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100 Good Group Videos
A Complete Listener
A Culture of Listening
A problem defined is half-solved
About my Tips, Videos, and Handouts
Action precedes understanding
Affirm to get along
Agendas should have times
Agendas with end times are efficient
Align purpose, technique, attitude
Alignment between words and deeds builds trust
All in – Two votes
Are you listening? Four levels of proof
Attribution Bias
Before and After
Bring you
Business Cards Rock!
Categorical Judgment
Chairs in a circle
Cheap fiction or great literature?
Choices are never perfect, choose anyway
Citizen Democracy
Come to the Meeting!
Community Advisory Panels Build Community Bridges
Connect with a higher purpose
Connect with your Mission
Credit the Group from the Field
Disability friendly meeting technology
Do What’s Light
Doin’ Good
Don’t leave me hanging! – Advice for e-communication
Double-check your decision
Empathy and Respect
Encourage volunteerism
Every Problem Has At Least Two Solutions
Everyone’s job is no one’s job
Face-to-face is still the best
Fast or Good?
Feedback is a gift
Femaleadership – Benefits of Women in Leadership
Find what makes you great
Gender respect: yes, please
Go big or go home? Maybe not.
Good deeds and Mr. Goodbars
Good Group Tips in the Jury Room
Good Meeting Guidelines
Google Docs for Group Reports
Great gifts are not always new
Ground Rules for Conflict Resolution
Here’s What I Heard
High School Facilitator
How I Wrote Together We Decide, with Discussion
How to build community – Food!
How to call on people
How to decide what you don’t decide
How to Determine Value
How to facilitate meetings – Four Essential Functions
How to find peace – Let go of the outcome
How to Form a Committee – 5 Essentials
How to get a group to cut down a list
How to handle rule-breaking
How to handle the person who talks too much – Validate and hear from others
How to handle when someone walks out
How to have an effective meeting – the basics
How to have movement in your meeting
How to help your meeting – Responsibility for Attitude
How to move on
How to NOT be invisible in meetings
How to prevent conflict – Build Shared Understanding
How to show the big picture – Use a Handout
How to Untangle a Conflict
How to Use Microphones for Group Interaction
I am the Solution
I didn’t do anything wrong
If you could have a superpower
If your glass is half empty, get a smaller glass
Info from the Front Lines
Inspired to Act
Interest-Based Bargaining: A Creative Approach to Collective Bargaining
Intergenerational Communications – How to talk about it
Is it okay to shut someone down?
Is your idea worthy of group time?
It’s the planning, not the plan
Jokes and Sarcasm Reveal Character and Culture
Keep your strategic plan off the shelf
Key ingredients for collaboration (it’s way more than IT)
Leadership is inspiring, not requiring
Learn a lot fast in the room
Learn about somebody different
Let a small group resolve it
Let people change plans
Light of God in Every Person
Listen to your enemies
Long term collaboration needs special effort
Make deposits before withdrawals
Make Shift Coffee House
Make the most of your pre-meeting
Many presentations quick? How to do that!
Many Stories, Many Truths
Measuring What’s Important to Maine: A 25-year Look Back
Meeting Guidelines Written
Meeting introductions
Meeting Room First Impressions Matter
Meeting Room Set Up Demonstration Video
Meeting Room Set Up Time-Lapse Video
Men, Make Room
Most Conflict is Because of Misunderstanding
Move in your meetings
Music!
No one’s writing anything down!
Nonprofit Collaboration
Pay it Forward
Peace and profit come from good group decisions
People are complicated and colorful
Providing structure provides fairness
Public input in many ways
Ready for Good from Anywhere
Recalculating
Resonate
Robert’s Rules of Order – Key Principles Explained
Role of the Chair Person
Round Robin
Say it with a sign
Say your third thought
Seven Secrets for Successful Meetings
Should facilitators make suggestions?
Show What You Think
Silence
Six Simple Ground Rules for a Civil Conversation
Someone Neutral in Charge of the Process
Strong Decisions Vs. Weak Decisions
Table discussion guides
Take breaks to make more of your meeting
Tasks and Relationships
Teacher Appreciation
That’s the way it looks from here
The best arguments
The Best I Can Do Is Pray
The Potato Salad Solution
The Right to Understand
The seduction of urgency
Three Ways to Keep Your Plan Alive
Three Ways to Shred Rapport
Tips for Running Effective Meetings
Transparent Facilitation
Two Conditions for Conflict Resolution
Understanding and Trust: Both Required
Understanding is always partial
Unique Room Set Up
Use the Screen for Reflecting
Want creativity? Make room.
Welcome new members
What is a Good Group Decision?
What is a vision statement?
What we think we know is dangerous
When someone throws a brick at you
When to unpack conflict as a group
When you speak from personal experience
Whole Picture in Brief
Why 16-year-olds should vote
Win with grace
Write stuff down
You can’t uncommunicate
An Essential Guide for Making Good Group Decisions
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