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4 ways to own your meeting experience
Going through some articles I'd bookmarked for later reading, I came across a commentary by Reid Hastie, a professor at U of...
The Facilitator's Way: Plan Appropriate Group Processes
How do you select the processes, tools, and techniques that you plan to use to facilitate a group? Do you take direction from...
The Art of Steering a Virtual Session
Recently I responded to a question from someone in one of my LinkedIn professional groups. He asked: “During web...
Paying Attention to the Virtual Meeting Place
Prompted by a conversation with clients in the UK about their Innovation Labs or iLabs* that use an unexpected physical...
Anatomy of a Great Virtual Collaborator
Most people I know love working remotely. They say they get more done, prize their freedom and flexibility and have better...
Editorial
Kick off the New Year by creating a facilitator culture
Up until a few years ago, those of us who are professional facilitators were considered to be a breed apart. People turned to...
Discerning the Essential Skills for Leading Virtual Teams
[caption id="attachment_1618" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Leading Virtual Teams"][/caption] My friend and...
Time for a Virtual Work Fitness Workout
After 18 years as a telecommuter, I would characterize myself as a good virtual worker. But a recent article on the benefits...
Inside All of Us is a Great Virtual Collaborator
I was especially intrigued by a response evoked by my recent blog about the qualities of a great virtual collaborator. Alia...
Death by PowerPoint or Web Conferencing?
Was it a slow news day today or is this the meeting crisis of our time? The New York Times lead with the headline “We Have...
Feature Article
Lessons in engagement from a collaborative conference
Exploring Innovation in Community Development Finance may seem like a dry topic but the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank’s...
Select virtual meeting technology to support the group process, not the other way around
The Number One Challenge that facilitators and trainers have with virtual meetings and webinars is: How to keep participants...
iPads Add Sizzle and Creativity to Meetings
A recent post on a site called iPad CTO caught my eye because its title: Increase Productivity with iPad-driven Business...
First Things First: Create Collaborative Client Relationships
What approaches should you use to develop a collaborative relationship with a client? This is the second in my series of...
So, you want to solve problems and generate quality ideas in your meeting?
If solving problems or generating high quality ideas are among your primary meeting goals, which of the many meeting venues...
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Opinions & Commentary
Are meetings still relevant?
In a webinar earlier this year sponsored by NewWOW (New Ways of Working), David Coleman posed a provocative question: “In...
Brainstorming or brainsteering? Or a happy middle ground?
We’ve all been there. You’re asked to participate in a chaotic exercise billed as a brainstorming session. The moderator...
Productivity in the Digital Age – Is your business wired for distraction?
A recent article in The NY Times about young people Growing up Digital, Wired for Distraction got me thinking about the impact...
Good Meetings – Like Organizations – Are Guided by a Mission Statement
One way to know that you’ve arrived at the very essence of an issue or solution is when you can articulate it completely and...
Engagement - Is It the Holy Grail of Virtual Meetings?
This is an open letter to my colleague Nigel, who participated recently in one of our “Designing Interactive Webinars”...
News & Reviews
Season's Greetings - Last Webinar of the year in our Designing Interactive Webinars Series
Are your teams connected for productivity or wired for distraction? This free webinar takes a slightly different twist in the...
Unbeatable duo: New Orleans and the OD Network Conference
This is just a quick reminder to all HR and OD professionals in our community. The OD Network Conference 2010 is taking place...
Make Virtual Meetings Worth Your Time - Join Us!
Over the past year we have been offering a free webinar series entitled “Designing Interactive Virtual Meetings and Webinars...
July Webinars - How to keep participants fully engaged
With our Interactive Webinars series, we've been exploring the concept of building highly interactive elements into virtual...
Public Webinars - Leading Virtual Teams
Our colleague, Nancy Settle-Murphy at Guided Insights is offering a rare set of public sessions this month for her two most...
