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