CTR Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Myriam Hadnes, behavioral economist, podcast host, and facilitator in the Netherlands, about throwing idea parties, listening to what we don’t want to hear, and the hidden reasons that we have for holding meetings.
Please join us for the Control the Room 2021, which will be held Feb. 2-4, 2020. You can find out more and buy tickets here. This…
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Dawan Stanford, president of Fluid Hive, pushing energy into a room, about checking in with people, and his experience with remote learning as the Design Studio Director of Georgetown University’s Learning & Design program.
The necessity for retrospectives and debriefs is obvious when something goes wrong. We usually have an intentional debrief only when a meeting was a terrible one, or when a project failed. This is a mistake; we should be debriefing all the time. Learn our top methods to make meeting debriefs successful.
This is part of the 2020 Control The Room speaker video series. In February we hosted the second annual facilitator summit, Control The Room, at Austin’s…
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Sunni Brown, founder of Deep Self Design & Sunni Brown Ink, about the fallacy of using buzzwords in value statements, Cobra Kai, and the tango of co-facilitation. Listen in to find out what The Karate Kid remake can teach us about the complexity of people.
The global workforce is no stranger to meetings. Based on the odds alone, there’s a good chance you are sitting in a meeting while reading…
Communication is the lifeblood of a meeting. Learn how to better communicate as a facilitator and as a participant to have productive meetings.
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.
