Changing your work environment can change the way you approach strategic questions.

One of the most important jobs you have when running a meeting is to keep the group on track towards the meeting’s intended outcomes.

If you're working on being a better human and leader, my recommendation is to share your intentions with your colleagues and team members. Don’t let this be a covert mission.

Many leaders find running meetings to be uncomfortable especially when they are trying to be collaborative and inclusive.

Vocal Signposting is essential for meeting facilitation.

Inclusion is simply the invitation to join.

Accountability comes through trust and systems. Three ways to hold your teams accountable.

Your online presence can either distract from your message or add to it. Upgrade your set up with these tips.

"Let's just have an open discussion!" This is a well-intentioned statement that we hear a lot in teams.

There are a couple ways it could go wrong, though.

Let’s start with this: what do we even mean by 'open'? The intent of calling an open discussion “open” is to encourage participants to share openly. But it also tends to refer to the process, or way the forum is conducted, like 'open mike,' and there’s rarely full openness in what is shared.

At any point in your meeting, are the participants in the meeting clear on the “who, what, where, when, why and how” of the meeting? If you can cover these, your meeting will be much more inclusive and much more likely to succeed. Let's go through each.