I’m delivering loads of live-online training about online meetings at the moment. There’s Remote Meetings Mastery (with Lisette Sutherland) and Remote Agile Facilitator for Adventures with Agile, plus a train-the-trainer for ICAgile. Plus, I’m gearing up for the year’s biggest online event for Clean Language enthusiasts, Metaphorum 2019. And there’s one question that keeps being …
Should You Record Online Meetings And/Or Training? Read More »
Facilitators love sticky-notes! Colourful, accessible, flexible… and temporary. They allow groups to capture and manipulate their thoughts in an accessible, interactive way. So when facilitators start to work online – assuming that they’re able to see and hear everyone clearly, and have video breakout rooms to play with – it’s sticky notes (aka Post-Its) that …
The 3 Questions You Must Ask Before Choosing An Online Sticky-Note Tool Read More »
Meetings tend to proliferate as organisations grow, but in-the-room ones are limited by… rooms. As our meetings go remote, and that physical constraint is removed, it seems the number of meetings can quickly get out of control. That’s just maths, apparently. (Read more on this in my recent blog post.) As the time available for …
Are Your Meetings Metastasising? Here’s The Cure Read More »
If, like many of the people I work with, you’re wondering why your calendar is packed with back-to-back remote meetings, this post is for you. It turns out there’s a scientific explanation. Let me share the details. First, we need to understand why most meetings happen: At the most basic level, teams meet to quickly …
Because I live my work life in remote meetings, it’s easy for me to fail to understand what it’s like for office-based colleagues. And the reverse is also true. A large team I worked with recently were half head-office-based, half remote-based (mainly working from home). In our workshop, they learned a lot about each other’s …
