You’ve got your list of things you want to accomplish for today, and yet, after a series of meetings that you had to go to throughout the day, none of the things on your list got done.
That’s because meetings are almost always a huge drain on your time, and should be killed on sight.
Think about the last few meetings you attended — did you sit through them wishing you… » Continue
June 6 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: email, meetings, Productivity | 29 comments»
…or girl.
Scott Ginsberg’s story is that one day after an event at college, he decided to keep his name tag on. What he noticed was he was instantly more approachable the rest of the day.
Since then Scott has kept the name tag on [for an odd 2400 days], writing a few books on meeting people and running seminars on the subject.
What’s interesting is the affect this small gesture has… » Continue
May 8 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: Communication, meeting, meetings, networking, talk | 13 comments»
Ian McKenzie has a few tips to keep those office visits as short as you like, so you can get back to work. There’s nothing worse than someone over-staying there welcome, at work or otherwise.
March 29 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: meeting, meetings, office, office-politics | 3 comments»
One of life’s greatest annoyances for me is the time spent waiting for a meeting to begin. The Berkun blog gives some great advice about how to get meetings off on a good foot by starting on time. What tips can you share with the group about how you get your meetings started on time?
If you called the meeting, do your %*?@?! job. Everyone… » Continue
March 9 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: Management, meetings, Productivity, time | 4 comments»
Alexander Kjerulf recently wrote an article entitled, “Five weeeeeeeeird tips for great meetings.” The tips are somewhat unconventional, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call them weird. The tips are focused around trying to make meetings not brutally boring. The following are the condensed version of the five tips. Head over to the Chief Happiness Officer to get the full flavor:
1: Open… » Continue
February 21 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: business, Communication, meetings | 1 comment»
At Say Leadership Coaching (SLC) we concentrate our efforts on just that which our name implies; coaching the leadership in companies to reach their greater potential. Executives are but one group we work with; there are leaders at every level of a company’s official org chart, and we find that titles can be irrelevant when it comes to discovering leadership talent.
Once we discover leadership talent, one of our objectives… » Continue
February 1 2007 | By Rosa | Tagged: leadership, Management, meetings, presentation, process, teaching, technique, trainers, training | 2 comments»
I’ve been thinking and writing quite a lot this week about Hamburger Management: the type of management approach that is based on always doing whatever is quickest, simplest and (above all) cheapest. Hamburger Managers provide the kind of leadership that is best described as: “Never mind the quality, look how fast it goes and how cheap it is.” Sadly, this approach is being forced on a great many otherwise perfectly… » Continue
October 23 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: attitude, behavior, bestpractices, business-ethics, civilization, civilized-work, competition, decision-making, effectiveness, empowerment, engagement, expectations, guideline, Hamburger-Management, innovation, integrity, leadership, lifebalance, Management, meetings, organization, performance, priorities, prioritization, slow-leadership, strategy, stress, success, trust, work, work-life, work/life-balance | 4 comments»
The difference between Starbucks and McDonalds from a coffee perspective is what? The experience. Starbucks wants almost $4 for a cup of coffee near me, and McDonalds wants $2. Starbucks wants $6 an hour for wifi, and McDonalds wants $2. It’s far more cost effective for a road warrior to sit in a McDonalds doing their internet chores.
But would you tell a client you’re sitting in a McDonalds? Would… » Continue
August 31 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: events, experience, hacks, howto, Management, meetings, planning, social+engineering | 7 comments»
In multi-team meetings, there are frequently situations where people within the same team contradict one another. I might view the project as being accomplished in one way; my colleague might come right behind me and say it can’t be done that way. If there’s any sense of time available to get things done, take that coversation offline.
June 26 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: Communication, meetings, project, projectmanagement, team, teamwork, work-life | 3 comments»
Meetings can have lots of loose flow to them. They start a little late because people show up a little late. There’s that spot where you haven’t seen Jumpha in a while and you ask about her children. You pass out the agenda and people face-down a while browsing it and shuffling papers. Some folks are reading and answering mail via their BlackBerrys.
I think that’s all crap. Meetings are often… » Continue
June 22 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: bestpractices, business, Communication, hack, howto, meetings, projectmanagement, Projects, worklife | 9 comments»
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