by Rob Jensen | Mar 20, 2024 | Blog, Customer Advisory Board Best Practices, Facilitation, Meeting Preparation
In these days of ever-shrinking attention spans, less tolerance for sales messaging and overscheduled professionals, the era of long PowerPoint presentations may be coming to an end. Indeed, PowerPoint is designed for one-way presentations to an audience (not unlike a...
by Rob Jensen | Feb 16, 2022 | Blog, Customer Advisory Board Best Practices, Facilitation, Meeting Preparation
While PowerPoint is an excellent business tool to communicate ideas, its pervasive, constant use has weakened the impact it once had. While professionals may feel naked in front of an audience without it, spectators often lose interest quickly—if not outright groan...
by Rob Jensen | Jul 29, 2020 | Agenda, Blog, Facilitation, Virtual Meeting
Customer Advisory Board (CAB) managers who oversee successful board programs know the value of stimulating customer advisory board breakout sessions. After all, these are often the most engaging, insightful, fun and well-reviewed aspects of any CAB meeting. And even...
by Rob Jensen | Nov 20, 2018 | Blog, Customer Advisory Board Best Practices, Facilitation
During a recent Ignite webinar, our experts described techniques to effectively facilitate customer advisory board (CAB) meetings. After all, facilitation is constant challenge for companies who attempt to do this themselves with little experience or understanding of...
by Rob Jensen | May 18, 2016 | Blog, Facilitation, Strategy & Design
Readers of our blog know that we dedicate this series to providing guidance to new and experienced customer advisory board (CAB) managers towards establishing, managing and optimizing their programs for maximum benefit. But might the proven methodologies and best...
by Rob Jensen | Sep 16, 2015 | Blog, Customer Advisory Board Best Practices, Facilitation
Having managed hundreds of customer advisory board (CAB) meetings and engagements over the last decade, Ignite Advisory Group realizes that the vast majority of programs go extremely well, deliver outstanding results, and leave host companies – and more importantly,...