by Dave Bayless | community, facilitation
Strengthening Community Bonds: Why Small-Scale Conversations Matter Small, frequent interactions build trust and belonging, essential for strong communities. Community hosts often overlook these due to scale, resources, or algorithmic focus, weakening bonds and...
by Dave Bayless | facilitation, technology
Is teleconferencing the cure for Zoom fatigue? Teleconferencing might be the better option if a relationship among the participants has already been established and the focus is on the content of the conversation. Accelerated by the pandemic, video conferencing has...
by Dave Bayless | facilitation, podcast, social networks
How Might We Stimulate Broader Participation in Our Conversations? The degree to which status and quality are perceived to be linked drives the likelihood of actively engaging in social networking. Meritocratic cultures probably enhance the coupling of status and...
by Dave Bayless | community, facilitation
Our Predictions as Conversation Starters When we make a prediction, our conversation tends to collapse into a debate about whether the prediction is right or wrong. It’s often better to use a prediction as a trigger for a conversation about the conditions under...
by Dave Bayless | community, facilitation
Our Responsibilities as Meeting Hosts and Participants Too often, business meetings suck. They don’t have to. Meeting hosts can help build trust in the process by being mindful of Purpose, People, and Process. Meeting participants, in turn, have a responsibility...
by Laura Black | facilitation
Mixed Messages Effective meetings have a clear purpose. Agendas and patterns of conversation that send mixed messages—however inadvertently—are likely to undermine the achievement of that purpose. I realized I had been sending a mixed message. A “mixed message,”...
