Episode 216: Meeting Facilitation with Douglas Ferguson

Can you run effective meetings and still protect maker time? Yes, and you can even transform meetings into delightful, collaborative parts of the day. Our guest today is Douglas Ferguson, President of Voltage Control and author of Magical Meetings. You’ll learn what meetings aren’t necessary, how to run meetings that are, tips on how to make those meetings magical, and more.Download the MP3 audio file: right-click here and choose Save As.Podcast feed: subscribe to https://feeds.simplecast.com/4MvgQ73R in your favorite podcast app, and follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Podcasts.Show NotesVoltage Control — Douglas’s consulting companyMagical Meetings — Douglas’s book on getting the most out of meetingsExtreme Programming, Agile, Scrum, Lean, Design Thinking — popular methodologiesFacilitation Lab — weekly community meetings at Voltage Control, ThursdaysGoogle Docs, MURAL, Miro, Figma — popular tools for live collaborationRACI chart — responsible, accountable, consulted or informedMagical Meetings resourcesVoltage Control’s blogVoltage Control’s courses & workshopsFollow Douglas on  TwitterToday’s Sponsor This episode is brought to you by Around — video calls designed for collaboration, not meetings. Around's lightweight, beautiful and fun interface automatically frees up your screen; it's perfect for design sessions, crits, and brainstorms. Just search for around_hq on Twitter, you'll see that the design community is obsessed with this tool. Try it out for free at around.co/uibreakfast.Interested in sponsoring an episode? Learn more here.Leave a ReviewReviews are hugely important because they help new people discover this podcast. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave a review on iTunes. Here’s how.