AMRC Use Lockdown For Strategic RethinkI was speaking to a friend of mine at the weekend about how he has been using the COVID-19 hiatus to rethink his organisation’s strategy. … Read more |
– 3c. Designing your meeting
High Level and Adaptive Meeting StructuresSometimes, you are not really sure what success looks like in detail but you are confident that you will recognise it when you see it. … Read more |
Effective QuestionsI had six honest serving men, they taught me all I knew. Their names were Where and What and When, and Why and How and … Read more |
Liberating StructuresLiberating Structures is a website which shares Meeting ToolChest’s heart for empowering people to reach their potential through better interaction with themselves, their colleagues and … Read more |
Meeting Effectiveness Maturity ModelMaturity Models are simply tables that describe the journey between poor practice and best practice across a number of different aspects and levels. – – … Read more |
SessionLab meeting/workshop planning toolSession plans are key to ensuring a efficient meeting, particularly when the meeting is large, long, complex and covering new ground. I use session plans as an … Read more |
Defining meeting objectives and agendaClarity of objectives and process (agenda) is key to efficient meetings – both in terms of planning the meeting, and in terms of aligning people … Read more |
QFD for meetingsMeetings are essentially a series of activities put together to achieve a number of objectives. In many cases these are not a simple 1:1 relationship. … Read more |
Thinking processes and templatesDecision making, whether individual or collective, appears to be something that we don’t ‘think about’ very often, and yet there is a pattern to it … Read more |
Kolb’s Learning CycleIt used to be thought that learning was something people did when they were at school or on a training course of some type. This … Read more |
Session PlansReally effective and efficient meetings are rarely achieved by accident. The following diagram shows a small section of an off-site workshop plan which reflects the … Read more |