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Picture That! was created to give trainers and facilitators an alternative to using role play in complex situations. It helps participants apply principles and skills on any topic in 20 to 30 minutes. Picture That! creates the same dynamics that participants experience at work, including competition, level of engagement, conflict, problem solving, creativity, and time pressure. It helps participants apply their knowledge and provides a forum for discussing how they collaborated to achieve their goal. This activity uses picture cards, such as deck(s) of InterpraTM Cards with 12 people per deck in teams of two to three people.

NEW! InterpraTM Cards are a unique facilitation tool that assist in broadening awareness and debriefing content of workshops and meetings. Each deck of 40 original pictures is designed specifically to create an environment for metaphorical learning and concrete applications to the workplace. The decks are Communication and Negotiation, Teamwork, and Interpersonal. They can be used in a variety of ways such as by asking participants to find one or more cards:

• representing their answer to a question
• describing the topic being facilitated
• describing an experience

Each deck is priced at $29.95. The set of three is $79.95.

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The House That Cards Built is a change management simulation useful either as a stand-alone simulation or incorporated into a workshop. It uses only playing cards and paper and illustrates important components of change in less than 30 minutes. The simulation is appropriate for groups of 16 to 40 participants, including executives, managers, supervisors, non-supervisors, support staff, and technical staff.

Participants experience the dynamics of a workplace change and the common emotional stages of change such as denial, anger, bargaining, and acceptance. In addition participants explore common reactions to change such as engagement and disengagement, competition, conflict, problem solving, and time pressures.

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Teams That Cook is a multi-use simulation with applications in:

• Project management
• Team effectiveness
• Planning and decision making
• Team rewards

A simple leader guide outlines these applications for use by a team leader, human resource manager, or project team.

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Meeting Mentor Software Tool from Mindsights

Successful Teams …  Need Successful Meetings. MindSights Meeting Mentor empowers any meeting leader with professional facilitation skills to run successful meetings, every time.    

The Growing Need for Quality Meetings

Patrick Lencioni, author of the popular book Death by Meeting says; “As more of what people do takes place in teams, meetings become the setting in which the really important work gets done. Team and organizational success is becoming more dependant on the quality of its meetings.”

The Meeting Productivity Crisis

The book “How to Make Meeting Work” was written by Michael Doyle over 40 years ago. Yet, current studies still show up to 30% of meetings are unproductive. This equates to over $11 billion dollars of lost US productivity each year.  So what’s the solution?

The Meeting Productivity Solution

Running effective meeting can be very difficult.  But as professional meeting facilitators knows, the critical success factor is NOT about preparing an Agenda but about running the meeting as a Process and elevating meeting participants thinking effectiveness. Skilled meeting leaders do this by using four facilitation skills:

1. Finding the right 2-3 critical questions to ask meeting participants.
2. Bringing the right “cognitive” tools to the meeting.
3. Clearly identifying the meeting purpose and outcomes.
4. Facilitating meeting process and flow.

The Answer: MindSights Meeting Mentor (MMM)  See Demo

MMM emulates how skilled meeting leaders function and empowers any meeting leader with these same facilitation skills needed to run successful meetings – every time.

This unique self-mentoring software product can benefit you in the following ways.

1. Help the skilled meeting leader find the right questions to ask and tools to use
2. Facilitate the novice meeting leader through the entire process to planning and delivering great meetings.
3. Jump-start any meeting leaders planning with pre-developed meetings.
4. Use MMM “as is” or customize to fit your meeting.

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