Productive and effective meetings are littered with ever present tangents that take the meeting to new levels of unproductive suckiness. Here’s one thought on how to prevent tangents from taking over your meetings. Ever been in a meeting when Tangent Tony hijacks the conversation with an off-agenda issue, taking it in a direction you […]
What are most Effective Meetings missing? Focus and Results! Want help!? Then read / view for more productive and effective meetings and how to create an effective meeting mission and outcome statement. This two minute of preparation time for your meeting will have exponential results! Let’s be real – if you are hoping to have an effective […]
The conference call tips and conference call etiquette: Here are the three most abused words ever…Do you say them? Should you avoid them? If not, your conference call might suck. (sorry to be so blunt) Here is another episode of Boring Meetings Suck TV focused on those three very words that are most abused in […]
You’ve got your agenda lined up and sent out. Congrats, you’ve done the right thing to prepare for the meeting you’re hosting. But have you asked yourself this two-part question? First: “What do we intend to accomplish before walking out the door?” Second: “Do the people I invited know the answer to that question walking […]
Don’t you hate it if a tangent of new ideas takes over your meeting? Letting the tangent take control means your meeting will probably suck. As meeting host, how you handle any tangents will affect the focus and desired result of your meeting. More important, it will determine if anyone feels a sense of accomplishment […]
Well here’s a first – A guest blog on Boring Meetings Suck. It wasn’t commissioned – it was just something that I enjoyed reading and wanted to share. AND – he’s dead on as it relates to the meetings he’s speaking about. Therefore, enjoy “Champions Vs. Cavemen” by Mark Henson, chief imagination officer, sparkspace Let’s […]
Don’t Let Tangents Hijack Your Meetings! Or, should you in some cases? Ever been in a meeting when Tangent Tony hijacks the conversation with an off-agenda issue, taking it in a direction you didn’t expect? You’ve been there and so have I. So what happens next? the meeting’s objectives don’t get advanced as planned people […]
What’s THE Big Mistake While Delivering Invocations? You might look at the title and ask, “What IS an invocation?” (pronounced in-vuh-key-shuh n) The invocation, in its simplest form, is a prayer or request for the spiritual presence of God in a ceremony or event. Whether it’s appropriate to have an invocation at your corporate, […]
No doubt about it; people are creatures of habit. Nowhere is this more painfully obvious than in everyday office meetings. We march to the conference room (four minutes past the stated start time) and conduct brainstorming sessions that rarely amount to more than a drizzle. Why? Because that’s what our boss or supervisor does? Because […]
The number one complaint of most office workers is the abuse and mis-use of meetings. To begin to release my secrets to the world, here’s a first in a series. So hope these sure fire ways to get out of a meeting help! —————- Do you breathe a great sigh of relief when the message […]
