Douglas Ferguson speaks with Teresa Torres, Product Discovery Coach & Internationally Acclaimed Author, about what organizations have to gain when they embrace the “messiness” of collaborating in complex systems, her approach to the “decision-making trio”, leading with empathy, and more.
Facilitation Skills
Don't wait to be in person to run a Design Sprint. Here are 5 tips to adapt the workshop to the virtual landscape & solve big challenges.
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.
We've curated 10 of the most effective virtual workshop tools to help you successfully facilitate a distributed team.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Sarah L. Collie, Associate Vice President for Organizational Excellence at the University of Virginia, about the influence facilitation has played throughout her professional career, how meeting disruption can happen no matter how prepared the facilitator, and more.
Prioritize connection and choose the right tech and hardware to run effective hybrid events.
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.
Explore the possibilities and benefits of hybrid events and how to run them.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Kwame Christian about breaking down biases in negotiation, the unique approach in negotiation scenarios, strategizing conversations and key recommendations within conflict, and the superpower of negotiation in all aspects of life.