Unproductive meetings are a stress inducing problem for my busy clients. How can we ensure every meeting is worthwhile? The best path to productivity is tapping into the collective brainpower and creativity of everyone gathered—that’s collaboration. When everyone...
There is so much wrong with meetings right now, and according to a recent article in HBR, there are 55 million of them happening every single day! The other notable item in that article – at least half of them do not accomplish anything! My clients can’t stop...
In my last blog I described the fantastic benefits, and developed agenda for an “After Action Review”, AKA: a “Post Mortem”. Here is a link to the article, in case you missed it: https://engagingplay.com/the-after-action-review/ I thought I should take this next...
I recently coached a client on running an After Action Review (AAR) for the organization’s completed and ongoing projects. I hadn’t thought of its importance before, but helping design an effective way to learn from the successes and failures of activities the...
If you know me at all, you know I love a really good meeting opener. But I think I Love this meeting/training/event closer almost as much! There is nothing like a good closing reflection tool – not only does it help an event end on a positive cohesive note...
One of the most important things you can do at the beginning of any new team initiative, meeting, work project, or gathering is to design a team alliance. A team alliance is an agreement that is created and agreed to by the group about how the members want to be...
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