Wherever we go we find people have developed interesting innovative ideas to create energizing, engaging meetings. Our meeting canoe is a proven framework for creating high engagement gatherings and provides a template for sharing ideas.. We invite you to join our meeting conversation by sharing an idea or concept that you have found successful. While you’re here feel free to take an idea or two as well.

Our goal is to create a space where people can share what works and where you can go when you are in need of a good idea.

Each of the six questions relates to specific part of the canoe. We invite you to join in anyplace and share what you know.

You can find out more about the meeting canoe by reading the excerpt from Excerpt from Richard H. Axelrod's book, “Terms of Engagement: New Ways of Leading and Changing Organizations” (Second Edition, Berrett- Koehler Publishers, October, 2010).

---

Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites

Excerpt from Richard H. Axelrod's book, “Terms of Engagement: New Ways of Leading and Changing Organizations” (Second Edition, Berrett- Koehler Publishers, October, 2010).

By Richard H. Axelrod, founder, The Axelrod Group

Everyday Leadership Conversation 1: Find Out What Is Important to the Other Person

In workshops, I ask participants to discuss with the person sitting next to them the following question for four minutes: What do you care about at work and why? When the four minutes are up, people do not want to disengage from the conversation because they find it so interesting.

---

Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites