Beatrice Briggs - The Lucid Meetings Blog

From the Michigan Woods to Internationally Recognized Facilitator

November 1991. Northern Michigan, almost at the Canadian border. Ten people gathered in a rustic inn for a weeklong training in group facilitation and consensus decision-making. I had recently joined a grass roots, ecological network in which...

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How to Prevent the Opinion Wars That Derail Decision Making

One of the most important reasons for holding a meeting is to make decisions. Yet too often, the decision-making process degenerates into a battle between competing points of view. Participants become polarized, entrenched in their positions and...

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The Root Cause of Boring, Unproductive Meetings

Imagine yourself sitting in yet another mind numbing, time-wasting meeting. And then imagine that instead of thinking about all the other things you have to do when the meeting finally ends, you ask yourself “How did we...

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Author: Beatrice Briggs

From the Michigan Woods to Internationally Recognized Facilitator

How to Prevent the Opinion Wars That Derail Decision Making

The Root Cause of Boring, Unproductive Meetings