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‘Arriving’ at your Online Meeting
Bringing the best version of yourself to the party – – ...
Action Minutes
A quick and simple way to document responsibilities – – – ...
Action Planning Sheet
Building clarity over what needs to happen to progress – – ...
Affinity – The most useful tool of all
Affinity: the simplest & most powerful means of participation – – ...
Alternatives to ‘meeting’
Virtual tools to do some, or all, of your meeting offline ...
Avoiding action fugginess – Kipling Lists
Ensuring the who, what, when, where, how, and why – – ...
Better brainstorming | Template
Brainstorming works better if the rules are followed – – – ...
Brainwriting: A Structured Approach to Inclusive Ideation
Discover how brainwriting fosters inclusive ideation by letting every participant share ...
Breakout Groups within meeting sessions
How to use breakouts to increase participation and ownership – – ...
Building consensus remotely
How to gain ownership and agreement out of conflict – – ...
Challenging commitment
There are many levels to commitment, which are we at? – ...
Checking back on the objectives
Learning from how well the objectives have been met – – ...
Conducting a Pre-Mortem
A clever way to learn from failure BEFORE it happens – ...
Conducting difficult conversations
Addressing issues in delivery and commitment – – – – – ...
Contracting meeting behaviour
Using shared development of ground rules to build teamwork – – ...
Contracting participation
Get the people you want by preparing them beforehand – – ...
Cultural issues in meeting preparation
Meeting inefficiency, particularly around lack of preparation, often stems from inadvertently ...
Diversity and non-inclusive language
Ways to encourage people to bring their whole selves – – ...
Driving activity between meetings
Using ‘always-on’ whiteboards to keep the thinking active – – – ...
Early Participation
Quick and simple techniques for remote participation – – – – ...
Effective Flipcharting
10 tips for using flipcharts facilitatively There is a lot of ...
Environment and Ambience
Using visuals and audio to influence attitudes – – – – ...
Establishing a meeting culture for effectiveness
Do we tolerate poor meeting behaviour because it is so prevalent ...
Facilitation Supercards
Facilitation Supercards are the brainchild of Lisette Sutherland who curates the ...
Facilitation Tools and Techniques
Facilitation tools, resources and guidance to enable working environments where people ...
Facilitator Cards – an easy way to start facilitation
Facilitation cards are simple, fun way to step into facilitation and ...
Google Jamboard
Getting started on Virtual Whiteboards Google Jamboard is probably the simplest ...
Growing people by meetings
Meetings are a huge opportunity to develop people – – – ...
Have I heard you correctly?
Techniques to advance listening and shared understanding – – – – ...
Hopes and Concerns
A simple way to draw out and manage hidden agendas – ...
How do I facilitate the template?
Before you start reading this, please know that there is a ...
Identifying low-hanging fruit
Using an impact-ease grid to maximise leverage on results – – ...
Improving virtual meeting memory – 15 things that can improve our recall
The increase in virtual meetings, and the similarity of our surroundings ...
Instant Participation Templates
Select a tool (for help, click here), Click to open, share ...
Laying out your process
Making the journey and progress of the meeting visible – – ...
Looking at the implications
Mapping the downsides to turn them into upsides – – – ...
Making the room your own – confidence
Simple things like repositioning the flipchart can do a lot to ...
Meeting Effectiveness Maturity Model
Maturity Models are simply tables that describe the journey between poor ...
Meeting Review using WWW/AFI
About meeting reviews Meeting Reviews are a simple and grossly under-utilised ...
Meeting tools and sticky notes are not an alternative to dialogue
Contrary to what some may believe, meeting tools and sticky notes ...
Micro-Polling
Six quick and simple tools to maintain engagement – – – ...
Objectives and Agenda
Steps to defining a powerful purpose and process – – – ...
Online Meeting Rooms
Setting up online meeting rooms for better participation – – – ...
Opening Questions
Using questions to engage early participation from people. – – – ...
Participative Problem Solving
How do you get a group of people to list and ...
Photocapture of meeting outputs
Mobile tools that make it easy to record outcomes – – ...
Pictorial Visioning
Using visual images to work with our hopes for the future ...
Planning matrix for meetings
Maximise your meeting efficiency with this design tool – – – ...
PMI
PMI stands for Plus Minus and Interesting. It is a simple ...
Presentation Timers
Simple tools to help keep your meeting to time – – ...
Questions to build Alignment
Using questions to build agreement to a shared purpose – – ...
Questions to encourage Action
Using questions to bring clarity to what will happen when – ...
Questions to engage Activity
Using questions to drive exploration, dialogue and insight – – – ...
Questions to influence the flow
Clever use of questions to guide flow and direction – – ...
Questions to shift Attention
Maintaining mindfulness over how we are being inclusive – – – ...
Questions to support Assessment
Good questions are the most powerful tools available to us The ...
Re-balancing motivation
Using a force-field diagram to improve adopter engagement – – – ...
Readiness Check-in
Building responsibility for bringing our best to meetings. – – – ...
Rules for Effective Teamwork
Work with your team to develop the basis for more effective ...
Session Plans
Building clarity over your intent, methods and timings – – – ...
Simple Kanban
At its core, Kanban is a visual management method that aims ...
Structuring Effective Meetings
If you are an organisation or individual seeking to create an ...
Task Skills and Maintenance Skills
Kurt Lewins’ model provides a really helpful insight into keeping your ...
The $500 bet
The question that causes people to take another look – – ...
The importance of variety
Catering for difference and diversity in people and styles – – ...
The one strategy most likely to succeed
When it comes down to it, all change is personal. It ...
The peril of shortcuts in fuzzy language
Certain words and turns of phrase are deceptively ambiguous. We think ...
The power of the post-it
Use sticky notes to aid participation, fairness & ownership – – ...
Threshold of Pride
Setting practical worthwhile goals by accessing our feelings about them – ...
Tools to support creativity
Tools which help the mind to adopt new perspectives – – ...
Tracking Action Completion
Applying ‘what gets measured gets done’ to actions – – – ...
Tracking Audience Mood and Responses
There is a skill in presenting at the right pace and ...
Tracking your progress in ensuring productive meetings
Why do so many inefficient meetings exist? Meetings are a crucial ...
Understand differences
Using psychometrics to build shared appreciation of others – – – ...
Using a ‘Parking Lot’
Keeping on track by effectively managing distractions – – – – ...
Using a planning chart
Laying it all out in detail to ensure it fits in ...
Using Meeting Timers for Efficient, High Energy and Creative Meetings
We spend more of our working time in meetings than virtually ...
Using SWOT Analysis
Using SWOT as a simple means to shared understanding – – ...
Virtual Flip Charts
Virtual Flip Charts are a free, simple and easy way of ...
Virtual Meeting Timers
Probably the most useful tools to help people keep their meetings ...
Walk Round Process – Breakout Feedback
An alternative to breakout feedback that is quicker, more engaging, and ...
WFH Exercises
Simply click the wheel, then click on the exercise identified, and ...
What does it mean if I receive feedback that is less than perfect?
The straight answer is basically that for some people, at some ...
Who should I invite?
Deciding who needs to be involved in change – – – ...
Why-How Charting
Why-How charting is a means of thoroughly exploring the logic of ...
Working in Two PowerPoint Windows
Guidance on using two PowerPoint Windows to enable facilitation by using ...
Workshop & Meeting Design AI Configurator
AI Configurator for designing meetings and workshops and preparing all the ...