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Meeting room set-ups

There are many ways to set up both physical and online meeting rooms, and your choice can have a big influence on engagement and commitment. … Read more

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Power positioning

Where your people sit around a meeting table has an impact on the ease with which they can influence proceedings. This information can be useful … Read more

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Mixed meetings and mediums

‘Meeting’ is a verb. Thinking of it as a noun risks paradigms that restricts our full appreciation of the vast range of options now available … Read more

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Persistent Project Walls

Better than photos. Easier than minutes. More efficient than physical meetings. Accelerate your team’s progress through mapping their thinking with persistent project walls.  – – … Read more

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Meeting Tool Selection

There is a wide range of meeting tools available, which support the achievement of a host of different purposes within a meeting. So much so, … Read more

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Opening Questions

The following helpful article on opening questions was created by J.Elise Keith of Lucid Meetings, who provide software, training and resources for meetings. She writes … Read more

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Managing Assembly

Assembly is all about getting the right people at the right time with the right attitudes and expectations. So how do you do this? – … Read more

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Building Alignment

Clarity over what the meeting is to achieve, both in its design and in the minds of its attendees, makes all the difference. So how … Read more

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Inspiring Activity

Engagement of people in a meeting makes a big difference to the quality and ownership of the result. Speaking and listening can prove poor mechanisms … Read more

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Engaging Attention

The level of attention people give each other in a meeting is a big factor in both efficiency and buy-in. So how can we increase … Read more

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Committing to Action

The biggest cause of ineffectiveness in meetings is poor progress on actions between meetings, often due to lack of clarity and realism. So how do … Read more

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Learning from Assessment

Meetings are consistently poorer than we expect because we lack the data to improve them. Getting that data has never been easier, or indeed, more … Read more

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Ownership Culture

Management want it … Management just want it to happen … Management want us to do it – phrases we should never, ever, hear! And yet, … Read more

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Co-Active Leadership

I am grateful to Andy Denne of Teaching Team Leadership for the following brief introduction to Co-Active Leadership. As we all learn to operate and … Read more

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Conceptboard Familiarisation

For general guidance on Whiteboards, please see our post: Using Participative Collaboration Techniques in Virtual Whiteboards There are loads of virtual whiteboards out there, all with … Read more

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PMI

PMI stands for Plus Minus and Interesting. It is a simple technique which Edward de Bono developed to help people quickly explore a situation or … Read more

Action Planning Sheet

The Action Planning sheet is a tool for thinking through actions in respect of ensuring they will be effectively implemented. It is particularly useful where … Read more

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Honeycomb Diagram

The honeycomb diagram is essentially a tree diagram laid out in a more graphically attractive manner. This can be helpful in gaining a better psychological … Read more

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Solution Effect Diagram

The Solution Effect Diagram is a very useful variation of the Ishikawa diagram. It is used for exploring the potential implications to an intended change (sometimes … Read more