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‘Arriving’ at your Online Meeting

Bringing the best version of yourself to the party – – ...
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Action Minutes

A quick and simple way to document responsibilities – – – ...
Action Planning Sheet

Action Planning Sheet

Building clarity over what needs to happen to progress – – ...
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Affinity – The most useful tool of all

Affinity: the simplest & most powerful means of participation – – ...
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Alternatives to ‘meeting’

Virtual tools to do some, or all, of your meeting offline ...
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Avoiding action fugginess – Kipling Lists

Ensuring the who, what, when, where, how, and why – – ...
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Better brainstorming | Template

Brainstorming works better if the rules are followed – – – ...
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Breakout Groups within meeting sessions

How to use breakouts to increase participation and ownership – – ...
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Building consensus remotely

How to gain ownership and agreement out of conflict – – ...
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Challenging commitment

There are many levels to commitment, which are we at? – ...
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Checking back on the objectives

Learning from how well the objectives have been met – – ...
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Conducting a Pre-Mortem

A clever way to learn from failure BEFORE it happens – ...
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Conducting difficult conversations

Addressing issues in delivery and commitment – – – – – ...
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Contracting meeting behaviour

Using shared development of ground rules to build teamwork – – ...
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Contracting participation

Get the people you want by preparing them beforehand – – ...
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Diversity and non-inclusive language

Ways to encourage people to bring their whole selves – – ...
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Driving activity between meetings

Using ‘always-on’ whiteboards to keep the thinking active – – – ...
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Early Participation

Quick and simple techniques for remote participation – – – – ...
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Effective Flipcharting

10 tips for using flipcharts facilitatively There is a lot of ...
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Environment and Ambience

Using visuals and audio to influence attitudes – – – – ...
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Establishing a meeting culture for effectiveness

Do we tolerate poor meeting behaviour because it is so prevalent ...
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Facilitation Supercards

Facilitation Supercards are the brainchild of Lisette Sutherland who curates the ...
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Facilitation Tools and Techniques

Facilitation tools, resources and guidance to enable working environments where people ...
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Facilitator Cards – an easy way to start facilitation

Facilitation cards are simple, fun way to step into facilitation and ...
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Google Jamboard

Getting started on Virtual Whiteboards Google Jamboard is probably the simplest ...
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Growing people by meetings

Meetings are a huge opportunity to develop people – – – ...
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Have I heard you correctly?

Techniques to advance listening and shared understanding – – – – ...
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Hopes and Concerns

A simple way to draw out and manage hidden agendas – ...
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How do I facilitate the template?

Before you start reading this, please know that there is a ...
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Identifying low-hanging fruit

Using an impact-ease grid to maximise leverage on results – – ...
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Improving virtual meeting memory – 15 things that can improve our recall

The increase in virtual meetings, and the similarity of our surroundings ...
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Instant Participation Templates

Select a tool (for help, click here), Click to open, share ...
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Laying out your process

Making the journey and progress of the meeting visible – – ...
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Looking at the implications

Mapping the downsides to turn them into upsides – – – ...
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Making the room your own – confidence

Simple things like repositioning the flipchart can do a lot to ...
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Meeting Effectiveness Maturity Model

Maturity Models are simply tables that describe the journey between poor ...
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Meeting Review using WWW/AFI

About meeting reviews Meeting Reviews are a simple and grossly under-utilised ...
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Meeting tools and sticky notes are not an alternative to dialogue

Contrary to what some may believe, meeting tools and sticky notes ...
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Micro-Polling

Six quick and simple tools to maintain engagement – – – ...
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Objectives and Agenda

Steps to defining a powerful purpose and process – – – ...
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Online Meeting Rooms

Setting up online meeting rooms for better participation – – – ...
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Opening Questions

Using questions to engage early participation from people. – – – ...
Participative Problem Solving

Participative Problem Solving

How do you get a group of people to list and ...
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Photocapture of meeting outputs

Mobile tools that make it easy to record outcomes – – ...
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Pictorial Visioning

Using visual images to work with our hopes for the future ...
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Planning matrix for meetings

Maximise your meeting efficiency with this design tool – – – ...
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PMI

PMI stands for Plus Minus and Interesting. It is a simple ...
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Presentation Timers

Simple tools to help keep your meeting to time – – ...
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Questions to build Alignment

Using questions to build agreement to a shared purpose – – ...
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Questions to encourage Action

Using questions to bring clarity to what will happen when – ...
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Questions to engage Activity

Using questions to drive exploration, dialogue and insight – – – ...
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Questions to influence the flow

Clever use of questions to guide flow and direction – – ...
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Questions to shift Attention

Maintaining mindfulness over how we are being inclusive – – – ...
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Questions to support Assessment

Good questions are the most powerful tools available to us The ...
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Re-balancing motivation

Using a force-field diagram to improve adopter engagement – – – ...
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Readiness Check-in

Building responsibility for bringing our best to meetings. – – – ...
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Rules for Effective Teamwork

Work with your team to develop the basis for more effective ...
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Session Plans

Building clarity over your intent, methods and timings – – – ...
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Simple Kanban

At its core, Kanban is a visual management method that aims ...
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Structuring Effective Meetings

If you are an organisation or individual seeking to create an ...
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Task Skills and Maintenance Skills

Kurt Lewins’ model provides a really helpful insight into keeping your ...
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The $500 bet

The question that causes people to take another look – – ...
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The importance of variety

Catering for difference and diversity in people and styles – – ...
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The one strategy most likely to succeed

When it comes down to it, all change is personal. It ...
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The peril of shortcuts in fuzzy language

Certain words and turns of phrase are deceptively ambiguous. We think ...
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The power of the post-it

Use sticky notes to aid participation, fairness & ownership – – ...
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Threshold of Pride

Setting practical worthwhile goals by accessing our feelings about them – ...
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Tools to support creativity

Tools which help the mind to adopt new perspectives – – ...
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Tracking Action Completion

Applying ‘what gets measured gets done’ to actions – – – ...
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Tracking Audience Mood and Responses

There is a skill in presenting at the right pace and ...
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Tracking your progress in ensuring productive meetings

Why do so many inefficient meetings exist? Meetings are a crucial ...
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Understand differences

Using psychometrics to build shared appreciation of others – – – ...
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Using a ‘Parking Lot’

Keeping on track by effectively managing distractions – – – – ...
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Using a planning chart

Laying it all out in detail to ensure it fits in ...
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Using Meeting Timers for Efficient, High Energy and Creative Meetings

We spend  more of our working time in meetings than virtually ...
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Using SWOT Analysis

Using SWOT as a simple means to shared understanding – – ...
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Virtual Flip Charts

Virtual Flip Charts are a free, simple and easy way of ...
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Virtual Meeting Timers

Probably the most useful tools to help people keep their meetings ...
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Walk Round Process – Breakout Feedback

An alternative to breakout feedback that is quicker, more engaging, and ...
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WFH Exercises

Simply click the wheel, then click on the exercise identified, and ...
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What does it mean if I receive feedback that is less than perfect?

The straight answer is basically that for some people, at some ...
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Who should I invite?

Deciding who needs to be involved in change – – – ...
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Why-How Charting

Why-How charting is a means of thoroughly exploring the logic of ...
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Working in Two PowerPoint Windows

Guidance on using two PowerPoint Windows to enable facilitation by using ...