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Helping you to think – MP3 download on 'Think laterally about involving others' |
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How many people do you usually involve when making a difference? Expand your thinking with Thinking Engineer Rob Smith, as he explains why involving others can be the most lateral thinking element of Solution Focused Thinking.
Taken from the wide range of content available, listen now to the audio accompanying this video clip from the gomadthinking.tv content entitled 'Think laterally about involving others'.
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Helping others to think – MP3 download – 'Deal with hindering thoughts' |
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Imagine having a range of examples of real life coaching sessions to listen to and watch to help you develop your coaching skills. gomadthinking.tv features short extracts of real life coaching sessions demonstrating a variety of techniques for any coach to use to help someone with their thinking. In this audio extract Go MAD developer Andy Gilbert helps Sang Townsley progress her health and fitness goal by creating more helpful thinking patterns.
Listen now to this audio extract on how to 'Deal with hindering thoughts'.
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Helping teams to think – 'How to run a great meeting' |
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Have you ever wanted some help to think something through but no one has the time to give you? gomadthinking.tv features an ever-growing number of day-to-day applications, which act as a self-managed, practical resource to use in real time to encourage enhanced thinking about issues of the moment. To see the range of day to day applications on offer go to gomadthinking.tv
One of the areas we help teams with their thinking about is how to increase the effectiveness of their meetings. Taken from the day-to-day application range, this text activity is designed to help clarify thinking about running meetings.
Run a great meeting – 7 Top Tips
1. Think clearly about your role
Consider in advance of the meeting whether you will be a facilitator who is solely concerned with the process i.e. achieving the goals through gaining the input of others, or whether you will also contribute content to the meeting. You might need to make it obvious to other participants that your ideas are ‘only ideas', or perhaps they are not! Is your role to achieve consensus or to make the final decision?
2. Have a role model
Ensure that you have an appropriate role model at the meeting – whether that is yourself or someone who is displaying the qualities that are necessary at the meeting. This may be someone who will contribute lots of ideas, has a positive attitude or has the required knowledge for that meeting and is willing to share it with the group.
3. Use personal examples
Use personal examples, where possible, to illustrate specific points. This will bring to life the content for those in the meeting. These should be things that have happened to you or others that give emphasis and clarity to the agenda item.
4. Nurture and grow creativity
Use creative thinking techniques to stimulate possibilities:
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Use out of the ordinary objects to guide or make the meetings memorable i.e. bells, juggling balls, things that inspire you, pictures, toys. |
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Display relevant quotes to inspire and enthuse. There are many sources of quotes, including books and the internet. |
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Music can be a great way to liven up or quieten down the atmosphere – depending on your choice of music! If you want to invigorate the group put on a lively piece of music; if you want to promote quiet thinking time put on a piece of soft classical music. |
5. Focus on what you want
Concentrate on what you do want to achieve rather than what you don't want. For example, “We will finish this meeting at 12 o'clock,” rather than, “We will not run over the allotted time for this meeting”. You will get what you focus on, so focus on the positive!
6. Speak positively
Use positive language such as, 'I can', 'I will', 'certainly', 'great' or even 'brilliant' and 'excellent' in response to input from participants. Avoid using the word 'try'. When someone tells you that they will try and do something, what does it really mean? They probably won't do it!
7. Think win:win
This means not only should you be looking for a result that meets your needs but also understand and look for a result that will meet the needs of others involved.
"A spoonful of humour makes the message go down easier." Frank Leahy
Run a great meeting – 10 questions to help you think
When answering the following 10 questions it will be more practical if you focus on a specific meeting you are due to run.
• What is the purpose of this meeting?
• What is the reason that I have been asked to facilitate this meeting?
• Who might I need to involve in this meeting and for what reasons?
• Who might be a good role model to involve in this meeting?
• What do I want to achieve by the end of this meeting?
• What might I need to take into account in preparing for the meeting?
• How could I encourage the participants to be involved in the meeting?
• How might I encourage ideas and contributions?
• What challenges might I face in this meeting and how could I possibly overcome them?
• How will I know that this has been a successful meeting?
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Helping organisations to think – download
'Solution Focused Thinking for leaders' |
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You may be familiar with how the Go MAD Thinking System can be effective for personal use but do you understand how it can be applied to organisational development? Andy Gilbert explains how. Text transcripts accompany video and audio topics on gomadthinking.tv. This download is the text transcript from the video Solution Focused Thinking for leaders.
Download your copy of 'Solution Focused Thinking for leaders'
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