Meeting Facilitation Techniques

noun a petition or other document in which the signatures are arranged in a circle to conceal the order of signing

• The round robin tournament format ensures that each participant competes against every other participant.
• We're doing a round robin style competition to see who's the best at ping pong.
• Let's do a round robin to determine who has the best taste in music.
• The round robin of interviews was exhausting, but necessary to find the right candidate.

noun a word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea

verb a word that expresses an action or state of being

adjective a word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun

adverb a word that modifies or describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb

pronoun a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this)

preposition a word that shows the relationship between a noun (or pronoun) and other words in a sentence

conjunction a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause

article a word that is used to limit a noun, either definite (the) or indefinite (a/an)

• Before we move on to the next topic, let's put a pin in it and revisit this issue later.
• Let's just put a pin in it for now and come back to it when we have more time.
• Hey, let's put a pin in it and grab some lunch before we continue.
• When emotions run high, sometimes it's best to put a pin in it and revisit the conversation when everyone has calmed down.