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Brainstorming across borders: How to stimulate creative thinking from afar

Q: A marketing manager tell us: We’re under tremendous pressure to churn out hundreds of deliverables each month. But at the same time we’re asked to come up with some really “out-of-the-box” thinking. Productive brainstorming sessions take time, something we have precious little of. And even if we had the time, our team is far-flung, […]

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Guided Insights helps teams get important work done, faster, from wherever they work. We do this through our strategic advisory, facilitation and training services, with a special focus on helping virtual teams collaborate and communicate to achieve better results. All of our training programs are customized for each client, using real-life scenarios to make learning

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Virtual Meetings

Designing and running virtual  and hybrid meetings that keep people engaged and achieve results is hard work. That’s because many people see virtual meetings as a great chance to get other “more important” work without anyone noticing. Without continual engagement in relevant conversations, participants are likely to tune out, hang back or drift away. If

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Virtual Leadership

Running a successful virtual or hybrid team requires extraordinary skills that many managers have never learned. I work with virtual and hybrid  team leaders to boost the performance of their teams by helping them identify and tackle some of the trickiest challenges associated with leading people they may rarely, if ever see. Through Guided Insights’

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Facilitation Skills Training for Cross-Cultural Conversations

Meeting leaders must carefully consider how cultural differences affect the design and facilitation of every conversation. After all, an approach for encouraging discussion with a quiet participant from one country may backfire in another! That’s why our facilitation skills training courses, whether online or in-person, reflect the different cultures that make up our client organizations.

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Speaking the Truth Not Always Easy in a Virtual World

If I ask you if these pants make me look fat, your face seems to say that I look like a whale, despite your verbal assurance that I look just fine. I really can’t tell if you are trying to spare my feelings or avoid my wrath, or whether I really do look pretty svelte.

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