and safety provides a common appeal for resolving arguments. For them, the approach that appears riskier or more dangerous will be lost every time. Additionally, you should have the business unit and product objectives readily available. After all, nobody wants more projects, and nobody wants more meetings. We meet and conduct lots of product development and process improvement projects because we want the results.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><strong>Communications<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Conduct a <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/guardian-of-change-communications-plan\/\"><em>Guardian of Change<\/em><\/a> (i.e., communications plan for the meeting results) activity when concluding your sessions. At the end of the meeting get everyone to agree on what they are going to tell their superiors and other stakeholders about what was accomplished (or not) during the session. It\u2019s always a good idea to have participants sound like they were in the same meeting together. Especially with remote teams, where language skills are diverse and English may not be the primary language, determine the precise rhetoric participants should use so that superiors and stakeholders everywhere are receiving the same intended message.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Hope<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Aim for outputs, hope for outcomes. You can only control what goes into the meeting and not what happens as a result of it.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\" https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/virtual-meeting\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11520 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_548132272-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Don't Blame The Failure of Your Virtual Meeting on Technology\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_548132272-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_548132272.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong><em>Good luck. Seriously, a little grace and karma never hurt a servant leader striving to conduct consensus-building group sessions.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>______<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Don\u2019t ruin your career by hosting <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/bad-meetings\/\">bad meetings<\/a>. Sign up for a <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/public-facilitation-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">workshop<\/a> or send this to someone who should. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260106090117\/https:\/\/mgrush.com\/\">MGR<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">USH<\/span><\/a><\/em> workshops focus on meeting design and practice. Each person practices tools, methods, and activities daily during the week. Therefore, while some call this immersion, we call it the road to building high-value facilitation skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Go to the Facilitation <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/shop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Training Store\u00a0<\/a>to access proven, in-house resources, including fully annotated agendas, break timers, and templates. Finally, take a few seconds to buy us a cup of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paypal.com\/webapps\/hermes?token=54P435142P273634K&amp;useraction=commit&amp;rm=2&amp;mfid=1572884404635_f496afd4222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>coffee<\/strong><\/a> and please SHARE with others.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>In conclusion, we<\/em>\u00a0<em>dare you to embrace the will, wisdom, and activities that amplify a facilitative leader. #facilitationtraining #MEETING DESIGN<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>______<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">With Bookmarks no longer a feature in WordPress, we need to append the following for your benefit and reference<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">20 Prioritization Techniques = <a href=\"https:\/\/foldingburritos.com\/product-prioritization-techniques\/\">https:\/\/foldingburritos.com\/product-prioritization-techniques\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Creativity Techniques = <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mycoted.com\/Category:Creativity_Techniques\">https:\/\/www.mycoted.com\/Category:Creativity_Techniques<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Facilitation Training Calendar = <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/public-facilitation-training-calendar\/\">https:\/\/mgrush.com\/public-facilitation-training-calendar\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Liberating Structures = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberatingstructures.com\/ls-menu\">http:\/\/www.liberatingstructures.com\/ls-menu<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Management Methods = <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valuebasedmanagement.net\/\">https:\/\/www.valuebasedmanagement.net<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Newseum = https:\/\/www.freedomforum.org\/todaysfrontpages\/<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">People Search = <a href=\"https:\/\/pudding.cool\/2019\/05\/people-map\/\">https:\/\/pudding.cool\/2019\/05\/people-map\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Project Gutenberg = http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/wiki\/Main_Page<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Scrum Events Agendas = <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/scrum-facilitation\/\">https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/scrum-facilitation\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Speed test = <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedtest.net\/result\/8715401342\">https:\/\/www.speedtest.net\/result\/8715401342<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Teleconference call = <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DYu_bGbZiiQ\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/DYu_bGbZiiQ<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Size of Space = https:\/\/neal.fun\/size-of-space\/<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Thiagi\/ 400 ready-to-use training games = <a href=\"http:\/\/thiagi.net\/archive\/www\/games.html\">http:\/\/thiagi.net\/archive\/www\/games.html<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Visualization methods = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visual-literacy.org\/periodic_table\/periodic_table.html\">http:\/\/www.visual-literacy.org\/periodic_table\/periodic_table.html#<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Walking Gorilla = <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vJG698U2Mvo\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/vJG698U2Mvo<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you use Zoom, Teams, WebEx, GoToMeeting, or another online meeting technology, don\u2019t blame the failure of your online meetings on technology. 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