How to facilitate an effective meeting with Ava Butler

Guest

Ava Butler: Organizational Development Consultant, Coach, and Author of Mission Critical Meetings: 81 Practical Facilitation Techniques

Inclusion Card: Parking Lot

Summary

Noel and Ashley are joined by Ava Butler, author of Mission Critical Meetings: 81 Practical Facilitation Techniques to talk about the Parking Lot card in the Inclusion Deck. Using this card stores an idea for later and tells everybody that the discussion is important but off-topic, and we can come back to it later. Ava explains how having a parking lot helps meetings stay on topic -- assuming you've set a topic in the first place. Ava also shares her worst and best meeting stories.

Notes

01:44 - The Genesis of the Parking Lot Technique

03:17 - Judging Whether Things Should Go Into the Parking Lot

05:13 - Laying Meeting Ground Rules Re: the Parking Lot

06:34 - Using the Parking Lot

09:08 - Building For Inclusion

11:01 - Running Remote Meetings

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12:52 - Bad Meetings: When You’re Not Supposed To Be There!

14:10 - Best Meetings: Breakthrough Thinking