No matter your skill at leading meetings, there are some occasions when hiring a facilitator is in your best interest. This episode goes over considerations to help you recognize when it’s time to bring in a third-party facilitator and gives you a guide of questions to consider when searching for the right person to lead your meeting.

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EPISODE RESOURCES:
Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions (book)
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (book)
Decision Traps: The Ten Barriers to Decision-Making and How to Overcome Them (book)
MAFN Find-A-Facilitator (database)

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Written by Lauren Green and produced by Caitlin Murray.

Organization leaders and meeting sponsors carry a large influence on the meetings they attend, and how they show up can affect the group as a whole and the success of a session. This episode provides guidance for what leaders should be doing before, during, and after a meeting to help achieve outcomes and harness the wisdom of their team.

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EPISODE RESOURCES:
Season 1: Just-in-Time Meeting Skills (podcast)
MeetingMakers Academy (webpage)
S1E4: Outline Your Meeting (podcast episode)
S2E9: Make It a Meeting, Not a Lecture (podcast episode)
S3E5: Help Your Meetings Work I—Verbal Tools (podcast episode)
Non-Violent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg PhD (*book)

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Written by Lauren Green and produced by Caitlin Murray.

Whether your team needs help remembering information or navigating the complexities of virtual meetings, you can take on a meeting support role to level up the effectiveness of your team’s meeting. In this episode, Lauren breaks down the need for meeting notes and tips for taking them effectively, and guest Heather Martinez discusses the rold of tech host.

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EPISODE RESOURCES:
Understanding Visual Notetaking (video)
Dancing with Markers (website)
Start Your Visual Notetaking Journey (resource)
Let’s Letter Together (website)
Tech Host Academy (online course)
How to E3 Your Online Meetings (video)
Top 5 Vitals for Being a Successful Tech Host (video and blog)

Heather Leavitt Martinez is a practical mix of supporting others and modeling the way. Rooted in Appreciative Inquiry (AI), everything Heather does from training and facilitation to tech hosting is based in AI. She is a visual practitioner by trade, but quickly turned virtual facilitator at the start of the pandemic and brought many along with her. Heather is the director of Tech Host Academy, senior product manager at Kadabra, and is currently working with the Center of Appreciative Inquiry to deliver her work as a visual facilitator and tech host. 

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Written by Lauren Green and produced by Caitlin Murray.