PODCAST: Do Your Meetings Suck? (The Biz Dojo)
In this episode of The Biz Dojo, Seth Anderson, J.P. Gaston and Lauren Green explore some common issues with meetings, what can make them better, and how visual notetaking is a complete game-changer to creating connection between meeting goers and the content.
3 Visual Energizers for In-Person and Online Meetings
Energizers are the glue that keeps your agenda together, especially virtually. Energizers should always have a purpose, whether building connections, testing technology, or modeling behavior. Here are three of our favorite visual energizers to use in meetings.
8 Models Every Facilitator Should Be Able to Draw Live
A model is a diagram that helps convey a key concept using strategically aligned words and images used in a meeting to encourage a specific mindset or prompt thinking in a new way. Here are eight essential models and how to draw them.
PODCAST: Born Into Facilitation (Facilitation Lab)
In this episode of the Facilitation Lab Podcast, Lauren Green joins host Douglas Ferguson to discuss her journey as a facilitator. Douglas and Lauren discuss the importance of facilitation training for leaders and strong participant communication before and after meetings. Listen in for practical tips to improve your hybrid meetings.
5 Simple Visual Planning Templates
When questions and ideas are visualized, it’s easier to identify what knowledge and plans are missing. A visual template works like a silent facilitator, making meetings faster, smoother and easier to facilitate.
Designing Effective Meeting Agreements
Meeting agreements can be ground rules, metaphors, or principles that help groups understand behavior expectations during a meeting. In this blog, we share our favorite meeting agreements and explain how to pick out the best agreement for your group’s success.
Visual Facilitation Tools for New-to-Visual Facilitators
Visual tools help people see their ideas in a way that gets people focused and on the same page. Sixty-five percent of the population are visual learners, so if you’re not using visuals, you’re missing out on a huge opportunity to engage participants.
PODCAST: How to Build Your Confidence as a Facilitator
Lauren Green joins Myriam Hadnes, host of the workshops work podcast, for a conversation about becoming a more confident facilitator, the connection between dance and facilitation, and the value of silence.
Using Online Whiteboards in Meetings for Beginners
If you’re new to facilitating with online tools, be prepared to feel unprepared. This blog will give you our beginner tips for getting started with an online whiteboard and helping participants adapt to a new tool.
PODCAST: Meetings, Movement, and Change (Illustri.us)
During this podcast from February 2021, Joran, Geoffrey, and Lauren belly laugh their way through early hybrid meeting facilitation experiences, the trials of a Pandemic year, and bringing movement into facilitation.
WEBINAR: Virtual Facilitation in 18 Minutes (with Lizard Brain)
Facilitating online is different than being in the room, but it doesn't have to be worse. Watch this 18-minute webinar for simple and purposeful ways to make your online meetings more engaging, productive, and dare we say, fun!
Breaking Ice Online: 5 Energizers for Virtual Meetings
Energizers are the glue that keeps your agenda together, especially virtually. Here are five energizers you can use virtually to build connection, test technology, and model behavior.
5 Steps to Stay Focused When Teaching Online
With a few simple shifts, we can make virtual meetings and classrooms more efficient, productive, engaging, and collaborative, all while ensuring our sanity and focus as facilitators and educators.
Facilitation Design for Whole Systems
A whole-systems approach assumes that “the knowledge is in the room” and that participants already have everything they need to create a successful solution, idea, or initiative. All they need is the path to get them there and a guide to show them the way.
8 Tips for Emerging Facilitators
Transitioning into the world of facilitation and organization development is tough, especially for recent graduates or those early in their careers. Here are a few tips from Lauren that helped her make the career transition that led her to where she is now.
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The best weekly meetings clarify priorities and help everyone feel ready to do their best work. With the right agenda, your team meeting can run itself without losing control.
For more, listen to This Meeting Sucks Season 2 Episode 4 on effective weekly meetings with your team.