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 […]
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 […]
In order to keep your simple everyday office meetings effective and necessary, here are three basic Meeting Mistakes you can no longer afford to make… Over the past century, humankind has made amazing advances in everything from technology and medicine to automation and instant communication. Yet we’re still plagued by the multibillion-dollar productivity loss from […]
Why do meetings never start on time? Because that’s what we’ve learned to do from our past history. You want to learn how to run more effective meetings? Start them on time and get them done with collaboration and committment!
Conference calls are like anti-biotics. Over prescribed and quickly begin to cause resistance! You want to help your conference calls not suck? Here’s the starter SRD’s (Suckification Reduction Devices).
First TV interview for Boring Meetings Suck on the Ohio News Network.
Boring Meetings Suck – Get MORE out of meetings, or, get OUT of more meetings! With mankind making nearly every type of technological and personal advance, the general office team, brainstorming, status and powerpoint based meeting on most cases still suck. What’s the deal? Well, some people took notice of the ideas the Don The […]
