Magical Meetings
Redesign meetings so people actually want to attend.
In this workshop, we will introduce the skills you need to create a magical experience at every meeting. We will review meeting mantras that you can apply to your meeting culture, and we’ll go way beyond the agenda to show you frameworks to use before, during, and after your meetings. Join us to gain the tools and expertise you need to be a meeting magician.
Date
January 31, 2022
Time
9am - 5pm CST
Location
Austin, TX
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What to expect
What to Expect
You will come out of this workshop with a renewed perspective on meetings. You will learn a systematic method to better approach the before, during, and after of meetings to ensure they are magical. This workshop is full of best practices and practical tools. You’ll walk away with the confidence to make any meeting magical.
There will be minimal lecture, so if you are expecting to turn on and multi-task, this workshop is not for you. Instead, we’ll be diving in and practicing virtual facilitation to build muscle memory and confidence. You’ll also have plenty of opportunities to connect and work with your peers, as we believe this is the best way to learn.
What You'll Learn
Prevent terrible meetings from happening. Revolutionize agendas with the use of narratives. Handpick effective exercises and insert them into your meeting narrative to better engage participants. Maintain momentum outside of your meetings. Distinguish between work that should be done in a meeting and work that should happen asynchronously. Make meetings more playful, productive, and magical. Unleash the potential in everyone so you can all do your best work together and alone.
How You'll Learn
This workshop will be extremely interactive and hands-on. We will introduce templates, checklists, and framework you can start using immediately after the training. You will tinker with these assets to become familiar with them. You will also create meeting mantras together with other leaders, and we will do peer-to-peer coaching to cross pollinate best practices.
Agenda
Open
Review meeting mantras that create magical meetings.
Explore
Frameworks, templates, and checklists to use before, during, and after meetings.
Close
Create your own meeting mantra to apply to your team right after the course.
Reflect
What magical methods work for you, and how can we all get better together?
Who Should Attend
Managers
who want to enable their teammates without getting in their way.
Entrepreneurs
who want to make the most out of the collective intelligence within their company.
Executives
who seek more alignment, trust, and productivity.
Anybody
Looking to create meetings people want to attend
Key Takeaways
How to facilitate meetings that don’t suck.
Know when to have a meeting and when not to.
Create momentum before a meeting and keep it going after.
Mantras, frameworks, templates, and checklists to use in your next meeting.
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Douglas Ferguson
Douglas is a thought leader and master facilitator of Design Sprints, Innovation Workshops, Team Alignment Workshops, Transformations, Meeting Systems, and Culture Workshops. He is also the author of three books: Beyond the Prototype, How to Remix Anything (co-authored), and Start Within (co-authored).
Motivated by a mission to rid the world of horrible meetings and offer meaningful meetings in their place, Voltage Control is calling upon fellow facilitators to transform meeting and innovation culture. From free weekly community meetups to Control the Room–the annual facilitator summit, Voltage Control is building a community of facilitators to change the world.
Venue
Capital Factory
Austin, TX 78701
What People Are Saying
"I realized my entire role is facilitation. I have to do a lot of lateral influencing. So I use these skills even if it is not a super-structured workshop. Our product team has micro meetings all the time, and these methods help us get the most of those moments. My team can lean on me to facilitate. You will redesign the way you have conversations. I can’t believe every college student doesn’t have to take a class like this. This is how you collaborate. It is the underpinning of the future of work."
Savannah C.
PRODUCT DESIGNER @ TAILWIND
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A key part of our mission is to support diverse facilitators from different methodologies, backgrounds, races, genders, sexual orientations, cultures, and ages. If you are a part of, or serve, a traditionally underrepresented group and feel that this scholarship would allow you to amplify this mission, please apply now.
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