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Ownership CultureManagement want it … Management just want it to happen … Management want us to do it – phrases we should never, ever, hear! And yet, … Read more |
3. Purpose – clarity of aims and approach
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Building AlignmentWhile conflict within a meeting can be creative and productive, it can also be wasteful and damaging.It all depends on what the conflict is about. … Read more |
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Structuring Effective MeetingsIf you are an organisation or individual seeking to create an effective future, the key medium you have to effect this is in how you … Read more |
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Meeting Effectiveness Maturity ModelMaturity Models provide a ‘less-prescriptive’ way of engaging individuals and groups in developing practical goals for adopting best practice. They work by means of describing … Read more |
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Flow and Employee EngagementThe bottom line is it’s critical to your bottom line … but how do you do it? The following article is the work of Kath … Read more |
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SessionLab meeting/workshop planning toolSession plans are key to ensuring a efficient meeting, particularly when the meeting is large, long, complex and covering new ground. I use session plans as an … Read more |
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How to Build a Better BusinessHow to Build a Better Business is an e-book. It contains straightforward guidance on how to use QFD to design and manage your organisation, and … Read more |
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Rich-Picture VisioningRaise your hand if you believe you understand how passion works! Perhaps not? Passion is strange thing – immensely powerful in its impact, but confusingly … Read more |
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Why-How ChartingWhy-How charting is a means of thoroughly exploring the logic of how an entity works, and why it does what it is endeavouring to do. The … Read more |
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Defining meeting objectives and agendaClarity of objectives and process (agenda) is key to efficient meetings – both in terms of planning the meeting, and in terms of aligning people … Read more |
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Developing a vision for web-based meetingsWhat is your vision for web-based meetings? While you may appreciate the importance of visions and clear pictures of what you are working toward, it … Read more |
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Scale of CommitmentMeeting design tends to concern itself predominantly with arriving at the right logical outcome; it is focused on the necessity of coming out with the … Read more |
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What is culture?How do your meetings influence the culture of your organisation? Culture is defined as the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that are … Read more |
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QFD for meetingsMeetings are essentially a series of activities put together to achieve a number of objectives. In many cases these are not a simple 1:1 relationship. … Read more |
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Thinking processes and templatesDecision making, whether individual or collective, appears to be something that we don’t ‘think about’ very often, and yet there is a pattern to it … Read more |
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Kolb’s Learning CycleIt used to be thought that learning was something people did when they were at school or on a training course of some type. This … Read more |
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Session PlansReally effective and efficient meetings are rarely achieved by accident. The following diagram shows a small section of an off-site workshop plan which reflects the … Read more |
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What sort of meeting do you need?Meetings are primarily about learning, but the work of Jean Piaget, reported by Arie de Geus in his book The Living Company, highlights that there … Read more |
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Meeting by DesignWeb-based meetings are often seen as an inferior alternative to physical meetings something to fill in the gaps when travel is too expensive or inconvenient. … Read more |
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Clothesline for target setting by consensusSee also: Clothesline for virtual meetings The clothesline is a specific adaptation of Consensus Reaching and helps a group arrive at a target and develop a shared … Read more |
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Castles in the air – Setting stretch targetsAs Henry David Thoreau observed ‘If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. … Read more |
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Interviewing GuidelinesInterviews are an extremely useful strategy for effective facilitation. They can help you to better determine the objectives for your meeting, and to to develop … Read more |
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The Purpose of MeetingsCan we define one set of purposes for all meetings? Surely there are different types of meetings? We have meetings for planning, for review of … Read more |
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Meetings – the most important processThe effectiveness of your organisation will be determined by: The level of insight you gain into your ‘customers’ and how you can best add value … Read more |