Follow these 7 effective meeting guidelines to kick Zoom fatigue and optimize your remote meeting culture: 1. Determine the need for the meeting. 2. Prepare in advance. 3. Share expectations and goals. 4. Create a safe space. 5. Stay on track and redirect. 6. Recap and gather feedback. 7. Follow-up.
Facilitation
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Nancy Giordano about updating strategic efforts, machine learning, and the tools meeting planners have at their disposal in bettering their teams’ success. Listen in to hear Nancy break down the importance of bringing a relevant strategy to multi-faceted, complex teams.
As we adapt to the changing business landscape, how we lead our teams must also change.
Leaders and facilitators must develop a substitution for the daily in-person interactions that build rapport and support a team’s feedback loop. Implement these remote team huddle strategies for remote work success.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Nicole Baer, Global Head of Marketing for Logitech’s Video Collaboration Business, about AI personal assistants, fighting the daily burden of cognitive load, and interjecting levity into the mundane, and more.
Control the Room 2020: Justin Foster, Co-Founder of Root + River, presents "Leadership Presence: Where Inner Work Meets Our Story".
End Zoom gloom with an engaging virtual event experience. Use these 9 tips to run a successful virtual event in the current virtual landscape.
Your meeting system is in need of repair if it includes any of the following 6 warning signs: 1. Meetings are scheduled just because. 2. Recurring Monday meetings are on the calendar. 3. You get an invite. You get an invite. Everyone gets an invite. 4. Most meetings are all talk, no action. 5. You communicate in one style. 6. There’s no collection of feedback.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Ben Aston, Founder of Black & White Zebra, improving meetings through connection, bringing back lost momentum, unlocking opportunities we may not yet see ourselves, and more.
Control the Room Summit: J. Schuh, Design Strategist at Sabre and Design Thinking facilitator, spoke about the importance of sharing stories through “story stacks”—a collection of stories that facilitators can call upon to tell at a moment’s notice to communicate a lesson learned or an idea they are presenting.