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Do Your Meetings Catalyze Progress?

Do Your Meetings Catalyze Progress?

Imagine regularly going to team meetings that seem like a pivot point; meetings where work gets done and, when they’re over, everyone knows exactly what they will do next to make progress. You can have more productive meetings like this by building your agenda around...

Pick the Strategies Last

Pick the Strategies Last

When fixing a problem project, the last thing you want to do is choose the right strategies. Wait, what? Did you read that right? Yes! Of course, I don’t mean that you never want to choose the perfect strategies. I mean that you need to wait and choose them last,...

Fixing Problem Projects

Fixing Problem Projects

If you have ever heard yourself asking this question: “What the (bleep) is going on? Since the kick off on this project, everyone seems to be working in different directions. Didn’t we all agree on what we were going to do?” Well, maybe … and maybe not. If the team...

Succeed Together

Succeed Together

In my series on Facilitating Success, we’ve been looking at what to do when two months after a great strategic planning session, you’ve seen no evidence of progress on the new initiatives. So far, I’ve focused on boosting motivation by making each team’s success...

Make Reporting Success Easy

Make Reporting Success Easy

Here’s the scenario I laid out in Part 1 of Facilitating Success: It’s been two months since a planning session when the executive team enthusiastically agreed on new strategic initiatives, and you’ve seen no evidence of progress. To get things moving, I laid out the...

Facilitating Success on Major Projects

Facilitating Success on Major Projects

Here’s the scenario: Two months ago, you walked out of a great strategic planning session with your team thinking, “That was amazing! I am psyched about what we do and what’s coming next! Everyone is motivated to start working on the new strategic initiatives. We had...