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.
Meetings
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.
How do you set your team up for successful virtual meetings? Voltage control shares 5 strategies for high-engagement and productivity.
Douglas Ferguson speaks with Johannes Petereit, Ph.D. Student at the German Research Center for Geosciences, about the Train Together Forever meeting he and other natural science professionals come together at virtually each week to "change the way science is done."
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Elise Keith, founder of Lucid Meetings, about the impact of creating custom meeting systems through Lucid Meetings, the significance of effective decision-making, and the need for organizations to have intentional conversations about meetings.
How you make decisions in the workplace determines or prohibits outcomes, productivity, team dynamics, meeting culture, innovation, and transformation.
When you advocate for your idea instead of asking opposing viewpoints questions, you get nowhere. Lead with inquiry to arrive at creative solutions, together.