Articles & Guides

• Virtual Meetings
• Global Teams
• Project Leadership
• Communications Excellence

Virtual Meetings

• 77 Tips for Planning and Running Exceptional Virtual Meetings
  Tips booklet that summarizes guidelines for planning and running remote meetings
• Practical Guidelines for Brainstorming Across Borders
  

  Guidelines for planning and running highly productive virtual brainstorming sessions.

• Guidelines for great asynch meetings
  

  Tips for ensuring the best possible output in the shortest time

• Evaluating options: Remote or face to face?
  Checklist to assess viability of remote meetings
• Mapping Technology to Meeting Objectives
  

  Matrix that links technology to meeting objectives

• When Meeting Face-to-Face is no Longer an Option
  White paper that maps meeting alternatives to business objectives
• Best ice-breakers for remote meetings
  

  Information about managing successful remote meetings

• Successful collaboration between remote and face-to-face participants
  
• Getting the best return on meeting time investment
  

  Article in Mass High Tech about using blended facilitation for best ROI

Global Teams

• Collaborating Across Cultures: Part I
  White paper: Acknowledging Differences as First Step
• Collaborating Across Cultures: Part II
  

  White paper: Acknowledging and addressing sources of frustration

• Collaborating Across Cultures: Part III
  

  White paper: Creating a communications plan that fosters cross-cultural collaboration

• Navigating cultural differences when working remotely
  

Project Leadership

• Getting the Soft Stuff Right is Key to Enterprise-wide Migrations
  White paper: How open two-way communications can accelerate projects and lower costs
• Facilitating Your Way to Project Success
  

  White paper: How facilitated workshops can overcome the most typical project time-wasters

• Teamwork Puts a Troubled Team Back on Track
  

  Tackling tough issues with facilitated conversations

Communications Excellence

• Making Decisions That Stick
  

  White paper: Guidelines for successful decision making

• Communicating in Times of Change
  

  White paper: How clear, candid, relevant communications help lower resistance to change

• Guidelines for Successfully Navigating Your Way Through Conflict
  

  Checklist for anticipating, addressing and resolving conflict in meetings

• 16 Tips for Effective Email
  

  Guidelines for making email work for you

“I keep your tips booklet posted right next to me on my desk and use it frequently when I'm planning meetings. This booklet is my most valuable meeting tool because, no matter what a meeting is about, following those tips ensures a successfully run meeting.

Thanks for the great tool!”