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October 2020

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Meeting Culture | October 30, 2020

How To Communicate More Effectively in Meetings

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…

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Podcast | October 28, 2020

Episode 15: Human Architecture – Creating citizens vs Building Institutions

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.

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Facilitation | October 26, 2020

Facilitation is the Future

Change is inevitable. But we have the power to prepare for it. Facilitation is the key ingredient to success in the future of work.

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Meeting Culture | October 23, 2020

Empathy, Ethics, & Value Systems in Innovation

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…

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Meeting Culture | October 22, 2020

Sharing The Meeting Story

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…

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Podcast | October 20, 2020

Episode 14: Taking down your inner firewall

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.

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Meeting Culture | October 15, 2020

3 Ways to Get Your Meeting Back on Track

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

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Podcast | October 13, 2020

Episode 13: Designing a Remote Employee Experience that Will Go the Distance

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.

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Meeting Culture | October 12, 2020

Always Be Capturing: Keeping participants in the moment

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…

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Meeting Culture | October 9, 2020

The Seven Elements of Operating Experientially

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.

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