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Better Meetings

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Facilitation | October 26, 2020

Facilitation is the Future

Change is inevitable. But we have the power to prepare for it. Facilitation is the key ingredient to success in the future of work.

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Meeting Culture | October 23, 2020

Empathy, Ethics, & Value Systems in Innovation

Christina Wodtke, author of best-selling book Radical Focus and a lecturer at Stanford University, has helped grow companies such as LinkedIn, Zynga, Yahoo, and The…

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Meeting Culture | October 22, 2020

Sharing The Meeting Story

You facilitated an amazing meeting. The job is done, right? Not so fast... The idiom “if a tree falls in a forest and no one…

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Podcast | October 20, 2020

Episode 14: Taking down your inner firewall

Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Sam McAfee, Founder of Startup Patterns, about Breaking the divide between your personal values and professional persona.

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Podcast | October 13, 2020

Episode 13: Designing a Remote Employee Experience that Will Go the Distance

Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Kaleem Clarkson, COO & Co-founder of Blend Me, Inc., about different types of remote work, why some companies are struggling to transition to remote work, and why it’s so important for a job posting to accurately represent your organization’s culture.

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Meeting Culture | October 12, 2020

Always Be Capturing: Keeping participants in the moment

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…

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Podcast | October 6, 2020

Episode 12: The Delicate Balance Between Data & Design

Douglas Ferguson speaks with Kai Haley, Head of UX Methods and Processes & Founder of Sprint Master Academy at Google, about Google Sprint Masters, the delicate balance between data and design, and how knowledge sharing creates resilient product teams.

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Meeting Culture | October 5, 2020

Rename Your Meetings

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…

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Meeting Culture | October 1, 2020

10 Tips for Effective Meetings

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?’…

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Podcast | September 29, 2020

Episode 11: Insist on Celebration During Challenging Times

Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speak with Mariano Suarez-Battan, CEO & Co-Founder of MURAL about the power of purposeful silence, how to power up your team’s imagination at work, and why you should be blocking out time for kids and coffee.

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