Posts tagged "facilitator skills"
I always appreciate book reviews I randomly happen to find. I just came across this one from Michigan from the Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts! Always glad the content can be used for effective meeting training for organizations. Book Review: Boring Meetings Suck […]
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Posted by Jon Petz in Boring Meetings Suck.
As the launch of Boring Meetings Suck is past, the interest and true value of the content of effective and more productive meetings is just beginning. I’ve been fortunate to work with many organizations that want to improve their everyday office meetings from the standpoint of volume, duration and overall results. Recently, Meetings Magazine, Minnesota’s Hospitality […]
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Posted by Jon Petz in Effective Meetings Skills.
Improve your meeting productivity with some effective meeting resolutions. Why risk another year of spending weekends and late work days doing the work you should have been doing all day? Sick of endless meetings getting in the way? Then it’s time for some resolutions to take back your life and productivity. 1) I resolve to refrain […]
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Posted by Jon Petz in Articles, Boring Meetings Suck, Effective Meetings Skills.
“The right way to run a meeting” It certainly has been an interesting time in the past several months, from a New York Post interview to a mention from Readers Digest. Here was a nice to the point article posted in Readers Digest with some nice tips and a brief mention and easy SRD from […]
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Posted by Jon Petz in Articles, Boring Meetings Suck, Effective Meetings Skills.
Thanks Ohio University for putting an actual agenda in place to discuss…putting an agenda in place. I must say I enjoy when I get emails of people and organizations putting to use some of their favorite suckification reduction devices from Boring Meetings Suck. So recently, I was emailed this agenda from my Alma Mater Ohio […]
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Posted by Jon Petz in Effective Meetings Skills.
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 […]
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Posted by Jon Petz in Boring Meetings Suck TV.
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 […]
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Posted by Jon Petz in Articles, Ask the Expert, Boring Meetings Suck, Effective Meetings Skills.
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, […]
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Posted by Jon Petz in Articles, Ask the Expert, Effective Meetings Skills.
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!
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Posted by Jon Petz in Boring Meetings Suck TV.