Author Archives: marcusdegerman

I’m finishing the second week of writing on my book with more thoughts on prioritization. The plan is to publish the book on November 26th, and it still feels possible: “I love to get a group to prioritize their work because it brings out all the right conflicts. Suddenly everyone can not get what theyContinue reading “Prioritization”

I have written a lot of text tonight, but I have been jumping around in different parts of the text, and mostly written a sentence or paragraph here and there. I am not sure what to share today so you will just get this paragraph that I think is very important when prioritizing your ideas:Continue reading “Subjective prioritization”

We all know we have a limited short-term memory, and studies from Miller (1956)[1] gave an estimate to 7 +- 2 and later research gave a lower number of 4+-1 (Cowan 2001)[2]. Despite this we still have meeting after meeting where we sit around a table and talk for hours on end, and expect usContinue reading “Some more thoughts on why it is important with visualizations”

I will think a bit more about the collaboration chapter before writing it. I need to find a way to make it clear and not just write all the ideas I have. Instead I focused on the three principles I try to use during the workshops and meetings I facilitate: When everyone understands the goalContinue reading “Three principles and three possibilities”

Continuing to set up the framework for the book today. I realise when I’m writing that I will probably need more specific examples along the way but those will have to come later. The text for today is about the importance of deciding on what you want to bring from the meeting. Outputs The goalContinue reading “Outputs from a meeting”

Today I spent some time writing about how to set a good goal for a meeting. I hope you like it: This morning I went to a meeting with no subject and no other information. In many cases people take the time to write a headline but even if they make perfect sense to youContinue reading “Setting a goal for a meeting”

Today I’m writing on how to start a meeting and help people focus. Tomorrow I will go deeper with this and write more on setting a good goal and outputs for the meeting: The start of the meeting should help people focus on this meeting and not everything else happening at the moment. We needContinue reading “Getting people to focus on the meeting”

Day 5 of my book writing challenge and I wrote two short part today. PowerPoint is never enough Even if you have sent out the information before the meeting, it can be a good idea to point out some crucial points, and also make sure people get some cues, so they remember what they read.Continue reading “PowerPoint is never enough”

Day 5 of my book writing challenge, and the difference between an agenda and a process. An agenda is a list of items that someone has decided should be discussed during a meeting. There does not need to be any connection between them, nor a thought on how important they are. I once worked forContinue reading “The difference between an agenda and a process”