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6 Ways to Make Pre-Work Compelling
Designing Productive Virtual Meetings Series Danuta McCall and Julia Young, Facilitate.com Most facilitators and team leaders see the...
Danuta McCall
5 days ago6 min read
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Facing Down Your Fears About Facilitating a Virtual Meeting
Danuta McCall, Facilitate.com Even if you’ve had years of experience leading groups, you’re bound to feel a little anxious when you are...
Danuta McCall
5 days ago7 min read
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Bringing Strategic Planning Online
Eliminating Static from Collaborative Strategic Planning The senior leadership meeting had already lasted an entire day when the CEO...
Danuta McCall
5 days ago12 min read
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Virtual Brainstorming: A New Approach to Creative Thinking
Julia Young, Facilitate.com Nancy Settle-Murphy, Guided Insights Innovation is the core of your business. You've got a very short time to...
Julia Young
5 days ago4 min read
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Designing Interactive Meetings & Webinars
From Push to Pull: The Rationale for Interactive Meetings & Webinars As facilitators and trainers working primarily in the virtual world...
Mike McCall
5 days ago13 min read
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Six Critical Success Factors for Running a Successful Virtual Meeting
Julia Young, Facilitate.com What is a “Virtual” Meeting? A virtual meeting is an event or series of events where participants join in...
Julia Young
5 days ago10 min read
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10 Tips for Using AI to Make Meetings Fun and Interesting
What does AI suggest for using AI to make meetings more fun and interesting. Nothing like having the author (i.e., AI) suggesting how to use themselves. :o)
AI Generated
Jun 142 min read
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3 Ways To Engage The Introverts On Your Team
We’ve all been in meetings where some people hold forth with gusto and others listen carefully, but say nothing. We suspect that the quiet ones have a lot to contribute, and we wish that the enthusiastic meeting orators would give them some space to speak up. Researchers estimate that fully a third to a half of the individuals in your team, department or organization are likely to be introverts.
Danuta McCall
Jun 143 min read
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This Is Your Brain Overloaded by Technology
We’ve been living with information overload from our computers and smartphones for long enough that studies are beginning to draw conclusions that are a bit worrisome. The most benign of these conclusions is that multi-tasking doesn’t increase productivity for the most part, in fact you lose about 20-30% efficiency going back and forth between tasks.
Danuta McCall
Jun 143 min read
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How To Avoid A Goat Rodeo In Your Creative Process
The creative process mystifies us. It draws on the subconscious, experience, connections, imagination. We believe it’s a profoundly individual experience. And yet we often find ourselves solving problems and innovating as a group. How do we integrate all these individual creative processes into a whole? That is a particularly challenging aspect of teamwork.
Mike McCall
Jun 142 min read
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10 Tips for Good Meeting Design
1. A good meeting requires good planning. Well run and effective meetings require a lot of planning. A typical meeting model is: 10%...
Danuta McCall
Jun 143 min read
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8 Guidelines for Brainstorming Online
We've compiled some questions to help you plan the design, flow and the use of technology for successful virtual brainstorming sessions. How you design and run your remote brainstorming sessions will depend on your responses to these questions, along with other factors such as your own familiarity with available technology and getting comfortable with facilitating without the usual visual cues.
Mike McCall
Jun 143 min read
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7 Useful Tips for Facilitating with Technology
1. Focus on the meeting content not the technology Choose tools that are easy to use. During the meeting spend as little time explaining...
Danuta McCall
Jun 142 min read
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A Dozen Tips for Facilitating an Online Meeting
1. Preparation for online meetings – Pay attention to logistics Structure an agenda to keep things on track – it’s hard to get away with...
Danuta McCall
Jun 143 min read
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Own Your Own Meeting Experience
We own our experiences. It has to do with creating authentic interaction by taking responsibility for your own feelings and not blaming others. And making goals that represent your values. And being good stewards of your time.
Danuta McCall
Jun 143 min read
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