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3 Traps to Avoid When Using Sticky Notes in Workshops

Before you start your next meeting or workshop with sticky notes, check that you’re not falling into these traps first.

6 min readFeb 3, 2022

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One big sticky note on a board saying ONE-STOP SHOP, surrounded by lots of smaller sticky notes

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7 unexpected things I’ve learned facilitating meetings

What advice would you tell your Earlier Self about running meetings better? After about 20 years of running meetings, here’s mine.

6 min readOct 14, 2021

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7 unexpected things I’ve learned facilitating meetings

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Help Your Team Make Decisions With The CAPPED Decision Framework

Sick of not making decisions in meetings, or punting commitment to the next meeting? This CAPPED decision framework will help.

7 min readOct 6, 2021

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Help Your Team Make Decisions With The CAPPED Decision Framework

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Bored with meetings? Have an Unmeeting instead

Bring the magic of the ‘unconference’ format to your work meetings, and watch engagement and progress soar.

6 min readJul 8, 2021

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Bored with meetings? Have an Unmeeting instead

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Calendar software companies: for all our sakes, please make this one change

Here’s a tiny software change that could make so many meetings much better, plus a hack we can all do in the meantime.

4 min readMay 31, 2021

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Calendar software companies: for all our sakes, please make this one change

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Get better design feedback with vignette sketches

Let visuals do the heavy lifting for you, to set context for everybody in your design critique sessions, and get better feedback.

7 min readOct 14, 2020

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Get better design feedback with vignette sketches

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6 anti-behaviours in design critique, and how to handle them

Are your design critique sessions tremendous or tedious? Help everyone get more out of them by spotting and avoiding these behaviours.

9 min readSep 8, 2020

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Stop asking “What problem are we trying to solve?”

“What problem are we trying to solve?” is a smart question, but it usually gets us nowhere. Here’s a better way, and some better questions…

5 min readJun 18, 2020

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5 killer biases in strategy sessions, and how to avoid them

Just knowing about cognitive biases isn’t enough. Here are some super practical ways to avoid them, based on years of running workshops.

9 min readJan 28, 2019

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5 killer biases in strategy sessions, and how to avoid them

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The problem with problems, and a better way to frame them visually

Here’s a way you can maximise the chance of better problem definition in strategy and design, by framing your problem visually.

10 min readJan 8, 2019

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The problem with problems, and a better way to frame them visually

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Ben Crothers

Ben Crothers

Design strategist, educator, sketchnoter, facilitator, explainer, author of Presto Sketching. I like bringing out creativity in others.

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