Facilitate Proceedings » Group decision support http://facilitate.com/blog Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:19:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 So, you want to solve problems and generate quality ideas in your meeting? http://facilitate.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/so-you-want-to-solve-problems-and-generate-quality-ideas-in-your-meeting/ http://facilitate.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/so-you-want-to-solve-problems-and-generate-quality-ideas-in-your-meeting/#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:29:37 +0000 Donna McAlister Kizzier http://facilitate.com/blog/?p=1398 Face to face? Teleconferencing? Audio and video conferencing? Text messaging? Asynchronous or synchronous? With or without collaborative systems? Does it make a difference which meeting tools you select or the time frame you select? This month’s Research Brief addresses these questions, with a clear winner emerging. As a reminder, each Research Brief refers readers to the full published article. Click on the link to read today’s full Research Brief. These Briefs are intended to communicate the results of my already published research to practitioners in the field. I appreciate and encourage your feedback; you are the best qualified to judge the relevant application of my research in the workplace. ]]> If solving problems or generating high quality ideas are among your primary meeting goals, which of the many meeting venues available to facilitators should you select? Face to face? Teleconferencing? Audio and video conferencing? Text messaging? Asynchronous or synchronous? With or without collaborative systems? Does it make a difference which meeting tools you select or the time frame you select? This month’s Research Brief addresses these questions, with a clear winner emerging.

As a reminder, each Research Brief refers readers to the full published article. Click on the link to read today’s full Research Brief. These Briefs are intended to communicate the results of my already published research to practitioners in the field. I appreciate and encourage your feedback; you are the best qualified to judge the relevant application of my research in the workplace.

]]> http://facilitate.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/so-you-want-to-solve-problems-and-generate-quality-ideas-in-your-meeting/feed/ 0 Develop Your Team’s Cultural Literacy http://facilitate.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/developing-team-cultural-literacy/ http://facilitate.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/developing-team-cultural-literacy/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:37:35 +0000 Nancy Settle-Murphy http://facilitate.com/blog/?p=835 “Although our corporate HQ is here in the U.S., our company is run by teams of people located all over the world. Perhaps because many have limited experience working regularly with people of other cultures, most of the Americans—who are top performers here in the U.S.—seem to be struggling. I’ve been asked to coach a group of American managers to become more effective global collaborators. Any advice?” In this post, I’ll share some advice for helping your team develop cultural literacy. Later, I’ll talk about how this translates into good behavior in team communications. ]]> A client of mine, a manager of organizational effectiveness for a global services firm, recently posed this question: “Although our corporate HQ is here in the U.S., our company is run by teams of people located all over the world. Perhaps because many have limited experience working regularly with people of other cultures, most of the Americans—who are top performers here in the U.S.—seem to be struggling. I’ve been asked to coach a group of American managers to become more effective global collaborators. Any advice?”

In this post, I’ll share some advice for helping your team develop cultural literacy. Later, I’ll talk about how this translates into good behavior in team communications.

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