Creating clarity within a group – Ruben Van Der Laan

The discussion heated up. I simply asked all participants, a management team, to take a stance by physically putting on a scale a coloured dot. For this growing organisation I was curious to know what the management wanted: more systemisation of processes on the one hand or more self-organisation and responsibilities on a lower level. […]

49 Ways to Spice Up Your Meetings by Ruben Van Der Laan

Henry Ford would have loved producing our current day meetings the way he produced his cars. His famous ‘any colour – so long as it’s black’ would have marvelously fit the numerous meetings that are being churned out worldwide. A meeting room is a meeting room and a meeting is a meeting. All black, all […]

Aaarrrgggg, those ******* meetings!

You need meetings! You want them to generate ideas, inspire action and flow but in their essence meetings are paradoxical!  In many cases we see, hear and feel that within organizations meetings do not deliver to their expectations. Participants come ill prepared, disengage and hardly follow-up. At best, you have a love-hate relationship with meetings. You […]