How to Chair Creative Meetings: Tools and Techniques
Sometimes you need your meeting to deliver a creative idea or solution to a problem. And there’s an art to chairing creative meetings.
So, in this video, I’ll suggest my favorite tools for facilitating creative meetings. These will help you grow your confidence as a meeting facilitator, and generate more and better ideas.
Watching this Video is worth 2 Management Courses CPD Points*.
(See below for more details)
This video is part of course module number 2.3.2
Program 2: The Manager as Communicator
Course 3: Meetings
Section 2: Chairing Meetings
Primary videos that precede this video include:
– Planning Your Meeting https://youtu.be/u0hqoWIecNU
– Meetings as Conversations https://youtu.be/42kngpo0MPE
– Meeting Discipline https://youtu.be/NWLKP4Lk3BA
– Hosting the Meeting https://youtu.be/MyyoRz4fKP8
– Housekeeping https://youtu.be/U3PfBOBeqBY
– Managing the Meeting https://youtu.be/cRap-SJ8tpQ
– How to Deal with Challenging Participants https://youtu.be/BX6xoc3qg0Y
– What to Do When Your Meeting Goes Wrong https://youtu.be/PuikZ7Z9hds
Primary videos that follow this video include:
– How to Close Your Meeting https://youtu.be/S0V2-NsLFSs
– Meeting Minutes and Follow-up https://youtu.be/97j9Nq8UuGk
– How to Run a Facilitated Meeting https://youtu.be/HyTaF6WQHZI
– Four Special Meeting Types and How to Run Them https://youtu.be/w_Ulehs8DEw
LESSON NOTES
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The tools I discuss in this lesson, for chairing a creative meeting are:
– Brainstorming
– Brainwriting
– Frameworks/checklists (like PESTLE, SWOT, 5W+H)*
– Clustering – Affinity diagrams (post-it brainwriting)
– Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats (link to the book, below)
– Word or Picture association
* PESTLE, SWOT, 5W+H
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PESTLE: Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, Environmental
SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
5W+H: Why, What, Where, When, Who, How
RECOMMENDED EXERCISE
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1. Spend some time reviewing this video and your notes. Make a cheat-sheet of tools you can use for your meetings and paste it into your meeting notebook – or whatever you take to your meetings. (2 MC CPD Points)
2. Reflect on meetings where you have seen creative thinking work well. And also others where it has not worked. What creative meeting techniques have you seen that you can adopt? What would have been helpful tools for the meetings that did not work? (2 MC CPD Points)
3. At your next two meetings, try t improve the quality of the thinking by deploying one of these methods in each. After the meeting, reflect on what happened and how effective those strategies were. (2×2 MC CPD Points)
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RECOMMENDED READING
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– Running Meetings (HBR) https://geni.us/uTtzzH
– Meetings Suck https://geni.us/PnqAf
– Bad Meetings Happen to Good People https://geni.us/ehWHWW
– Six Thinking Hats https://geni.us/d8uq3
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