Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speak with Van Lai-DuMone, Founder of WorksmART, about creative disconnect in the corporate workforce, Van's go-to creativity strategies to improve team work, and the importance to prioritize connection when shifting to a hybrid workplace.
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We've curated 10 of the most effective virtual workshop tools to help you successfully facilitate a distributed team.
Incorporate Liberating Structures in your next retrospective to optimize individual team member performance and group collaboration.
Douglas Ferguson speaks with Natalie Nixon, author and Figure 8 Thinking President, about her Design and Dine meeting created to support an executive MBA program at Thomas Jefferson University.
Adapt Liberating Structures to the virtual landscape to unleash engagement, provide space for good ideas, and address challenges your remote team or organization may be facing.
Douglas Ferguson speaks with Jordan Hirsch, Director of Strategy at Phase2, about his "Facilitating Everywhere Working Group" meeting and expanding Phase2's virtual offerings.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Diana Joseph, Innovator at the Corporate Accelerator Forum & Co-Host of The Ecosystem Show on Clubhouse, about the need for open dialogue between startup & corporate organizations and the unique space Diana curates to collectively bring them together through specified expertise, and more.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Spawrks, Co-Host of Space Pencils & Software Engineer Leader, about the benefits of learning from an unorthodox perspective, the moments of stepping outside of the traditional learning loop, the crucial “linking” aspect in facilitation, and more.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Elise Keith, founder of Lucid Meetings, about the impact of creating custom meeting systems through Lucid Meetings, the significance of effective decision-making, and the need for organizations to have intentional conversations about meetings.
Individuals have different working styles and needs. Differentiation in the workplace requires you to first understand the individual needs and learning styles of your team members then provide them with what they need to thrive.