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Category: Meetings

En bloc – what does it mean?

September 23, 2022
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 |  Business, Managing & Organising Meetings, Meetings

En bloc simply means “as a whole”. It’s a really useful tool for many types of meetings. Here’s how it works and when to use […]

Warning signs you’ve got a thief on your committee or board 

August 31, 2022
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 |  Governance, Managing & Organising Meetings, Meetings

Warning signs you’ve got a thief on your committee or board  First up – context and credibility – why listen to what I’ve got to […]

Characteristics of people who chair a meeting well

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 |  Meetings, Managing & Organising Meetings

Characteristics of people who chair a meeting well Decisive leaders are respected and admired. If a meeting goes round and round without a decision it […]

How informal meetings can benefit from some formal procedures

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 |  Managing & Organising Meetings, Meetings

How informal meetings can benefit from some formal procedures If you’re frustrated because your meetings are too long, too many, and decisions aren’t being made, […]

Are you brave enough to challenge the meeting status quo? 

August 25, 2022
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 |  Managing & Organising Meetings, Meetings

  It takes courage to decline a meeting request  I was speaking with an exasperated client this week about her biggest frustrations. Meetings that go […]

How informal meetings can benefit from some more formal processes

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 |  Meetings, Business, Decisive Leadership, Uncategorized

How informal meetings can benefit from some more formal processes If you’re frustrated because your meetings are too long, too many, and decisions aren’t being […]

sting in the tail

Consensus decision making has a sting in the tail

November 17, 2021
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 |  Meetings, Decisive Leadership, Results Strategies

Caution – Consensus decision making isn’t necessarily the way to go. Recently I worked with a very large organisation which has a corporate policy that […]

misinformation in meetings

Misinformation and Disinformation

October 22, 2021
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 |  Business, Decisive Leadership, Local Government, Meetings

Why the difference between misinformation and disinformation in meetings matters The meaning of misinformation is often merged with that of disinformation, but they are not interchangeable. You […]

Robert's Rules

Should you use Robert’s Rules of Order in Australia?

October 20, 2021
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 |  Meetings

Should you use Robert’s Rules of Order? If you are in the USA – yes. If you are in Australia – no. Robert’s Rules are […]

Do your meetings suffer from Sunflower bias?

October 18, 2021
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 |  Meetings

Sunflower bias and how it works against good decision making. If you ever see a field of sunflowers, you’ll notice that all of the flowers […]

My local government quest attracted media attention

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 |  Local Government, Meetings, Speaking & Presenting

As a result of the intrigue my quest has created, the ABC invited me to attend their local government forum last Wednesday. These are 3 […]

An interesting perspective on time

September 26, 2021
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 |  Business, Decisive Leadership, Managing & Organising Meetings, Meetings, Results Strategies

I’m going to share 2 stories. Both about time. Story 1. I was speaking at a business association and the issue of time management came […]

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Steve reduced his meetings from 150 minutes to 40 minutes

August 27, 2021
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 |  Business, Meetings, Results Strategies

Steve reduced his meetings from 150 minutes to 40 minutes      

The Quest goes on – City of Bayswater

August 26, 2021
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 |  Meetings, Local Government

I’m on a quest to visit every local government council meeting in the Perth metropolitan area. There are 29. On each expedition I will write […]

The Quest heads north – City of Wanneroo

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 |  Meetings, Local Government

I’m on a quest to visit every local government council meeting in the Perth metropolitan area. There are 29. On each expedition I will write […]

The Quest continues – City of Armadale

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I’m on a quest to visit every local government council meeting in the Perth metropolitan area. There are 29. On each expedition I will write […]

The third expedition on my Local Government quest

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I’m on a quest to visit every local government council meeting in the Perth metropolitan area. There are 29. On each expedition I will write […]

The second expedition on my Local Government quest

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I’m on a quest to visit every local government council meeting in the Perth metropolitan area. There are 29. On each expedition I will write […]

The first expedition on my Local Government quest

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 |  Meetings, Local Government

I’m on a quest to visit every local government council meeting in the Perth metropolitan area. There are 29. On each expedition I will write […]

I’m on a quest

July 17, 2021
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 |  Business, Meetings, Results Strategies

My Meetings Quest is attracting media attention. I’m on a quest to visit every Perth metropolitan local government council meeting and report on what I […]

Signs to look for of fraudulent or inappropriate behaviour in organizations

July 14, 2021
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 |  Business, Meetings, Results Strategies

The vast majority of people in organizations, particularly voluntary ones, are reasonable and honest people. But there are some bad apples out there and they […]

chess & chairing meetings similarities

Leading a meeting and playing chess are strategically similar

July 5, 2021
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 |  Business, Decisive Leadership, Meetings

Would you like to lead a meeting as strategically as Beth Harmon plays chess? Beth Harmon skillfully shows us that chess can be ‘almost sexy’. Mind […]

Psychological Safety Net

High performance meetings are always safe

April 30, 2021
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 |  Meetings, Decisive Leadership, Managing & Organising Meetings

The best performing teams have one thing in common – psychological safety. It’s exactly the same in meetings.   In your meetings, how willing are people […]

How we shortened a 2 hour meeting down to 15 minutes and still covered everything.

August 10, 2020
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 |  Managing & Organising Meetings, Meetings, Results Strategies

I had a client who had a requirement to formally meet with the workforce once a week. It could best be described as a cross […]

Halve your meeting frequency & double productivity

May 15, 2020
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 |  Decisive Leadership, Managing & Organising Meetings, Meetings

Here’s an idea to put in your toaster and see what pops up. Halve the frequency of your meetings. Right now. Just try it. If […]

This may explain why things aren’t moving forward

April 27, 2020
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 |  Business, Decisive Leadership, Managing & Organising Meetings, Meetings

Are you and your team “Yes but” people, or “Yes and” people?  Do you naturally tend to say “yes and” or do you naturally say “yes […]

Who is the drummer in your meetings? Who sets the pace?

April 8, 2020
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 |  Decisive Leadership, Managing & Organising Meetings, Meetings, Presence/Charisma

Every meeting has a rhythm, a pace, sometimes called the cadence. Surprisingly, it’s not always the person running the meeting. But it should be. In […]

nepotism in meetings

Is it nepotism if a husband and wife serve together on the same committee?

February 26, 2020
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 |  Managing & Organising Meetings, Meetings, Uncategorized

QUESTION – A vacancy occurred on a committee and a man said his wife would be happy to fill it. The committee was in need […]

Biting the bullet on the people who are deadwood in your organisation

January 15, 2020
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 |  Business, Managing & Organising Meetings, Meetings, Uncategorized

Bite the bullet on people who are deadwood in your organisation Recently I was working with a client and had an interesting conversation with a […]

Use the Traffic Light Principle to improve your meetings

January 3, 2020
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 |  Business, Decisive Leadership, Managing & Organising Meetings, Meetings

The humble traffic light – green, amber, red – is a quick and powerful way to find out what people really think about the meetings […]

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