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Designing Productive Virtual Meetings Series Danuta McCall and Julia Young, Facilitate.com Most facilitators and team leaders see the...

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...

Eliminating Static from Collaborative Strategic Planning The senior leadership meeting had already lasted an entire day when the CEO...

Julia Young, Facilitate.com Nancy Settle-Murphy, Guided Insights Innovation is the core of your business. You've got a very short time to...

From Push to Pull: The Rationale for Interactive Meetings & Webinars As facilitators and trainers working primarily in the virtual world...

Julia Young, Facilitate.com ​ What is a “Virtual” Meeting? A virtual meeting is an event or series of events where participants join in...

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)

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.

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.

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.

1. A good meeting requires good planning. Well run and effective meetings require a lot of planning. A typical meeting model is: 10%...

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.

1. Focus on the meeting content not the technology Choose tools that are easy to use. During the meeting spend as little time explaining...

1. Preparation for online meetings – Pay attention to logistics Structure an agenda to keep things on track – it’s hard to get away with...

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.