Meeting Skills
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Friday, August 27th, 2010In another one of those “I can’t believe they had to spend money on that!” studies, scientists have proven that too many meetings make people grumpy. Worst of all, according to Slow Leadership (how’s that for a name?) holding too many meetings passes a strong message: the boss doesn’t trust the team to function without [...]
Meetings Are a Matter of Precious Time
Thursday, August 5th, 2010Reid Hastie (left), a professor at the University of Chicago, contends that “every organization has too many meetings, and far too many poorly designed ones.” The main reason we don’t make meetings more productive is that we don’t value our time properly. The people who call meetings and those who attend them are not thinking [...]
Simple Parliamentary Procedure: Guidelines for Better Business Meetings
Thursday, August 5th, 2010Download this PDF file Have you ever been to an out-of-control meeting? A meeting where two or three items were discussed at once? A meeting where you never had a chance to express your views! A meeting where a vote was never taken and in the end, the president made the final decision? Chances are, [...]
Meeting Seating
Friday, July 16th, 2010Where you sit in a work meeting says something about your relationship with the boss and other employees. We’ll tell you where to find the “Yes” person and the “Yes, but” person. We’ll also show you where the boss’s harshest critic tends to sit. Click here to continue…. View the original here.
Terror Grips You (Someone Has Called a Meeting)
Friday, July 2nd, 2010Everyone has heard the advice on how to make meetings productive: have an agenda; force people to stay on topic; limit discussion; make everyone stand throughout (to make it uncomfortable for things to drag on). And still, unproductive meetings remain a major subject of complaints by employees— and small business owners. View the original here.
How to Run a Meeting Like Google
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010Meetings get a bad rap in business today and for good reason—very little gets accomplished in them. I can recall a Dilbert cartoon in which several people sat around a table while the meeting organizer said, “There is no specific agenda for this meeting. As usual, we’ll just make unrelated emotional statements about things which [...]
Crafting Your Presentation Message – The "IT" Method
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010The IT Method is an exercise to help you develop the content of your presentation. The IT Method is a five-step process: View the original here.
Good Meeting with Great Ideas — Now What?
Monday, March 22nd, 2010I’m sure you’ve been there: in the middle of some endless meeting you promised to send an email or make a call or check some facts. By the time you returned to your desk, your main concern was “what am I having for lunch?” – and the details of the meeting had already become fuzzy. [...]
Conducting Effective Meetings
Monday, November 9th, 2009People don’t take meetings seriously Solution: Adopt a mindset among all participants that meetings are real work. You have to make your meetings “uptime” rather than “downtime.” Example: Put a poster on the wall of every conference room with a series of simple questions about the meetings to act as a visual reminder: Do you [...]
Make Meetings Work
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Download this PowerPoint file In this series of 30 slides, you’ll learn to determine if a meeting is necessary, what types of meeting can be prepared, how to plan a meeting, and how to develop effective facilitation skills.
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