engagement Archives - Meeting Toolchest

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Strategy Engagement Matrix

The Strategy Engagement Matrix is the most powerful tool in existence for developing and engaging your people in a winning strategy – – – – … Read more

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How design thinking transforms the strategic planning process

25 years on from when engineers adapted a strategic design tool and applied it to organisation design, it is still the best strategic planning tool … Read more

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Easy ways to increase online meeting participation

The quality of a meeting, and its outcomes owes a lot to the level of participation and engagement within it. If a proportion of your … Read more

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Inviting virtual stakeholder engagement

Does the idea of inviting stakeholder engagement in all your meetings worry you? Or can you see the benefits for a wider perspective and greater … Read more

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Micro-Polling

Six quick and simple tools to maintain engagement – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – … Read more

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Questions to encourage Action

Using questions to bring clarity to what will happen when – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – … Read more

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Questions to shift Attention

Maintaining mindfulness over how we are being inclusive – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – … Read more

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Questions to engage Activity

Using questions to drive exploration, dialogue and insight – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – … Read more

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Opening Questions

Using questions to engage early participation from people. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Good … Read more

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Questions to build Alignment

Using questions to build agreement to a shared purpose – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – … Read more

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Questions to support Assessment

Good questions are the most powerful tools available to us The questions we use to support Assessment are intended to initiate self-reflection and generate learning … Read more

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Breakout Groups within meeting sessions

How to use breakouts to increase participation and ownership – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – … Read more

Effective Questions

I 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 Structures

Liberating 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

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

Flow and Employee Engagement

The bottom line is it’s critical to your bottom line … but how do you do it? The following article is the work of Kath … Read more

Pictorial Visioning

Using visual images to work with our hopes for the future can prove very motivational – – – – – – – – – – … Read more

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Contracting participation

Have you ever been in one of those meetings where it is clear that some people really don’t want to be there, and others try … Read more

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‘Active’ Listening

Active listening is wonderfully parodied by the actor Robert Lindsay in ‘The Helping Hand’: “Active listening? How am I supposed to listen ‘actively’? What do … Read more

Kolb’s Learning Cycle

It 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

Hopes & Concerns

Hopes & Concerns is a tool which enables groups to outline and share their positive and negative feelings about an event from the outset. How … Read more

Interviewing Guidelines

Interviews are an extremely useful strategy for effective facilitation. They can help you to better determine the objectives for your meeting, and to to develop … Read more

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Walk Round Process – Breakout Feedback

An alternative to breakout feedback that is quicker, more engaging, and more effective – – – – – – – – – – – – … Read more

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Steps to a Facilitative Meeting Process

Effective facilitation begins with an understanding of ‘how’ things are happening, and how that ‘how’ needs to change if things are to happen better. It … Read more

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What makes a presentation more engaging and memorable

There is a great experiment you can try around the question “what makes a presentation more engaging and memorable?” Slowly read to yourself this list of … Read more