Please join us for the Control the Room 2021, which will be held Feb. 2-4, 2020. You can find out more and buy tickets here. This…
Facilitation Skills
The necessity for retrospectives and debriefs is obvious when something goes wrong. We usually have an intentional debrief only when a meeting was a terrible one, or when a project failed. This is a mistake; we should be debriefing all the time. Learn our top methods to make meeting debriefs successful.
Change is inevitable. But we have the power to prepare for it. Facilitation is the key ingredient to success in the future of work.
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
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…
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?’…
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.
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 &…
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.
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.