On April 1, 2020, we hosted a webinar with principals at the Mission Critical Teams Institute. We explored the communication practices business teams can learn from mission critical teams (firefighters, military, medical, and others who handle emergencies...
Introducing Mercer Smith-LooperMercer is the Head of Support at Appcues, where she manages an all-remote team of customer support representatives. In this article, Mercer describes the meetings she’s found to be most helpful for keeping her team...
A Meeting Flow Model is a form of process documentation that highlights the main meetings used to achieve a business result. In the previous article, I introduced the Meeting Flow Model (MFM) concept and described some of...
For every significant goal your company needs to achieve, your team meets. In most companies, these meetings get very little forethought. They’re just part of what happens as you do the work. In other companies, teams plan...
Introducing Michael ZipurskyThe Lucid Meetings team is delighted to welcome our newest contributor, Michael Zipursky. Our CEO met Michael when she was interviewed for his Consulting Success podcast. After the interview, Michael shared how implementing the simple...
Introducing Douglas FergusonThe Lucid Meetings team is delighted to welcome our newest contributor, Douglas Ferguson. Douglas Ferguson is the president of Voltage Control, an Austin-based agency that specializes in Innovation Transformation. We were introduced to Douglas through...
I often find inspiration for better meetings from gatherings outside the business world. I’m curious: what is it that makes someone who grimaces through every meeting pony up good money to gather with other people after work? Why do so many people...
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...
Note: This post is an excerpt from Chapter 8 in Where the Action Is: the Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization, available now on Amazon.com. Participation propels perceived meeting quality. We call it participation when we...
The Lucid Meetings team is thrilled to introduce Tree Bressen. Tree has been blessed with a calling to help groups function well. As a consultant and facilitator, her work focuses on alignment of human action towards purpose....
