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Using Ground Rules to Improve Engagement and Run Excellent Team Meetings

You get what you tolerate. I’ve heard this adage many times when complaining about my dog’s behavior, and occasionally regarding my children too. The person sharing that wisdom is telling me that my dog’s and my children’s...

Categories tips & techniques

How to Create a Decision Matrix with Your Team (and why you need one!)

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...

Categories decision making/meeting design

How We Created an Open API (and Added 1,000 New Integrations with Zapier)

  Originally Published: July 16, 2016 when Zapier had 500+ Applications! We began planning our public API implementation in late 2015. We had numerous requests for full Read/Write API access to the data model and were responding...

Categories meeting technology/release announcement

What Makes a Meeting Worth Attending? (And How to Fix Yours)

When asked what they want most from the meetings they attend, people ask for clarity. We asked this question at the start of our most recent meeting survey– “What do you feel makes a meeting worth attending...

Categories Uncategorized

The Latte and Learn Community of Practice Meeting (Fast, Easy, Useful)

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...

Categories meeting design

Use These 5 Meeting Types to Improve Your Communication with Freelancers

As your business grows, you have two routes you can take when it comes to staffing: you can hire employees or you can work with freelancers. Many businesses are realizing the benefits of hiring remote employees and...

Categories remote work/tips & techniques

A Periodic Table of Meetings (with Free Download)

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...

Categories behind the scenes/meeting design

How Remote Meetings Can be More Productive For Developers and Designers

As more and more teams are collaborating remotely, having effective meetings between various stakeholders is key to successful projects. Developers and designers are two core stakeholders in this process. Collaboration between them and the issues surrounding how...

Categories remote work/tips & techniques

The 16 Types of Business Meetings (and Why They Matter)

There is SO MUCH advice out there about how to run meetings, and most of it is just useless. It’s not that the advice is wrong, per se. It’s just not specific enough. Contents Introduction Background: The...

Categories meeting design

The 4 Meeting Agendas that Drive Strategic Execution (Plus Guidebooks for Each)

Contents Introduction The Dual Cadence of Leadership Meetings The Leadership Team Meeting Agenda Templates The Operational Management MeetingsDriving Day-to-Day Execution The Daily Huddle The Weekly Leadership Team Meeting The Strategic Management MeetingsDriving the Correct Course of Action...

Categories leadership & facilitation/strategy

The Meeting Performance Maturity Model (and How to Measure Yours)

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...

Categories meeting design

Value Stream Mapping for Knowledge Work and Services

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...

Categories meeting design

The Leader’s Guide for Making Decisions in Meetings

I used to believe that everything was a choice. Whether I ate healthy food or not: a choice. Whether I obsessed over past slights or whether I forgave and moved on: a choice. I believed every action...

Categories decision making/leadership & facilitation/meeting design

Case Study: Collaboration Superpowers Uses Lucid Meetings to Automate Workshop Agendas and Keep Participants Engaged

Lisette Sutherland runs Collaboration Superpowers, a workshop facilitation business, from her remote office in the Netherlands. Professional facilitators from all over the world license her materials to teach her Work Together Anywhere Workshop, both online and in...

Categories case studies

Coping with travel restrictions: When meeting face-to-face matters (and what to do when you can’t)

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...

Categories leadership & facilitation/meeting design

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