Episodes

  • Why Offsite Meetings Fail and How to Make Yours Work
    Aug 9 2025

    High-stakes meeting facilitator Kristin Arnold shares why offsite meetings fail and how to improve them with strategic meeting facilitation.

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    8 mins
  • 3 Ways to Prioritize Strategic Initiatives
    Aug 8 2025

    High-stakes meeting facilitator Kristin Arnold shares how to prioritize strategic initiatives AND create an interrelationship digraph.

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    7 mins
  • How AI is Transforming Meetings & How to Capture Its Potential
    Aug 6 2025

    With all of the invisible help joining our meetings, are meetings becoming more effective? Or less human?

    Here's how I see AI transforming meetings and a quick tip to explore it's potential with your team.

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    6 mins
  • Meeting Makeover: Turn a Monday Moan Fest Into a Power Session
    Jul 25 2025

    With a few intentional shifts, a ho-hum meeting can become a high-impact ritual your team actually looks forward to.

    Here’s a “before and after” look at one team’s transformation from dreaded meeting to dynamic power session.

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    6 mins
  • 10 Micro-Habits of Teams That Consistently Deliver Results
    Jul 3 2025

    I was talking with a client about "the small stuff" that makes magic happen. Those seemingly inconspicuous rituals, behaviors, and mindsets that, when practiced consistently, drive extraordinary results.

    Here are 10 micro-habits I’ve observed in high-performing teams I’ve worked with.

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    5 mins
  • How to Run an Effective Brainstorming Session
    Jul 2 2025

    Great brainstorming isn’t magic—it’s well-structured messiness. When you design your session like a sandwich (start with clarity, move into freeform ideation, and close with purposeful evaluation), you give your team the space and structure they need to generate and act on truly original ideas.

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    5 mins
  • 7 Questions to Ask Before You Call a Meeting
    Jun 10 2025

    Before you send that next meeting invitation, ask yourself these seven crucial questions to determine whether you really need a meeting. And if that answer is “yes,” how to make it a good meeting.

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    6 mins
  • Overconfidence Clouds Judgment — Plan with a Pre-Mortem
    Jun 7 2025
    Overconfidence feels good. It’s seductive. But unchecked, it can lead us into risky territory, blindsiding us with problems we could have seen coming. Before charging forward with a decision, especially one that feels too easy or unchallenged, try conducting a “pre-mortem.” Instead of examining what did go wrong after the fact, you imagine what could go wrong before it happens. Here’s how to do a Pre-Mortem:
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    6 mins