While the tendency is to make a meeting all about the team's business, I strongly suggest a fun icebreaker to kick off the meeting. One of my favorite virtual icebreakers is the "Show & Tell" Activity.
High-stakes meeting facilitator Kristin Arnold provides ways to intervene gracefully with disruptive team members.
Ensure that each of your team members are working in their sweet spot by using the Working Genius language and framework.
High-stakes meeting facilitator Kristin Arnold shares a number of tell-tale signs it is time for your team to disband.
High-stakes meeting facilitator Kristin Arnold shares three common reasons teams, struggle to stay together, stay productive, and meet their goals.
High-stakes meeting facilitator Kristin Arnold shares a number of strategies to facilitate effective hybrid meetings, virtual meetings, and face-to-face meetings.
Strategic moments are those key times when the group is faced with a variety of possible ways to proceed – including staying the course! By choosing a new direction, the team is making a commitment that is not easily reversed. Here is how meeting facilitators can spot strategic moments, and facilitate strategic moments.
High-stakes meeting facilitator Kristin Arnold shares how team members can create their own custom remote work plan.
High-stakes meeting facilitator Kristin Arnold shares when it is appropriate to form a team and when it is inappropriate to form a team.
High-stakes meeting facilitator Kristin Arnold shares a meeting strategy to engage team members and fuel conversation in a healthy and safe way.
High-stakes meeting facilitator Kristin Arnold shares a number of ways team members and team leaders can address disruptive team member behaviors.
High-stakes meeting facilitator Kristin Arnold shares how team leaders can help their team re-acclimate to in-person work environments.
Shifting a workplace culture takes time, energy, and passion. More importantly, it requires intentionality. Your organization HAS a culture...whether it has been deliberately created and cultivated is a different matter altogether. Be deliberate in using these five levers to create the organizational culture you know is needed to be successful now and in the future.
What about the person who willingly doesn't pull their fair share of the load? What happens to the team dynamic when there is a freeloader on the team?
In a world that appears to be more and more fractured, this comment from Zac Hanson gave me hope for teams and teamwork. That there IS common ground to be had. That diverse people can agree on something they like.
High-stakes meeting facilitator Kristin Arnold shares a number of ground rules teams can enforce to ensure great group discussions during Zoom meetings and virtual meetings.
High-stakes meeting facilitator Kristin Arnold shares a meeting facilitation strategy to keep track of participation from Zoom meeting participants.
High-stakes meeting facilitator Kristin Arnold shares a strategic thinking tip to help leaders and their teams engage in strategic planning conversations.
High-stakes meeting facilitator and professional panel moderator Kristin Arnold shares how team leaders can re-engage their team members to feel connected and heard in the virtual or hybrid workplace.
High-stakes meeting facilitator Kristin Arnold shares how meeting facilitators and moderators can introduce a fun and engaging activity to virtual meetings, webinars, and panel discussions.
High-stakes meeting facilitator Kristin Arnold and Shari Bricks, CEO of Bond Association and Event Management, share how to incorporate exciting and engaging "experience boxes" into your next virtual meeting.
High-stakes meeting facilitator Kristin Arnold shares how you can evaluate your own virtual team skills and improve your own teamwork.
High-stakes meeting facilitator Kristin Arnold shares how team leaders can identify, sort out, and address team problems.
High-stakes meeting facilitator Kristin Arnold shares a number of ways that team leaders can lead their teams to be more engaged in the virtual and hybrid workplace environment.