Just one idea can make a difference. Click on any of the meeting toolkit panels below that catch your interest. Simply follow your nose – the colour coding relates to the model of effectivemeetings.
Or try out the instant participation tools here.
Basic meeting tools and techniques for better Assembly
WFH Exercises
Simply click the wheel, then click on the exercise identified, and ...
Virtual Flip Charts
Virtual Flip Charts are a free, simple and easy way of ...
Improving virtual meeting memory – 15 things that can improve our recall
The increase in virtual meetings, and the similarity of our surroundings ...
Virtual Meeting Timers
Probably the most useful tools to help people keep their meetings ...
‘Arriving’ at your Online Meeting
Bringing the best version of yourself to the party – – ...
Making the room your own – confidence
Simple things like repositioning the flipchart can do a lot to ...
Establishing a meeting culture for effectiveness
Do we tolerate poor meeting behaviour because it is so prevalent ...
Who should I invite?
Deciding who needs to be involved in change – – – ...
Online Meeting Rooms
Setting up online meeting rooms for better participation – – – ...
Environment and Ambience
Using visuals and audio to influence attitudes – – – – ...
Opening Questions
Using questions to engage early participation from people. – – – ...
Readiness Check-in
Building responsibility for bringing our best to meetings. – – – ...
Early Participation
Quick and simple techniques for remote participation – – – – ...
Alternatives to ‘meeting’
Virtual tools to do some, or all, of your meeting offline ...
Growing people by meetings
Meetings are a huge opportunity to develop people – – – ...
Contracting participation
Get the people you want by preparing them beforehand – – ...
Basic meeting tools and techniques for better Alignment
Threshold of Pride
Setting practical worthwhile goals by accessing our feelings about them – ...
Pictorial Visioning
Using visual images to work with our hopes for the future ...
Objectives and Agenda
Steps to defining a powerful purpose and process – – – ...
Using a ‘Parking Lot’
Keeping on track by effectively managing distractions – – – – ...
Questions to build Alignment
Using questions to build agreement to a shared purpose – – ...
Hopes and Concerns
A simple way to draw out and manage hidden agendas – ...
Planning matrix for meetings
Maximise your meeting efficiency with this design tool – – – ...
Session Plans
Building clarity over your intent, methods and timings – – – ...
Laying out your process
Making the journey and progress of the meeting visible – – ...
Checking back on the objectives
Learning from how well the objectives have been met – – ...
Basic meeting tools and techniques for better Activity
Facilitator Cards – an easy way to start facilitation
Facilitation cards are simple, fun way to step into facilitation and ...
Meeting tools and sticky notes are not an alternative to dialogue
Contrary to what some may believe, meeting tools and sticky notes ...
Google Jamboard
Getting started on Virtual Whiteboards Google Jamboard is probably the simplest ...
Working in Two PowerPoint Windows
Guidance on using two PowerPoint Windows to enable facilitation by using ...
Participative Problem Solving
How do you get a group of people to list and ...
Why-How Charting
Why-How charting is a means of thoroughly exploring the logic of ...
Instant Participation Templates
Select a tool (for help, click here), Click to open, share ...
Walk Round Process – Breakout Feedback
An alternative to breakout feedback that is quicker, more engaging, and ...
Affinity – The most useful tool of all
Affinity: the simplest & most powerful means of participation – – ...
The power of the post-it
Use sticky notes to aid participation, fairness & ownership – – ...
The importance of variety
Catering for difference and diversity in people and styles – – ...
Questions to engage Activity
Using questions to drive exploration, dialogue and insight – – – ...
Tools to support creativity
Tools which help the mind to adopt new perspectives – – ...
Better brainstorming | Template
Brainstorming works better if the rules are followed – – – ...
Using SWOT Analysis
Using SWOT as a simple means to shared understanding – – ...
Driving activity between meetings
Using ‘always-on’ whiteboards to keep the thinking active – – – ...
Basic meeting tools and techniques for better Attention
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 – – – ...
Basic meeting tools and techniques for better Action
Simple Kanban
At its core, Kanban is a visual management method that aims ...
Action Planning Sheet
Building clarity over what needs to happen to progress – – ...
Identifying low-hanging fruit
Using an impact-ease grid to maximise leverage on results – – ...
Avoiding action fugginess – Kipling Lists
Ensuring the who, what, when, where, how, and why – – ...
Using a planning chart
Laying it all out in detail to ensure it fits in ...
Questions to encourage Action
Using questions to bring clarity to what will happen when – ...
The $500 bet
The question that causes people to take another look – – ...
Action Minutes
A quick and simple way to document responsibilities – – – ...
Challenging commitment
There are many levels to commitment, which are we at? – ...
Tracking Action Completion
Applying ‘what gets measured gets done’ to actions – – – ...
Conducting difficult conversations
Addressing issues in delivery and commitment – – – – – ...
Re-balancing motivation
Using a force-field diagram to improve adopter engagement – – – ...
Looking at the implications
Mapping the downsides to turn them into upsides – – – ...
Conducting a Pre-Mortem
A clever way to learn from failure BEFORE it happens – ...
Photocapture of meeting outputs
Mobile tools that make it easy to record outcomes – – ...
Driving activity between meetings
Using ‘always-on’ whiteboards to keep the thinking active – – – ...
Basic meeting tools and techniques for better Assessment
Tracking Audience Mood and Responses
There is a skill in presenting at the right pace and ...
The one strategy most likely to succeed
When it comes down to it, all change is personal. It ...
Meeting Effectiveness Maturity Model
Maturity Models are simply tables that describe the journey between poor ...
Tracking your progress in ensuring productive meetings
Why do so many inefficient meetings exist? Meetings are a crucial ...
Questions to support Assessment
Good questions are the most powerful tools available to us The ...
What does it mean if I receive feedback that is less than perfect?
The straight answer is basically that for some people, at some ...
Structuring Effective Meetings
If you are an organisation or individual seeking to create an ...
Checking back on the objectives
Learning from how well the objectives have been met – – ...
Meeting Review using WWW/AFI
About meeting reviews Meeting Reviews are a simple and grossly under-utilised ...