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.
Too many meetings are spent talking about what needs to be done instead of actually doing it. Do the work in the meeting with these 5 tips.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Kierra Johnson, Community Manager at Voltage Control, about the power of positivity, the Facilitation Lab’s impact, and how facilitators are connecting beyond the Lab.
Six Ways to Create More Effective Agendas: Set Clear Objectives, Focus on Essential Topics, Set a Realistic Schedule, Work Collaboratively, Reflection Time, Write it down
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.
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.
Voltage Control's recipe for better meeting culture: 1) Psychological safety 2) Clearly outlined procedures and expectations 3) Meetings are opportunities, not obligations
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.