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Reflections related to Better Online Meetings

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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 ...
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Creating a Virtual Spiritual Retreat

Most of us are blessed with so many beautiful places where we can can go and gaze, and wonder, and connect with something much bigger ...
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Why Virtual Meetings can be great for diversity

Organisations tend to think they want diversity, and then they go about getting people to ‘fit-in’. We recruit people from a range of different backgrounds, ...
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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 ...
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The disabling nature of stress

We need some level of stress in our lives. It is often what motivates and excites us and makes our lives interesting. But when that ...
Weekly Update - The role of meetings in mental health

Weekly Update – The role of meetings in mental health

Mental health (or rather the lack of it) is receiving a lot of attention currently. There is a lot going on in the World that ...