1h 8 min
How to Facilitate Insanely Effective Community Meetings with Douglas Ferguson Masters of Community with David Spinks
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In this episode of Masters of Community, we speak with Douglas Ferguson, President at Voltage Control, a change agency that helps enterprises sustain innovation and teams work better together with custom-designed meetings and workshops, both in-person and virtual. Our host, David Spinks, VP of Community at Bevy and Co-Founder of CMX, moderated the conversation.
They discuss the structure and various kinds of meetings, how to facilitate effective meetings, and what people are doing wrong when they run them. This will be useful for those who manage people or run meetings within a company or community.
Who is this episode for? Community builders, community managers, community leaders, community facilitators
Timestamps:
(03:04) - Douglas' intro
(07:02) - What is a meeting?
(10:39) - How to build a practical meeting artifact
(19:40) - Start reviewing your calendar and prioritizing meetings
(25:49) - How to drive collaboration across different teams
(33:37) - How to effectively run various facilitated meetings
(43:20) - Why should every meeting begin with a clear purpose?
(54:50) - Rapid-fire questions
Notable Quotes:
“A meeting can be when we're gathering to accomplish something or solve a problem”
“Do not be a slave to your calendar. You are a sentient human being, and you should be the boss of your calendar.”
“You need to have a solid vision and purpose of why there should be a community and how people are going to benefit from it. And so meetings are no different.”
Answers to rapid-fire questions:
1. What's your favorite book to gift or recommend to others?
A More Beautiful Question
2. What's the most obscure group you've ever facilitated a workshop for?
Noise rock
3. Should people be on or off mute in their meetings on Zoom?
We need a culture for people to feel vulnerable and have psychological safety to unmute and speak at any time. And a facilitator should have the freedom to mute everyone and not have anyone get upset or feel uncomfortable.
4. What habit has had the most positive impact on your personal life?
Consistency
5. What's one community engagement, tactic, or conversation starter that you like to use in your groups?
Asking people to tell stories about stuff that resonate with them from a place of appreciation.
If you could condense all of your life lessons into one Twitter sized piece of advice to the rest of the world on how to live, what would that advice be?
Stay curious
In this episode of Masters of Community, we speak with Douglas Ferguson, President at Voltage Control, a change agency that helps enterprises sustain innovation and teams work better together with custom-designed meetings and workshops, both in-person and virtual. Our host, David Spinks, VP of Community at Bevy and Co-Founder of CMX, moderated the conversation.
They discuss the structure and various kinds of meetings, how to facilitate effective meetings, and what people are doing wrong when they run them. This will be useful for those who manage people or run meetings within a company or community.
Who is this episode for? Community builders, community managers, community leaders, community facilitators
Timestamps:
(03:04) - Douglas' intro
(07:02) - What is a meeting?
(10:39) - How to build a practical meeting artifact
(19:40) - Start reviewing your calendar and prioritizing meetings
(25:49) - How to drive collaboration across different teams
(33:37) - How to effectively run various facilitated meetings
(43:20) - Why should every meeting begin with a clear purpose?
(54:50) - Rapid-fire questions
Notable Quotes:
“A meeting can be when we're gathering to accomplish something or solve a problem”
“Do not be a slave to your calendar. You are a sentient human being, and you should be the boss of your calendar.”
“You need to have a solid vision and purpose of why there should be a community and how people are going to benefit from it. And so meetings are no different.”
Answers to rapid-fire questions:
1. What's your favorite book to gift or recommend to others?
A More Beautiful Question
2. What's the most obscure group you've ever facilitated a workshop for?
Noise rock
3. Should people be on or off mute in their meetings on Zoom?
We need a culture for people to feel vulnerable and have psychological safety to unmute and speak at any time. And a facilitator should have the freedom to mute everyone and not have anyone get upset or feel uncomfortable.
4. What habit has had the most positive impact on your personal life?
Consistency
5. What's one community engagement, tactic, or conversation starter that you like to use in your groups?
Asking people to tell stories about stuff that resonate with them from a place of appreciation.
If you could condense all of your life lessons into one Twitter sized piece of advice to the rest of the world on how to live, what would that advice be?
Stay curious
1h 8 min