Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson talks to Alison Coward, founder of Bracket, about how to make space for conflict, why there is power in the introduction, and how your team can define who they are as an objective. Listen in to find out how to understand the context of what you're working in, how you can create the environment to do your best work as a team, and why shared empathy across a team is so important.
Arguably one of the most famous Albert Einstein quotes is: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting…
Treat meeting prep like a surgeon preps for surgery–strategically, meticulously, and with eyes wide open.
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Our world has changed more rapidly and unexpectedly than ever before these past several months. Nothing has been safe. Businesses have and continue to struggle…
What does it mean to ‘Control the Room’? This question frequently surfaces related to our free weekly Control the Room Meetup that we host in…
Take a moment to consider your company's meeting culture. Would your team consider your meetings productive? Enjoyable? Engaging? Effective? Do you get work done in…
Remote team communication needs to be steered by strong structures and methods that capture room intelligence–the idea that many minds are far greater than one–to…