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
Meeting 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.
At this point, we’ve all had many months to become accustomed to meeting virtually. Some love it and some hate it, but either way it…
Attention Facilitators! I've super excited to share with you a few features that I've been waiting for since April! When the pandemic canceled every in-person…
Words are powerful. They hold weight and meaning, sometimes beyond what we immediately recognize when we use them. Take the word “meeting.” What do you…
1. Make Sure You Actually Need a Meeting How many times have you been sitting in a meeting thinking ‘this could have been an email?’…
Meetings are nothing without the participation of its attendees. No matter how incredible a facilitator may be, a meeting will not be successful without the…
We don't always need a meeting; unnecessary meetings waste time and money. Use the Should We Even Have a Meeting Test to decide if you should have a meeting.
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.