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Facilitation

Creating highly effective teams

June 25, 2021

High Empathy is the key to creating an effective working agreement that helps Distributed Teams succeed. This guide with help you with a step by step approach for doing this.

Designing virtual rooms for radical transparency

March 26, 2021

Creating context is a critical element for designing effective virtual workspaces. Virtual Offices like Berst can enable you to create radical transparency by connecting your context with rooms.

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Setting up a hybrid workshop environment for high engagement

March 19, 2021

Hybrid workshops can be challenging, but there are some simple patterns that work in practice. Understanding this can help you setup your virtual office for success.

The best way to hear tough feedback is virtually

March 9, 2021

Some facilitation approaches like Ritual Dissent are perfect for high performance teams, as it create the space of high quality feedback. Virtual Offices make this even simpler to run.

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3 practical tips to fight “Zoom fatigue”

December 29, 2020

Low engagement events is the real killer in virtual working environments. These 3 approaches help build engagement while working in virtual or hybrid events.

Facilitation principles for when things go off track

September 26, 2020

Workshops can lose their way quickly. It’s a facilitator’s job to note this and react in the moment and adjust on the fly. These two principles will help you stay on track.

6 Easy Steps to Create a Company Culture Code

November 29, 2018

Culture codes help set clear expectations about how people work and act. In distributed working environment this can be a key factors in the difference between high and mediocre performance.

3 simple ways to build an inclusive team

May 18, 2018

Empathy is the key to building an inclusive team, especially in distributed teams when you can't rely on proximity. These 3 simple approaches can help you get off on the right foot.

Defining an Agile delivery plan with the OODA loop

August 18, 2016

Effective planning in Agile, allows teams to rapidly make decisions based on all readily available information to create an effective plan. This simple approach helps you do exactly that.

Three techniques to enable agile planning, (User Story Mapping, Risk Impact Mapping, Outcome Map).

Align your team with a strategy brief

July 28, 2016

Organisations typically approach creating team alignment by setting and sharing a company vision. But this often falls flat. A Strategy Back-brief enables organisations to bridge the execution gap.