Introducing Tammy SpannThe Lucid Meetings team is delighted to welcome our newest template designer, Tammy Adams Spann. We first met Tammy at a workshop she and David Spann conducted on decision making in meetings (a topic near and dear...
Introducing Pilar Orti The Lucid Meetings team is delighted to welcome our newest template designer, Pilar Orti. We’ve been following Pilar’s work for some time now. She is both a frequent collaborator of Lisette Sutherland’s and the...
In the month since we published a taxonomy of the 16 Types of Business Meetings, we’ve heard from many people who say it’s given them a useful new perspective on how to approach their meetings. We’ve also...
Update September 2018 This blog post introduced the Meeting Performance Maturity Model (MPMM) for the first time. The latest published version of the MPMM can be found here. Learning to run a meeting well is a worthy...
Every organization exists to create value. Companies work to create value for customers and stakeholders. Education exists to create value for students and the community. Non-profits create value for members and society at large. Government should create...
Introducing Nancy Settle-Murphy It’s my pleasure to welcome renowned virtual collaboration expert Nancy Settle-Murphy to the blog. Recently I gave a talk about taking government meetings online, and was asked how to succeed when the meeting was...
I’m thrilled to introduce Dr. Patricia Thompson to the community of meeting designers and coaches featured on our blog. I first learned about Dr. Thompson and her work through an article she wrote for Harvard Business Review...
Are successful meetings what your company sells?Is your non-profit’s mission to help others run more effective meetings? Unless you are a professional facilitator or a meeting software company, the answer is probably “No.” Do you need the...
After more than 25 years of facilitating meetings and training groups, Beatrice Briggs, founder and director of the International Institute for Facilitation and Change, believes she’s seen almost every group facilitation situation imaginable. Yet, she continues to receive...
In November, I was pleased to be invited to present our advice for running successful virtual meetings to the Government of Alberta as part of their Greening Government Speaker Series. The series goal is to stimulate interest,...
What is a meeting cadence and why does it matter? In our post about why teams meet, I outlined two basic rules: Meet to maintain momentum. Meet to change course. Kickoffs, retrospectives, emergency meetings, planning sessions, workshops,...
Behind every effort to improve an organization’s meetings, you’ll find a larger initiative focused on increasing productivity and improving culture. Organizations that run effective meetings as a matter of course do so because it improves the productivity...
