Category: Meetings

Two Guiding Principles for Effective Meetings and Presentations

Dale Ludwig
July 30, 2024 0 Comments
Two Guiding Principles for Effective Meetings and Presentations

We shot a few videos recently focusing on some of the fundamental aspects of our work. Here are two that define meetings and presentations as Orderly Conversations. Understanding the consequences of that definition helps facilitators plan and run more effective meetings. Meetings and Presentations are Not Speeches Transcript: “When it comes to improving face-to-face communication,...

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Meeting the Hybrid Challenge

Barbara Egel
April 15, 2024 0 Comments
Group of people around a table conducting a hybrid meeting with people on a monitor joining virtually.

Like it or not, hybrid meetings (some people in a room together and others logging in virtually) seem to be here to stay. We’ve all gone from “I’d better learn to use Zoom” to clicking on Join Meeting in our sleep. However, mastery of the software doesn’t mean mastery of the process of planning and...

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Three Steps to Improve Listening Skills

Dale Ludwig
April 15, 2024 0 Comments
Four people actively listening to the speaker in a meeting at a round table.

Active listening is one of the many communication skills we help our clients develop in our communication skills workshops. Like so many communication skills, we need to be intentional in their use until they develop into a habit. Recently, I read an article in the Harvard Business Review titled “What Is Active Listening” by Amy...

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Effective Meetings Start with a Clear Purpose and Context

Barbara Egel
February 29, 2024 0 Comments
Speech bubble that says “Today’s Agenda”

We were in the midst of a complex, multi-part training at a Fortune 500 company, and the topic of conversation was employees being invited to meetings but having no idea why they were invited or what they were expected to contribute. One of us asked whether meeting invitations came with a topic description or a...

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How a Simple Nod Can Make Business Communication Better

Dale Ludwig
February 29, 2024 0 Comments
Man intently listening to his two colleagues during a meeting

We spend a lot of time helping people succeed as trainers, meeting facilitators, and presenters. That work focuses on helping people initiate and manage the conversation that takes place in each of these settings. What we rarely focus on is the role of the people receiving the training, participating in the meeting, or listening to...

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The Power of Paper – Why Meeting Notes Are Still An Important Tool

Greg Owen-Boger
October 31, 2023 0 Comments
People in a meeting taking notes

Recently, a learner asked me a seemingly simple question: Should she take notes during the course of a meeting? She wondered if notetaking was an old standard practice that had gone by the wayside or if it was still seen as necessary in current business culture.   My answer to her was a resounding, “Yes!” In...

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Adapting to Your Default Approach for Better Business Presentations

Dale Ludwig
August 15, 2023 0 Comments
You man giving a Business presentations

One of the benefits of defining business presentations as Orderly Conversations® is that we can guide learners’ improvement based on their individual responses to the tensions involved. Fundamentally, this tension is between what’s required to make a presentation an orderly process and what makes it a spontaneous interaction. Let’s break that down. Presentations Require Order ...

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When Sales Leaders Need to Demonstrate “Cause in the Matter”

Greg Owen-Boger
July 18, 2023 0 Comments
Women sitting in front of monitors during virtual meeting in this Case Study

When people participate in Turpin workshops, individual members and teams enjoy a host of secondary benefits beyond greater comfort with their own communication skills. Managers and leaders are often pleasantly surprised by how team meetings become more efficient, leadership skills start to emerge, relationships blossom, and so on. We often hear that teams “Turpinize” their...

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Your Business Communication Motto: Make it Easy!  

Barbara Egel
June 15, 2023 0 Comments
Executive director woman using business communication during a conference meeting

In addition to being a trainer for Turpin, I’ve spent many years teaching communication to undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals. In the course of teaching everything from Composition 101 to complex ideas, I finally hit on one simple goal that can act as a guiding light for everything from emails to keynotes: Make It Easy....

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