Impact Lab Featured Content

An easy tool to help teams prioritize: How to choose the best option(s)

Essential to planning is identifying what you are and are not going to do.

Problem Tree: Understanding the Root Cause of a Challenge

Problem trees help diagnose the underlying causes of key issues that the team would like to tackle. 

Should we be in-person or virtual? Navigating the Future of Meetings

We collaborate closely with partners in virtual and in-person spaces. We are excited to share what we’ve learned so you can help your team use both spaces as effectively as possible. 

The Permanence of Virtual Engagement (and Why that’s Not a Bad Thing)

Let’s embrace the fact that it’s not going anywhere and continue to find ways to effectively engage groups in this space. What does success look like?

The Myth of the General Public

When it comes to sharing information or messages, your audience will never be the ‘general public’. It’s a myth, and here are the reasons why…

4 Reasons Why Behavior Change is Happening at Lightning Speed

Whether by choice or enforcement, people are shifting their behaviors in one way or another. Read our reasons why behavior change is able to occur so quickly right now.

Our best warm-up activities for virtual meetings

Especially when people are in separate spaces during virtual meetings, warm-up activities are one of your most powerful tools for building energy and camaraderie. Try some of our favorites to build a better meeting from the start.

Why team culture matters so much right now

When a global pandemic like COVID-19 turns our world upside down, we know our teams will not be able to simply return to the way things were before. Working on team culture right now is part of helping our organizations make it through this crisis and building a foundation for the future. We share some ideas on how to build a positive team culture when people can’t be in-person.

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How to set up a successful remote workshop

How to create a good remote workshop is critical as you and your team adjust to working remotely and want to move projects forward. Remote workshops don’t have to be boring, they can be as productive and enjoyable as in-person meetings. Use this guidance to help improve your preparation, communications, and overall remote workshop design.

Pants optional: tips to survive working from home

Working from home can start off glorious but then get gritty pretty fast. Here are some tips to help you personally make it through the transition to working remotely.

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Don’t worry about working from home, just practice

If you are facing the prospect of working from home in the weeks and months ahead you’re probably wondering how to keep people and projects moving forward. What about all of the scheduled meetings? Won’t productivity come to a grinding halt? Nothing has to stop or even slow down when your team works remotely. Here are the tips you need to move forward…

 

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Is there any hope for our meetings?

Meetings (and robots) are capable of so much more than spewing out bullet points.

How do I ask my boss for the training I need?

Creativity is great, but not when you’re always using it to get by in a job you weren’t trained for.

Help! Previous project manager won’t let me do my job.

Transitions are tough, especially when a controlling colleague won’t let you take the reins on a project.

From the IbD Library

A truly helpful tool doesn’t go out of date. We’re happy to feature RACI yet again - one of our favorite ways to help teams improve communications and efficiency.

Check out this simple tool from the IbD library to help you work smarter for people and animals.

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