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I often talk about the importance of achieving consensus. But make no mistake, I don’t mean that everyone should acquiesce to leadership, or the loudest person in the room. Conflict is an important part of collaboration, and tension is a vital part of the decision-making process.
In this episode of Control the Room, I had the pleasure of speaking with Carlye Lauff about her experience working at LUMA, prototyping, and teaching at the University of Minnesota. We talk about her new book called Design Innovation Methodology Handbook - Embedding Design in Organizations. We then discuss the difficulty of building Prototyping capacities within organizations. Listen in to learn how to use prototyping to build empathy with users, the curse of knowledge, and failing better.
Build meaningful connection amongst your remote team members so they can work more effectively together using the Yarn Weave activity.
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 Jordan Hirsch, Director of Strategy at Phase2, about his "Facilitating Everywhere Working Group" meeting and expanding Phase2's virtual offerings.
Explore the neurology of meetings to understand how to get the most out of participants.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Ed Morrison, Director of the Agile Strategy Lab in North Alabama University, about team-based communication models, Strategic Doing, and transformative thinking for hopeless, uncertain futures. Listen in to hear Ed guide us through the questions, processes, and frameworks that will help in making the most of complex environments.
Control the Room Summit 2021: Madelon Guinazzo, Co-Founder of Cuddlist, addresses that all facilitators have fears, and participants all come with their own fears as well. Her experiential-based workshop explores some common facilitator fears in a safe way.
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.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with David Gurteen, Director of Gurteen Knowledge, about street epistemology, virtual knowledge cafes, and David’s interest in astrophysics, and how conversation can help us make better sense of the world.