Case Studies
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Facilitation Tips and Techniques
The Facilitator's Way: Plan Appropriate Group Processes
How do you select the processes, tools, and techniques that you plan to use to facilitate a group? Do you take direction from...
Why Professional Certification Is So Worth It
To certify or not, that is the question. I've been asked the question “…why would I want to certify anyways, I’ve been...
7 Ways To Coax People Out of the Box in a Virtual World
Before the latest economic downturn, many of my clients would bring together people from all over the world, put them into a...
Facilitation by getting out of the way - Lessons from Open Space Technology
I recently participated in a two-day workshop to learn about Open Space Technology (OST). A quick description of this method of...
Bad Manners in Virtual Meetings - Are You Guilty?
Twenty minutes into a one hour web conference I found myself starting to multi-task. I was still listening (sure!) while I...
Facilitating Group Process
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Meeting Design
Lessons in engagement from a collaborative conference
Exploring Innovation in Community Development Finance may seem like a dry topic but the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank’s...
4 ways to own your meeting experience
Going through some articles I'd bookmarked for later reading, I came across a commentary by Reid Hastie, a professor at U of...
Good Meetings – Like Organizations – Are Guided by a Mission Statement
One way to know that you’ve arrived at the very essence of an issue or solution is when you can articulate it completely and...
Get the Point Across... Without PowerPoint
I recently came across this super example of a different type of presentation. The topic is “Drive: The surprising truth...
Engage Event Participants to Generate Bottom-line Results
It’s time for a new approach to meeting design. Unfortunately, many companies assume that a well-polished PowerPoint...
Collaboration Technology
Select virtual meeting technology to support the group process, not the other way around
The Number One Challenge that facilitators and trainers have with virtual meetings and webinars is: How to keep participants...
iPads Add Sizzle and Creativity to Meetings
A recent post on a site called iPad CTO caught my eye because its title: Increase Productivity with iPad-driven Business...
5 Tips For Using Smart Phones To Make Large Meetings Interactive
Lately I’ve been interested in the use of smart phones paired with web-based tools to make meetings more interactive. (see...
How To Use Social Networking Tools To Strengthen Virtual Collaboration
I am not one to jump on a new tool just because it’s out there. But after months of watching others and waiting, I recently...
Matching Technology Tools to Collaboration Style
I just read an interesting article published by eminent consulting firm McKinsey & Company entitled “Using technology to...
Business Collaboration
Are meetings still relevant?
In a webinar earlier this year sponsored by NewWOW (New Ways of Working), David Coleman posed a provocative question: “In...
Select virtual meeting technology to support the group process, not the other way around
The Number One Challenge that facilitators and trainers have with virtual meetings and webinars is: How to keep participants...
First Things First: Create Collaborative Client Relationships
What approaches should you use to develop a collaborative relationship with a client? This is the second in my series of...
Blended Facilitation: Have Your Cake (And Eat It Too)
Several blogs and news portals have picked up on a Forbes Insight Study conducted in June ‘09 that found 84% of the 760...
Develop Your Team's Cultural Literacy
A client of mine, a manager of organizational effectiveness for a global services firm, recently posed this question:...
Running Effective Meetings
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Virtual Meetings
Season's Greetings - Last Webinar of the year in our Designing Interactive Webinars Series
Are your teams connected for productivity or wired for distraction? This free webinar takes a slightly different twist in the...
Productivity in the Digital Age – Is your business wired for distraction?
A recent article in The NY Times about young people Growing up Digital, Wired for Distraction got me thinking about the impact...
Select virtual meeting technology to support the group process, not the other way around
The Number One Challenge that facilitators and trainers have with virtual meetings and webinars is: How to keep participants...
Engagement - Is It the Holy Grail of Virtual Meetings?
This is an open letter to my colleague Nigel, who participated recently in one of our “Designing Interactive Webinars”...
Make Virtual Meetings Worth Your Time - Join Us!
Over the past year we have been offering a free webinar series entitled “Designing Interactive Virtual Meetings and Webinars...