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1. Make Sure You Actually Need a Meeting How many times have you been sitting in a meeting thinking ‘this could have been an email?’…
This is an outtake from the book The Non-Obvious Guide to Magical meetings (No Matter Who is in the Room), written by Douglas Ferguson &…
Innovation Series: Douglas Ferguson talks to multidisciplinary designer Lisa Baird about her career journey, falling in love with the problem, the helpfulness of curmudgeonly people, and the deeper systems underneath user experiences.
CTR Podcast: Host Douglas Ferguson speaks with Lynda Baker, founder and president of Meeting Solutions Online, about her relationship with IAF and they take a deep dive into the concepts of facilitation and why you don't need to manage or control every part of a conversation.
Treat meeting prep like a surgeon preps for surgery–strategically, meticulously, and with eyes wide open.
Kris Pennella, Director of Red Hat’s Open Innovation Labs, is on a mission to assist companies in getting products to market faster by transforming their…
If there’s a secret sauce to successful product development, it’s human-centered design. To truly create anything with purpose, you must create with the end-user in mind. …
Control the Room Podcast: host Douglas Ferguson talks with Harold Hardaway, co-founder & CEO of Cardigan. They discuss how to utilize quiet during facilitation, how to use ingratiation and equifinality in facilitation, why acknowledgment is so powerful and more.
When you view your business through the eyes of a customer, what do you see? That is what a design thinking approach to business is…
Virtual teams are the new normal. But that doesn’t mean they’re all successful. Many virtual teams face problematic challenges. While remote work was not uncommon…
