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		<title>Meeting Seating</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where you sit in a work meeting says something about your relationship with the boss and other employees. We&#8217;ll tell you where to find the &#8220;Yes&#8221; person and the &#8220;Yes, but&#8221; person. We&#8217;ll also show you where the boss&#8217;s harshest critic tends to sit. Click here to continue&#8230;. View the original here.]]></description>
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		<title>Terror Grips You (Someone Has Called a Meeting)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone 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&#8212; and small business owners. View the original here.]]></description>
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		<title>How to Run a Meeting Like Google</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meetings get a bad rap in business today and for good reason&#8212;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, &#8220;There is no specific agenda for this meeting. As usual, we&#8217;ll just make unrelated emotional statements about things which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crafting Your Presentation Message &#8211; The &quot;IT&quot; Method</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 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.]]></description>
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		<title>Good Meeting with Great Ideas &#8212; Now What?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;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 &#8220;what am I having for lunch?&#8221; &#8211; and the details of the meeting had already become fuzzy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conducting Effective Meetings</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[People don&#8217;t take meetings seriously Solution: Adopt a mindset among all participants that meetings are real work. You have to make your meetings &#8220;uptime&#8221; rather than &#8220;downtime.&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Meetings Work</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download this PowerPoint file In this series of 30 slides, you&#8217;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.]]></description>
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		<title>Daydreaming In Meetings? Here Are Five Ways to Focus and Listen Attentively</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a typical day at work. You&#8217;re sitting in a meeting, bored out of your skull, daydreaming about your summer vacation and watching the clock go round. Someone speaking in a tedious monotone is droning on and on, but the sound&#8217;s just become background noise to you. Then suddenly, you jolt back to full awareness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Ways to Overhaul Your Meetings Manners</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business meetings can be functional or frustrating, catalysts or catastrophes, inspirational or insipid. But it&#8217;s not always random fate that decides which kind you&#8217;ll be getting. You can help influence the tone and course of any meeting you attend by honing your meeting etiquette. Etiquette, you say? For a meeting? But of course. In any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meetings Are a Matter of Precious Time</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reid Hastie (left), a professor at the University of Chicago, contends that &#8220;every organization has too many meetings, and far too many poorly designed ones.&#8221; The main reason we don&#8217;t make meetings more productive is that we don&#8217;t value our time properly. The people who call meetings and those who attend them are not thinking [...]]]></description>
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