Best practices for better meetings

March 13, 2012 | article by Ken Thompson in Team Leadership Development (58)

"If we want to do something creative, outside the box, innovative and un-traditional I am doubtful that sitting in a traditional meeting room, having a traditional meeting and following a traditional meeting script is going to move us toward that vision". Jamie Billingham summarises best practices for radically improving meetings.

Death by Meeting
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Jamie's best practice list includes un-meetings, the importance of "unfiltered conflict", Alignment, disarming defensive routines, surfacing Mental Models and the 4-Player Dialogue Model.

To read Musing on Meetings, Team Form and Function

See some of my most popular articles on meetings and decision-making

All you ever learned about meetings is wrong
Four rules for collaborating well in meetings
Stop people making bad commitments and poor estimates
Five tips for a perfect meeting
Conference Calls: Twelve Golden Rules
Brainstorming - 7 Do's and 6 Don'ts
Collective stupidity and the madness of crowds
Delphi collective group intelligence tool: powerful and free
Seven team decision-making methods
The 3 ways great teams make decisions: video clip

About Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson delivers keynote conference speeches, workshop facilitation and in-house consultancy in four key business areas:

Creating High Performing Teams in enterprises including Virtual and Mobile Teams (based on the Bioteams Book)
Establishing effective Collaborative Business Networks enabling companies to co-operate effectively in areas such as sales and product development (based on the book - The Networked Enterprise)
How to use the latest social media technologies including blogging and online communities to promote enterprises, brand, organisation or event
Development of graphical on-line interactive Business Dashboards and What-if Simulators for organisations to support Performance Improvement, Strategy Development and Executive Team Development.

Tags: change management, collaboration, meetings, mental models

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Bioteams Books Reviews

The Starfish and The Spider

October 6, 2007 | article by Ken Thompson in Book Reviews (37)

The Book "The Starfish and The Spider" uses the amazing capabilities of starfish to survive and regrow damaged limbs as a powerful metaphor for leaderless organisations.

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