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How to Lead a Group Discovery Meeting: Facilitation Techniques for Consultants

Introducing Ingrid Bens The Lucid Meetings team is delighted to welcome our newest template designer, Ingrid Bens. Ingrid is an award-winning author and facilitator whom we’ve known for many years. When we heard she had a new...

Categories meeting design

Strategic Planning Meeting Essentials Pack

Creating a strategic plan for your business is a critical task for the leadership of every company. If you don’t decide where you’re headed, you will lead aimlessly. People will follow your direction, but they won’t have...

Categories meeting design/remote work

7 Insights about Conversation, Relationship, and Being Remarkable

We recently co-hosted a Q&A webinar with Paul Axtell, and didn’t know exactly what to expect. He gave such a great presentation – useful tidbits about meetings, great conversations, and life in general – that we decided...

Categories leadership & facilitation/tips & techniques

5 Meetings for Remarkable Leaders

Remarkable leaders understand that how they design and lead meetings determines how well their group functions. Why Leaders Need to Master Meetings  Meetings serve a critical function in the workplace. The meeting’s job is to lead a group from wherever...

Categories leadership & facilitation/meeting design

The Anatomy of Meeting Notes That People Will Use

(Tip: Be sure not to miss the downloadable business meeting notes template at the end of the story) Return Leverage, one of Lucid’s Enterprise clients, found our downloadable meeting notes to be less helpful than they’d hoped. Toby Lucich from Return Leverage asked...

Categories release announcement/tips & techniques

How to Lead a Successful Project Retrospective Meeting (2019 Update)

We do not learn from experience … we learn from reflecting on experience. John Dewey These meetings go by many names – postmortems, retrospectives, after-action reviews, wrap-ups, project “success” meetings. Regardless of what you call them, they...

Categories meeting design/project management

The Power of Gratitude in Meetings

We’ve known Tom Flynn for many years. Over lunch recently, he shared with us this story about a master facilitator he met early in his career who had a powerful influence on shaping the kind of leader...

Categories leadership & facilitation

Accessing the Wisdom of Your Group

Once in a while, a new manager will come to an organization and do something that is both bold and disruptive. First, they will ask the group to set aside their PowerPoint slides and their usual meeting...

Categories meeting design

The Remote Team Meeting Essentials Pack

On the TV show The Profit, Marcus Lemonis teaches that “people, process and product” are the three keys to a successful business. As Chairman and CEO of Camping World and Good Sam Enterprises, he leads close to...

Categories remote work

How to Run an Urgent Problem Solving Meeting

Everything exploded. You’ve got a mess. Now what? In one of the first posts on this blog, our friend and former partner wrote about adapting his emergency response training as a SCUBA instructor to the business setting....

Categories meeting design

Getting Work Done in Meetings: Structures for Success

Leaders get work done through the conversations they hold. Often those conversations are in meetings—particularly when multiple people need to be in the discussion. In spite of all the criticism of time-wasted in meetings, leaders need meetings...

Categories meeting design

The Key to Organizational Discipline

Usually when we think of discipline, it’s deeply personal and not that much fun. One kind of discipline involves punishing others. For example, as a parent, I may discipline my misbehaving child. Another kind of discipline punishes...

Categories leadership & facilitation

Survey Results: What Makes Meetings Worth Attending

In December, we published A Fresh Look at the Number, Effectiveness, and Cost of Meetings in the U.S., which dug into what the available research could tell us about those things. What we found suggested that people...

Categories meeting design

What You Need to Know About Board Meetings

As a young professional, I found The Board intimidating. It really didn’t matter what The Board was a board of – it was always clear that The Board included many Very Important People who made big important...

Categories meeting design

Technology That Makes Meetings Effective

Let’s start with a brief history . . . Dawn of Time: Cavemen gather to plan their hunts. Details are painted on walls of caves. Best practices are non-existent, but the species survives. 1560s: Sir Thomas Smyth...

Categories meeting technology

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