Three Questions To Avoid in Meetings: Part II
Why asking meeting participants “Does everyone understand this?” fails to illuminate the understanding they are making.
Three Questions to Avoid When Leading a Meeting: Part I
What are the 3 most commonly asked meeting questions you might want to avoid? Learn small tips that make large differences in getting the input you seek as a facilitator or leader.
Brainwriting
Brainwriting is a powerful tool that mitigates a group’s tendency to repeat what others have stated (known as groupthink) and lessens the negative effects of certain cognitive and motivational biases that can be detrimental to team effectiveness and decision quality.
Leading Teams to Better Choices
Join this unique and highly-praised workshop–designed and led by an instructor with more than 30 years of experience in leading teams across multiple industries–to improve your skill in leveraging the potential of your team to improve must-succeed meeting outcomes. Topics include how to mitigate social influences and biases, effectively frame problems, navigate the messy decision, deal with difficult behaviors, create alignment when faced with multiple objectives, and ask the better questions to improve team engagement and foster deeper thinking.
Ask THIS Instead: Typical Management Questions to Avoid and Why
It’s a skill that everyone recognizes leaders need but it is one that is rarely taught. Rooted in the instructor’s extensive research and experience of asking better questions, we teach you how to ask the better question. Whether you are wanting to improve your stakeholder interviews, lead better strategy or business planning discussions, enrich your 1:1 direct report meetings, or enhance the rigor of your decision-making meetings, this application-focused workshop will improve your fluency in the language of questioning.
Designing and Leading Effective Decision Board Sessions
This workshop teaches leaders and facilitators of decision boards how to design and foster balanced discussions that answer the questions critical to making quality decisions. LIVE WEBINAR (4 hours)
Question-Storming
Learn why Brainstorming has minimal success in helping us break out of our boxes and how using question-storming assists in uncovering the underlying assumptions that keep us locked into the old way of doing things.
Facilitating Strategic Planning Workshops
This 1-day workshop teaches seasoned facilitators how to design and lead strategic planning workshops that bring tangible value to the organization.
Customized Workshops
Looking for a customized workshop to fit your needs? Wanting to create a blend of the topics covered above?
What’s Wrong With Using The Weighted Criteria Method
We are always making decisions., whether it’s which of the 31 flavors of ice cream to scoop or how to use millions in a capital allocation project. Is the Weighted Criteria Method the answer? Or are there better questions to ask?