Meeting Hack: Meeting Room Essentials
When you picture a meeting room, you likely envision a colorless, fluorescent-lit space, a large rectangular table with numerous …
Meeting Hack: How to Avoid Workshop Pitfalls
If you’re organizing a workshop or meeting anytime soon, follow these tips to avoid common workshop pitfalls that waste time…
Yellow Pages Icebreaker: Mergers & Acquisitions
Today we are living in the crux of the “Information Age”, where the Internet is our go-to resource for limitless knowledge. While the Internet is indeed an unparalleled tool, having a printed volume of systematized information is not obsolete.
Into the Matrix Icebreaker
Just like the first weeks in a new project team, where everyone is adapting to a new environment, without their core group of friends, a 3-day meeting or workshop full of unfamiliar faces may host its own level of awkward confrontations.
What is Scrum?
Are you familiar with Rugby? You don’t have to be a player or an avid follower of the game to have seen a scrummage or a Rugby scrum. In fact, the word, ‘scrum’, is not just a Rugby term anymore.
Team Building Icebreaker: Finding Three Things in Common
No matter how bold or vast your differences may be with another person, all humans share some common denominators that go beyond gender, race, nationality, and socioeconomic status.
Top Three Icebreaker: Guessing the Priorities
Are you a project manager who’s in the midst of solving a complex problem? Building a list of ideas and/or solutions might seem like an easy win, but the tricky part is in narrowing down and highlighting a small set of priorities to focus on. Let’s say, a Top 3.
6 Keys to a Great Workshop
Are you launching a new product or at the start of an Agile Transformation? Perhaps you are in the middle of a Digital Transformation or at the end of an acquisition deal that brings the challenges of merging organizations together?
Family Vacation Icebreaker: Compromising Customer Needs, Creating the Ideal
If you come from a big family, it’s likely you’ve experienced the toils of planning a vacation that suits everyone’s needs and/or desires…naturally, planning a trip [of any size] depends on numerous elements.
Secret Service Icebreaker: Cracking Your Code Name Alter Ego
While plenty of alternative “names” exist for presidents and other prominent figures in politics, in the US, these high-profile men and women are actually required to have a code name, used in lieu of their birth name by the Secret Service.
