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Committing to ActionThe product of an effective meeting leaves the room in the changed attitudes, understanding and intentions of its attendees. And pursuing these intentions serves to … Read more |
O. Progress – achievement between meetings
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Action Planning SheetThe Action Planning sheet is a tool for thinking through actions in respect of ensuring they will be effectively implemented. It is particularly useful where … Read more |
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Solution Effect DiagramThe Solution Effect Diagram is a very useful variation of the Ishikawa diagram. It is used for exploring the potential implications to an intended change (sometimes … Read more |
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Persistent Project WallsUnlike physical meeting rooms, virtual meeting rooms can be limitless in their dimensions and their allocation. Information can be spread over their virtual walls with … Read more |
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Asynchronous meetingsAsynchronous means ‘not at the same time’. Asynchronous meetings are a form of collaboration where the topics, the purpose and the inputs and outputs resemble a … Read more |
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Conducting a Pre-MortemWhat is a Pre-Mortem? Courtesy Matt Byrom In conventional project management, when you undertake a risk assessment, people are asked to say what might go … Read more |
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The £500 betThis particular exercise is based on the results of a survey undertaken by a consulting organisation of failed and delayed projects. In their interviews of the … Read more |
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Photocapture of meeting outputsVirtual meetings have a big advantage over physical meetings in the area of documenting the outcomes. It is easy in a virtual meeting to simply … Read more |
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Contracting participationHave you ever been in one of those meetings where it is clear that some people really don’t want to be there, and others try … Read more |
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Developing Performance AND PotentialEvery meeting you have within your organisation has the potential to grow your people, their engagement, and their abilities through: |
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Personal Action PlansPersonal Action Plans are primarily a means of developing ownership for individual or collective behavioural change. They are analogous to normal meeting actions but differ … Read more |
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Myers-Briggs model / PsychometricsThe Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a well established psychometric tool for assessing peoples preferences in decision making activities. It was developed by a mother … Read more |
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Handling Stress and ConflictIf your meetings are dealing with important issues, then it would be unusual if some of those issues do not on occasion create some degree of stress … Read more |
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Conducting difficult conversationsThe biggest reason for poor behaviour in meetings is simply an unwillingness in people to confront it. Basically, we don’t like difficult conversations, and so … Read more |
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Action MinutesAction Minutes are simply a means of recording the key outcomes of a meeting in which people can clearly see their responsibilities for bringing those … 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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Kipling ListThe Kipling List is taken from a very short poem by Rudyard Kipling: “I had six serving men, they taught me all I knew, there … Read more |
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Impact/Ease GridThe Impact/Ease grid is a four-box model (a 2×2 positioning chart) for plotting solutions (or ideas or strategies) to reflect the impact of taking them … Read more |
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Force-Field AnalysisThe Force-Field Diagram is premised on the assumption that people and events behave (or fail to behave) as they do because of the balance of … Read more |
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Planning ChartThe Planning Chart is simply a grid, with either months, or numbers along the top, to represent periods of time into the future, and rows … Read more |
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Shortcutting the consensus processConsensus Reaching is a really useful mechanism both for building shared commitment, and for ensuring a complete understanding of all of the available facts and … Read more |
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Consensus ReachingConsensus is where every individual member of a group fully accepts the group’s conclusion for the collective benefit of the group, and is fully committed … Read more |
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RACI ChartRACI is an acronym for: Responsible; Accountable; Consulted; and Informed – four different levels of involvement that an individual might have with a particular area … Read more |