Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Dana Publicover, Managing Director of Publicover & Co., about her extensive experience solving challenges for customers across a variety of creative industries, how her experience facilitating Design Sprints influenced her current business services, and getting past biases on discovery calls.
Meetings
Effective facilitation skills to help identify and heal bad meeting symptoms to run healthy meetings.
Incorporate facilitation skills and best meeting practices to make every meeting more productive and effective.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Evo Heyning, CEO of Playable Agency and Executive Producer for Metaverse Media Series, about her extensive experience working with the metaverse, creating immersive experiences, and developing the spatial web.
Douglas Ferguson speaks with Jeff Gothelf, Coach, Speaker, Author and Consultant, about a meeting he designed called “Demo Days,” the purpose of the meeting, what it helped accomplish, and why it was so powerful.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with A conversation with Madelon Guinazzo, Co-Founder and Consent Facilitator of Cuddlist, about the importance of social agreements, being more intentional about how we meet, the consent of self-care and trying to do the right thing for you and your clients.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Todd Allmond, Director of Customer Experience Center of Excellence at Microsoft, about his years of enterprise experience, how a field trip changed his career trajectory, and why digital customer experiences should be treated as products.
Ensure that all of your meetings are magical by properly preparing for them: clarify the purpose of the meeting, only invite who is necessary, consider the possible outcomes of your meeting to gauge success, and let attendees know what to expect.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Tim Beattie, Global Head of Product of Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, about the value of incorporating open innovation groups in your organization to gather customer feedback, the benefits of having direct access to customer feedback when these spaces are created, the importance of having consistent showcase events and more.
Douglas Ferguson speaks with Adrian Howard, consultant, coach, and trainer at Quietstars, about his Scale of Truthiness meeting, what makes it magical, and what it helped accomplish.