Basic attention tools. Techniques for helping build good teamwork within a meeting. These attention tools will help you to build trust and openness. And this will help the flow of ideas and how people listen to them. Simply glance through the boxes below and click on the assembly tools that interest you.
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Rules for Effective Teamwork
Work with your team to develop the basis for more effective ...
Using Meeting Timers for Efficient, High Energy and Creative Meetings
We spend more of our working time in meetings than virtually ...
Facilitation Supercards
Facilitation Supercards are the brainchild of Lisette Sutherland who curates the ...
Effective Flipcharting
10 tips for using flipcharts facilitatively There is a lot of ...
Micro-Polling
Six quick and simple tools to maintain engagement – – – ...
How do I facilitate the template?
Before you start reading this, please know that there is a ...
Breakout Groups within meeting sessions
How to use breakouts to increase participation and ownership – – ...
PMI
PMI stands for Plus Minus and Interesting. It is a simple ...
Task Skills and Maintenance Skills
Kurt Lewins’ model provides a really helpful insight into keeping your ...
The peril of shortcuts in fuzzy language
Certain words and turns of phrase are deceptively ambiguous. We think ...
Facilitation Tools and Techniques
Facilitation tools, resources and guidance to enable working environments where people ...
Understand differences
Using psychometrics to build shared appreciation of others – – – ...
Diversity and non-inclusive language
Ways to encourage people to bring their whole selves – – ...
Contracting meeting behaviour
Using shared development of ground rules to build teamwork – – ...
Questions to shift Attention
Maintaining mindfulness over how we are being inclusive – – – ...
Questions to influence the flow
Clever use of questions to guide flow and direction – – ...
Have I heard you correctly?
Techniques to advance listening and shared understanding – – – – ...
Building consensus remotely
How to gain ownership and agreement out of conflict – – ...
Presentation Timers
Simple tools to help keep your meeting to time – – ...
Growing people by meetings
Meetings are a huge opportunity to develop people – – – ...
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Cannot find the assembly tools you are looking for?
The full meeting toolchest is a comprehensive selection of tools and techniques to support good facilitation of better meetings. But a large selection can prove a bit overwhelming to someone just starting out. For this reason we limit what is offered in the basic section of the site. However, the full set is freely available – simply click on the advanced tab at the top of the page. And this will give you full access.
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