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Meeting Culture | October 15, 2020

3 Ways to Get Your Meeting Back on Track

Meetings can get off track, here are three ways to bring them back for optimum meeting outcomes: 1) Reference visible resources & allow for self-correction 2) Directly Address Team Members 3) Ask the group

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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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Meeting Culture | September 17, 2020

Wait, We Actually Don’t Need a Meeting

We don't always need a meeting; unnecessary meetings waste time and money. Use the Should We Even Have a Meeting Test to decide if you should have a meeting.

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Facilitation | September 16, 2020

Facilitation Methods & Modalities

This is an outtake from the book The Non-Obvious Guide to Magical meetings (No Matter Who is in the Room), written by Douglas Ferguson &…

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Podcast | September 15, 2020

Episode 9: What Distinguishes A Great Facilitator

Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Michael Wilkinson, CEO and Managing Director of Leadership Strategies, about his path to the International Association of Facilitators Hall of Fame, what makes a great facilitator, and the six P's of preparing a meeting.

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Innovation Series | September 14, 2020

Falling in Love with the Problem

Innovation Series: Douglas Ferguson talks to multidisciplinary designer Lisa Baird about her career journey, falling in love with the problem, the helpfulness of curmudgeonly people, and the deeper systems underneath user experiences.

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Meeting Culture | July 30, 2020

Prepare an Effective Meeting Agenda, Every Time

Meetings make the world go ‘round, but ineffective ones stunt and hinder us from achieving greatness. Last week on the blog we talked about how…

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Meeting Culture | July 23, 2020

How to Run Effective Meetings

Meetings are important. They are the yellow brick road to achievement; vital to company success. We need them. Yet, so many of us dread them.…

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Conflict Resolution | June 26, 2020

Change Management Strategies–Before & During Transitions

Our world has changed more rapidly and unexpectedly than ever before these past several months. Nothing has been safe. Businesses have and continue to struggle…

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