Your meeting culture shapes your company culture: understanding organizational icebergs can help you transform both.
    
    
    Your meeting culture shapes your company culture: understanding organizational icebergs can help you transform both.
    
    
    Build consensus and run better meetings: sign up for facilitation training certification to learn the best tools to facilitate like a pro.
    
    
    Better design sprints begin with better facilitation. Sign up for design sprint classes and with Voltage Control’s Facilitator Certification course.
    
    
    What is design thinking? Adopting design methodology puts people first and prioritizes the needs of your clients and customers.
    
    
    A Magical Meeting Story from Eric Keck, an expert on leadership development, operational management, strategic planning, and municipal government management from Post Falls, Idaho.
    
    
    I often talk about the importance of achieving consensus. But make no mistake, I don’t mean that everyone should acquiesce to leadership, or the loudest person in the room. Conflict is an important part of collaboration, and tension is a vital part of the decision-making process.
    
    
    As the world changes, so does the workplace. After all, we were forced to shift from in-person to completely virtual communication and collaboration seemingly overnight. This means leaders have had to continue having those important meetings, collaborating with team members, capitalizing on innovative ideas, and transforming their businesses—albeit virtually.
    
    
    Today’s story is with Erica Wood, a leadership and performance consultant from New York, New York. I spoke with Erica about the Recalibration Session, the reason behind it, and what risks she encountered.
    
    
    Conducting remote design thinking sessions can be a challenge. This guide will help increase engagement and collaboration in your next remote session.
    
    
    How to drive a culture of innovation at your organization in today’s unique environment: 1. Allow flexible work options whenever possible 2. Prioritize DEI initiatives 3. Utilize Innovation Training 4. Promote autonomy within your team as much as possible 5. Have an appetite for risk