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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
