I’ve been thinking a lot about how some teams are designed to operate with uncertainty, but most are not. The teams that operate in uncertain conditions never know what they’ll face when they show up to work....
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...
The folks at Lane End Conferences recently put together an infographic about meetings that they’ve asked us to share (see the full picture below). We were intrigued because, unlike most infographics on the topic, this one acknowledges...
There are four distinct roles within a collaborative meeting: Leader, Facilitator, Note-Taker, and Participant. So what happens if you have to be Leader and Facilitator at the same time? Here are tips to make the best of...
Over the past 15 years, we’ve spent a lot of time helping teams get work done using collaboration software. We’ve worked as developers, consultants, marketers, project managers, and volunteers, with companies and organizations across sectors ranging from...
