Icebreakers: How to Use Them and 6 You Can Try!
Icebreakers take a lot of heat. Here are three different objectives that icebreakers can help you achieve, with two examples for each.
Posts Tagged: effective meetings
Getting Your Team Through the Groan Zone
To get through the zone without losing the engagement of your team will take patience, planning, and persistence. Structuring the meetings to be more effective is a place to start.
3 Ways Leaders Can Create a Seriously Engaged Team
As a team leader, it will be your job (along with a facilitator) to guard against allowing the team to get stuck in this zone of familiarity. But how do you challenge your team while supporting and encouraging them to pursue thinking more deeply about the problem?
Inspiring Your Team to Solve Problems: Why We Fail and Tips for Better Engagement
After trying different approaches, I discovered a framework and techniques that improved my meeting outcomes and fostering of team collaboration.
8 Steps to Rock Your Next Meeting
Tired of those meetings that drone on endlessly with no tangibles in sight? Fear not. Here are eight steps to rock your next meeting.
Whose Meeting is this Anyway?
Research from studies indicate meetings can often be unproductive, time consuming and create more questions than answers. This may be the result of not being C.L.E.A.R. Here are some things to consider.
Is a “Standing” Meeting the Key to Team Creativity?
The next time you’re tasked with coordinating a team meeting to come up with the next big creative innovative idea for your agency, remove all of the chairs from the room.
Beyond the Basics: How to Master Holding a Meeting
Over the course of my career, I have run hundreds of meetings, trainings and events in the corporate world, civic organizations and the government — and I’m here to share some tips.
Negotiating the Fear out of Negotiation: Part II
Tactics for successful negotiations.
Negotiating the Fear out of Negotiation: Part I
In this week’s blog, I will cover some of the general lessons I learned about negotiations that can also apply to general conversations and interactions with others.