I share my night time routine in this post. I have two metrics by which I measure my health…

Depending on the time you have for the meeting, you can either do a shorter or a longer ice breaker. Ice breakers can a have a few purposes. This posts covers both the purposes and a few fun icebreakers you can use in your next important meeting.

Today I dive into why we meet. I have a rather controversial hypothesis. I give lots of examples of why I think it’s true in this post.

Recently I was sitting on zoom… and I got the most urgent need to know if I got my water bill. I opened my email and found nothing! I felt so sad. Why hadn’t any bills come in? This desire to get a bill was a sign that I was on a boring meeting. In this post I’ll share some signs that you are a in a boring meeting, and I would say boring = bad meeting.

How to move a meeting forward that you don’t run. You’ve been there a few times a day, you are in a meeting that isn’t moving forward but you aren’t the facilitator. You might feel frustrated. You might even feel angry. But you don’t have to be helpless. There are things you can do with grace to move a meeting forward.

If you truly want to improve your meetings you need to get feedback. Select the right person to give you feedback on your meetings. Ask a trusted coworker who was in your meeting. Its best to give them a format so that they don’t just respond with a useless message like, “It was good. Thanks.” This post gives a helpful format for gathering feedback.

After a meeting you should follow up on action items. The obvious action after a meeting for you as facilitator is to follow up with anyone who took an action item. There are some issues you might run into plus mental and emotional blocks that sometimes happen. Here is some advice on how to manage each of these situations.

I am giving you a self reflection question to use either at the end of a day or week. Taking the time to self reflect is usually where you will get the biggest boosts to your productivity and happiness. Use these questions to help become a better participant and meeting facilitator.

Today I share my morning ritual which helps me be mentally present for a big day. I hope you enjoy the bio-hacking tools that I’ve tested and refined. This is all based on science!

Ever have a meeting go out of control with a runaway conversation? In this post I describe techniques that work to keep your meeting on track. The question becomes, do you have the courage to use them?

In the final stages of the meeting you need to tie up all the loose ends just like all good movie directors do. Unless it is a European movies where it just ends and you’re like, “What happened???” For meetings those unsatisfying European movie style endings won’t cut it. You need to finish all the storylines and tie up all the character arcs in the last few parts of your meeting.

We saw in Part 1 of sections of the meeting, that the facilitator is like a director of a movie in setting the tone, ensuring that the participants don’t get lost or worst angry! We continue reviewing the sections of the meeting in this post. In part 3 we will finish describing the sections of the meeting.

Meetings have sections just like movies have sections. When we sit down to watch a movie we expect to be taken on a journey. A productive meeting must also follows a structure that keeps the participants on board and focused. In this post I will start to give the meeting structure elements.

Creating an agenda is key to running a productive meeting. This blog post reviews the parts of the agenda that you need to include.

All meetings should have meeting roles which ensure that meeting is productive. Often these meeting roles are forgotten or maybe never even heard of. This is why most meetings suck so much. If you want your meeting to be good, you should review these meeting roles and ensure that all of these roles are filled.

Selecting the wrong type for the situation can be a disaster. How many times have you seen engineers try to solve a problem inside a staff meeting or daily stand up? It’s the wrong time for that type event. Selecting the wrong type of meeting will waste your attendees time and make it less likely they will show up to your next meeting. It might even be a career ending move.

Meetings are the most important tool we have to work with other humans. I will lay out all the tools you need to know to run amazing productive meetings. This post is the introduction.

It is time to schedule “me time” like we schedule work time.

SaaS profitability is so hard. This article talks about the three times you need to validate that your SaaS will be profitable.

Moving to the cloud isn’t right for everyone. This article explores the things to think about.