Hybrid meetings are horrible. Of course, I should really say “often horrible”. I wish I could do that with honesty. But the reality is that hybrid meetings – by which I mean the kind of meetings where the main group is in the same room, with one or two people remote – are almost universally …
If you’re a consultant, how do you want your potential clients to see you? Does that change if you’re more of a facilitator than a consultant? And do either of these change if you mostly work remotely? To what extent is it Clean to match a potential client’s metaphor for “business consultant”: to what extent …
How Should A Facilitator, Trainer Or Consultant Dress? “Smartly” or “Authentically”? Read More »
Increasing Engagement In Online Meetings: 3 Top Tips from Judy Rees I had five minutes. What were the 3 most effective things that leaders could do, to get people more engaged in online meetings? Disengagement is a real poison for online meetings. People don’t expect much from online meetings, so they don’t invest much energy …
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“If you don’t have that good open (face-to-face) communication operating to begin with, no amount of additional tooling will fix that,” commented Ray Whiting on my recent post about the best tools for remote retrospectives. He’s spot on! So, how might you develop that level of good open communication, especially when you can’t meet in …
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What are the best tools to use for retrospectives with a remote/distributed team? That question came up on LinkedIn today, as it frequently does. Whenever I hear this kind of question, I wonder what’s behind it. Is this question coming from a highly-successful remote/distributed team whose retrospectives are already great, wanting to make sure they …
