139 articles on "meeting"

7 Strategies for Handling Last Minute Meetings

7 Strategies for Handling Last Minute Meetings by: Susan FriedmannHave you ever found yourself having to scramble to organize a meeting at the last minute? Wouldn’t it be nice that if and when this daunting situation arose, you were well prepa...

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Vampire Meetings and How to Slay Them

VAMPIRE MEETINGS AND HOW TO SLAY THEMMeetings can be like mythical vampires – sucking the life out of intelligent and creative people. And sucking the funds out of businesses. Unfortunately, there are too many of these meetings in business today. A...

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Managing Monsters in Meetings - Part 1, General Strategies for Unproductive Behavior

It happens easily. You're conducting a meeting and suddenly a small side meeting starts. Then someone introduces an unrelated issue. Someone else ridicules the new issue. Everyone laughs, except the person who mentioned the idea. Then someone in...

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Nine Ways Johnny Carson Can Help You Run Outstanding Meetings

Nine Ways Johnny Carson Can Help You Run Outstanding Meetings by: Ed Sykes Recently, America lost one of the giants of late night television, Johnny Carson. He was a master at his craft, because he would conduct his show, essentially like a nine...

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Ten Secrets of Super Successful Meeting Planners

Ten Secrets of Super Successful Meeting Planners by: Susan Friedmann Whoever said that being a meeting planner was easy, lied! Rather, it should be classified under the tough and demanding job category. But, along with being tough, it’s also f...

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35 Surefire Ways to Kill a Meeting

urefire Ways to Kill a Meeting by: John Gravitt 1. Play “find the meeting” by changing the location and time of your meeting at the last minute. 2. Don’t bother to book your meeting room in advance. Lead the group from room to room trying ...

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Terrible Meetings - Ten Ways to Spot Them!

Meetings are valuable components of organisations. Yet they need process, discipline and leadership/facilitation to work best. Working at getting them right is one of the most value-creating activities any organisation can embark on. But it doesn&apo...

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Magnificent Meetings - 5 Tips for Success

It is already marked in your diary in red ink - MEETING. You wishyou could skip it because you have so much work to do. Deep downthough there is another reason you would like to avoid themeeting - what if a colleague puts you on the spot and you make...

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Internet Dating – It’s Not For Geeks

Internet Dating – It’s Not For Geeks by: Sara Blackmore Six months ago an old school friend and I were chatting over coffee, putting the world to rights as women do. She was bemoaning her lack of success in meeting the “right sort” of me...

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Black-Belt Sales Meeting Moves

BLACK-BELT SALES MEETING MOVESCopyright (C) 1990John K. MackenzieAll rights reservedDedicated to those who realize that most sales meetings are more important for those who give them, than they are for those who come to them.1. Organize a program adv...

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