- Invite new people to join in. It's important to tap the creativity and diversity of people in your company.
- Replace the agenda with questions. Leave behind those notes and PowerPoint slides. Come ready to discuss questions that don't have easy, right/wrong, yes/no answers, and that ask for positive rather than negative or critical responses.
- Play around with the room. Instead of seating everyone around a conference table, ask people to work in clusters. Or try setting up a bazaar. Put representative objects, maps or graphics on various tables or on the wall and ask people to walk around and react to each of them.
- Capture the conversation on a white board. As people come up with ideas, link them using spider diagramming or clustering. (Note - - see Gabriele Rico's Writing the Natural Way.)
Monday, February 21, 2011
A Conversation is Democratic
The next time you are planning a meeting, try the following tips:
Labels:
Management
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.