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.
Better Meetings
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.
Control the Room Summit: J. Schuh, Design Strategist at Sabre and Design Thinking facilitator, spoke about the importance of sharing stories through “story stacks”—a collection of stories that facilitators can call upon to tell at a moment’s notice to communicate a lesson learned or an idea they are presenting.
Control the Room Summit 2020: Lee Duncan, Enterprise Design Sprint Leader at IBM, and Dan Benedict, Digital Product Designer at IBM present "Cyber-Physical Design Sprints within the Enterprise." They detailed the six steps of the cyber-physical system (anything that can sense, infer, and act, such as self-driving cars and changing thermostats) and how to navigate the innovation process.
At Voltage Control, we think of professional facilitation as a team’s personal Invisible Hand and Silver Tongue.
Control the Room Summit: Taylor Cone, Founder & CEO at Lightshed, speaks about how to maximize the creative output of teams in his presentation “Designing Inclusive Collaborations to Leverage Team Diversity.”