Videos

100 Good Group Videos

A Complete Listener

A Culture of Listening

A problem defined is half-solved

About my Tips, Videos, and Handouts

Action precedes understanding

Affirm to get along

Agendas should have times

Agendas with end times are efficient

Align purpose, technique, attitude

Alignment between words and deeds builds trust

All in – Two votes

Are you listening? Four levels of proof

Attribution Bias

Before and After

Bring you

Business Cards Rock!

Categorical Judgment

Chairs in a circle

Cheap fiction or great literature?

Choices are never perfect, choose anyway

Citizen Democracy

Come to the Meeting!

Community Advisory Panels Build Community Bridges

Connect with a higher purpose

Connect with your Mission

Credit the Group from the Field

Disability friendly meeting technology

Do What’s Light

Doin’ Good

Don’t leave me hanging! – Advice for e-communication

Double-check your decision

Empathy and Respect

Encourage volunteerism

Every Problem Has At Least Two Solutions

Everyone’s job is no one’s job

Face-to-face is still the best

Fast or Good?

Feedback is a gift

Femaleadership – Benefits of Women in Leadership

Find what makes you great

Gender respect: yes, please

Go big or go home? Maybe not.

Good deeds and Mr. Goodbars

Good Group Tips in the Jury Room

Good Meeting Guidelines

Google Docs for Group Reports

Great gifts are not always new

Ground Rules for Conflict Resolution

Here’s What I Heard

High School Facilitator

How I Wrote Together We Decide, with Discussion

How to build community – Food!

How to call on people

How to decide what you don’t decide

How to Determine Value

How to facilitate meetings – Four Essential Functions

How to find peace – Let go of the outcome

How to Form a Committee – 5 Essentials

How to get a group to cut down a list

How to handle rule-breaking

How to handle the person who talks too much – Validate and hear from others

How to handle when someone walks out

How to have an effective meeting – the basics

How to have movement in your meeting

How to help your meeting – Responsibility for Attitude

How to make decisions in small groups – Mini-Multi-Vote

How to move on

How to NOT be invisible in meetings

How to prevent conflict – Build Shared Understanding

How to show the big picture – Use a Handout

How to Untangle a Conflict

How to Use Microphones for Group Interaction

I am the Solution

I didn’t do anything wrong

If you could have a superpower

If your glass is half empty, get a smaller glass

Info from the Front Lines

Inspired to Act

Interest-Based Bargaining: A Creative Approach to Collective Bargaining

Intergenerational Communications – How to talk about it

Is it okay to shut someone down?

Is your idea worthy of group time?

It’s the planning, not the plan

Jokes and Sarcasm Reveal Character and Culture

Keep your strategic plan off the shelf

Key ingredients for collaboration (it’s way more than IT)

Leadership is inspiring, not requiring

Learn a lot fast in the room

Learn about somebody different

Let a small group resolve it

Let people change plans

Light of God in Every Person

Listen to your enemies

Long term collaboration needs special effort

Make deposits before withdrawals

Make Shift Coffee House

Make the most of your pre-meeting

Many presentations quick? How to do that!

Many Stories, Many Truths

Measuring What’s Important to Maine: A 25-year Look Back

Meeting Guidelines Written

Meeting introductions

Meeting Room First Impressions Matter

Meeting Room Set Up Demonstration Video

Meeting Room Set Up Time-Lapse Video

Men, Make Room

Most Conflict is Because of Misunderstanding

Move in your meetings

Music!

No one’s writing anything down!

Nonprofit Collaboration

Pay it Forward

Peace and profit come from good group decisions

People are complicated and colorful

Providing structure provides fairness

Public input in many ways

Ready for Good from Anywhere

Recalculating

Resonate

Robert’s Rules of Order – Key Principles Explained

Role of the Chair Person

Round Robin

Say it with a sign

Say your third thought

Seven Secrets for Successful Meetings

Should facilitators make suggestions?

Show What You Think

Silence

Six Simple Ground Rules for a Civil Conversation

Someone Neutral in Charge of the Process

Strong Decisions Vs. Weak Decisions

Table discussion guides

Take breaks to make more of your meeting

Tasks and Relationships

Teacher Appreciation

That’s the way it looks from here

The best arguments

The Best I Can Do Is Pray

The Potato Salad Solution

The Right to Understand

The seduction of urgency

Three Ways to Keep Your Plan Alive

Three Ways to Shred Rapport

Tips for Running Effective Meetings

Transparent Facilitation

Two Conditions for Conflict Resolution

Understanding and Trust: Both Required

Understanding is always partial

Unique Room Set Up

Use the Screen for Reflecting

Want creativity? Make room.

Welcome new members

What is a Good Group Decision?

What is a vision statement?

What we think we know is dangerous

When someone throws a brick at you

When to unpack conflict as a group

When you speak from personal experience

Whole Picture in Brief

Why 16-year-olds should vote

Win with grace

Write stuff down

You can’t uncommunicate