Create awareness for and encourage attendees to embrace different mental models. Disagreement can lead to better solutions.
Find someone neutral to facilitate your meeting if you’re deeply invested in the outcome so that your biases don’t influence the flow of the conversation.
Meet individually with key people or small groups beforehand and bring the insights from these meetings into the larger session.
Frame your agenda items as questions. When attendees see questions, they begin considering answers, leading to faster and deeper engagement.
Use the 1-2-4-All technique to quickly achieve alignment in large meetings. Based on the divide & conquer principle, alignment is created in steps starting with a group of two.