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...
Angela Monson, RDH, PhDDepartment Chair of Dental Hygiene Minnesota State University, Mankato Angela, one of our newest customers, called in with a problem. She’d started using Lucid to organize and run her meetings, and had her team...
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...
Many people are unhappy with how their meetings work. Some of these people try to improve their meetings. Of those who try to improve their meetings, a few achieve dramatic results. Sweeping, business-changing, revolutionary improvement. Others make small...
More than half of a middle manager’s day is spent in meetings and $37 billion dollars is the very high figure for revenue lost annually due to the time being spent in unproductive meetings. In fact, in...
Introducing Dan Prock The Lucid Meetings team is delighted to welcome our newest template designer, Dan Prock. We met Dan through Ingrid Bens, and quickly realized he had specialized expertise that we were missing. Dan Prock helps...
Meetings are an important component of virtually any business. In the past, it was not uncommon for meeting participants to board a plane and fly to another coast or international locations. This was necessary to ensure that...
