6 Steps to Resolving a Level 1 Disagreement
A disagreement arises in a meeting you are facilitating. This is an inevitable scenario in…
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Effective Recording Techniques: Capturing Information
As a meeting facilitator, you must employ several techniques for recording information in a session…
Leadership Skills
Recommended format for defining strategies
During strategic planning, as your team arrives at the stage of defining the broad activities…
Business Planning
What March Madness teaches us about facilitation
Here we go. It's now down to the Final Four in this year's NCAA March…
Leadership Skills
6 Things You’ll Hear in an Unprepared Meeting
Many times, we, as facilitators, are not prepared (or ill prepared) for meetings, and that…
Leadership Skills
Checklist: 8 Tips for Transforming Virtual Meetings
While Richard Smith and I wrote CLICK: The Virtual Meetings Book, we received many questions…
Leadership Skills
Your (Leadership) Role in Establishing Goals
As a leader in your organization, part of your role during strategic planning is to…
Business Planning
Painting the Picture – A Sample Visioning Exercise
To help determine your organization’s goals, utilize a visualization exercise that guides the team through…
Business Planning
Stand Out from Competition: Positioning Strategies
In the course of developing strategic plans, organizations often find themselves taking a step back…
Business Planning
What consensus really means
My experiences has led me to conclude that “consensus” is a widely misunderstood concept. Many…
Leadership Skills
Strategies for getting your ideas on the table without overpowering the group
As a result of the lack of challenge many leaders experience within their own walls,…
Business Planning
3 Common Meeting Dysfunctions and How to Handle Them
Here are three common dysfunction types I've seen in the meeting room. (Haven't we all?)…
Leadership Skills
7 Key Activities a Strategy Leader Should Do
As the strategy leader, you have seven activities to which I recommend you pay close…
Business Planning
Leading v. Facilitating Strategic Planning
A major difference between leading and facilitating is that a leader often tells; a facilitator…
Business Planning
8 Brainstorming Steps: The Art of Generating Ideas
Generating ideas and gathering facts are probably the most common functions performed by groups in…
Leadership Skills
Why Do You Need a Plan?
Developing strategy takes time and resources. It requires the time and commitment of some of…