Communication is the lifeblood of a meeting. When that lifeblood is flowing well, your meeting will be smooth, effective, and pleasant to be a part…
October 2020
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Tyrome Smith, Principal Consultant at Go-In, LLC, about the BLM movement in relation to his background as a former police officer, the fear of irrelevance in the age of COVID, and how family dynamics leak into institutional structures.
Change is inevitable. But we have the power to prepare for it. Facilitation is the key ingredient to success in the future of work.
Christina Wodtke, author of best-selling book Radical Focus and a lecturer at Stanford University, has helped grow companies such as LinkedIn, Zynga, Yahoo, and The…
You facilitated an amazing meeting. The job is done, right? Not so fast... The idiom “if a tree falls in a forest and no one…
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Sam McAfee, Founder of Startup Patterns, about Breaking the divide between your personal values and professional persona.
Meetings can get off track, here are three ways to bring them back for optimum meeting outcomes: 1) Reference visible resources & allow for self-correction 2) Directly Address Team Members 3) Ask the group
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Kaleem Clarkson, COO & Co-founder of Blend Me, Inc., about different types of remote work, why some companies are struggling to transition to remote work, and why it’s so important for a job posting to accurately represent your organization’s culture.
We are passionate about helping people everywhere have better meetings. So we're sharing one of our pro-level tips to do so: do the work in…
Solomon Masala, the founder of the Source Consulting Group, spoke at the 2020 Control the Room facilitator summit about the seven elements of operating experimentally.