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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.
This Is Your Brain On Data Overload
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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.
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.
Own Your Own Meeting Experience - Four Ways To Do
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.
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.
Effectiveness of Six Meeting Venues to Solve Problems and Generate Unique Ideas
If solving problems or generating high quality ideas are among your primary meeting goals, which of the many meeting modes available in today’s technological world should you choose to achieve optimal success? Face to face?
Leading from a Distance
Most workers today lead, manage, or collaborate with people they do not see on a regular basis. There are many good business reasons for the everincreasing geographic distribution of organizations: the desire to be close to customers and emerging markets, outsourcing/off-shoring, mergers and acquisitions, business continuity/disaster recovery, the need to access top talent from around the world, and more.
Business Meetings: The Case For Face-To-Face
Can webconferences, videoconferences and other virtual meetings really take the place of face-to-face contact? With travel budgets slashed in the wake of recessionary belt-tightening, companies are increasingly turning to technology as a substitute for in-person contact.
A New Approach to Meeting Design Engaging Event Participants to Generate Bottom-line Results
Recent media reports have taken corporations to task for holding ‘lavish’ meetings after receiving government bailout money. Fearing negative publicity and facing declining profits, some of these firms, as well as, other companies not receiving government funds, are considering canceling or scaling back their events.
How Do Collaborative Meeting Systems Affect the Bottom Line?
As technology advances and our global economy strains to stabalize, what can leaders do to enhance productivity and improve their organization’s bottom line?
About FacilitatePro
FacilitatePro is a cloud based or self hosted application that helps groups brainstorm and evaluate ideas, from any device, anywhere, anytime. Ideas you can implement. Decisions that have buy-in. FacilitatePro collects and distills your rain of ideas into the highest quality, clearest output possible to make your brainstorm effective and productive.
Testimonials
FacilitatePro allows union members and management representatives to brainstorm key issues anonymously, so that the best ideas surface without any social or political inhibitors. With Facilitatepro we are able to bring the two sides of the table together, in a conference room or over the internet. The result is a common action plan to promote job and business growth.Jim Reid
High Performance Work Organization Partnerships, IAMAW