Why You Should Try a Pre-Mortem Exercise (Before It’s Too Late!)

Why you should try a pre-mortem exercise (before it’s too late) In this post, we will talk about the pre-mortem exercise and how it can help set you up for success. You may have encountered the “lessons learnt log” before. Most of the time, those well-intentioned documents gather dust in forgotten folders, never to be […]

5 Facilitation Fails and Facilitator Tips to Avoid Them

5 Facilitation Fails and Facilitator tips to avoid them At Outcome over Output, we love to learn from failures, especially the ones that make us cringe a little. Here are the 5 favourite facilitation fails we’ve seen (and sometimes committed) over the years, plus some practical facilitator tips to help you avoid falling into the […]

How to Make Meetings More Engaging

72% of Meetings are Ineffective! How to make meetings more engaging In this post we will tackle a very common topic – how to make meetings more engaging. A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of running one of my  favourite training workshops on mastering facilitation skills.  During these sessions, I always ask two […]

Using the Lean Coffee Format to Cultivate Connection and Understanding

Using the Lean Coffee Format to Cultivate Connection and Understanding Who would have imagined that a meeting style, known as the Lean Coffee Format, born in Seattle over a coffee (credit to Jim Benson and Jeremy Lightsmith), would transform discussions across various sectors? The Lean Coffee Format offers a structured but agenda-free way to hold […]