Control the Room 2021: a recap of our 3-day virtual facilitator summit.
Better Meetings
Control the Room Summit 2021: Mohamed Ali, Service Designer and Facilitator at Independant, discusses how self-interest can create engagement and participation for your audience.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Ed Morrison, Director of the Agile Strategy Lab in North Alabama University, about team-based communication models, Strategic Doing, and transformative thinking for hopeless, uncertain futures. Listen in to hear Ed guide us through the questions, processes, and frameworks that will help in making the most of complex environments.
Follow these 7 effective meeting guidelines to kick Zoom fatigue and optimize your remote meeting culture: 1. Determine the need for the meeting. 2. Prepare in advance. 3. Share expectations and goals. 4. Create a safe space. 5. Stay on track and redirect. 6. Recap and gather feedback. 7. Follow-up.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Nancy Giordano about updating strategic efforts, machine learning, and the tools meeting planners have at their disposal in bettering their teams’ success. Listen in to hear Nancy break down the importance of bringing a relevant strategy to multi-faceted, complex teams.
Leaders and facilitators must develop a substitution for the daily in-person interactions that build rapport and support a team’s feedback loop. Implement these remote team huddle strategies for remote work success.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Nicole Baer, Global Head of Marketing for Logitech’s Video Collaboration Business, about AI personal assistants, fighting the daily burden of cognitive load, and interjecting levity into the mundane, and more.
Control the Room 2020: Justin Foster, Co-Founder of Root + River, presents "Leadership Presence: Where Inner Work Meets Our Story".
Your meeting system is in need of repair if it includes any of the following 6 warning signs: 1. Meetings are scheduled just because. 2. Recurring Monday meetings are on the calendar. 3. You get an invite. You get an invite. Everyone gets an invite. 4. Most meetings are all talk, no action. 5. You communicate in one style. 6. There’s no collection of feedback.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Ben Aston, Founder of Black & White Zebra, improving meetings through connection, bringing back lost momentum, unlocking opportunities we may not yet see ourselves, and more.
