139 articles on "meeting"

Business Meeting Etiquette

Business Meeting Etiquette by: Neil Payne Business etiquette is essentially about building relationships with colleagues, clients or customers. In the business world, it is these people that can influence your success or failure. Etiquette, and ...

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How Much Risk Is Too Much To Take

The ladder was braced against the railings going to the basement. I started climbing up. I had to get to the ceiling and this was my Rube Goldberg way of doing it without having to put up scaffolding. I made it up two or three rungs before coming to ...

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Quick Tip - Effective Meetings Begin With a Goal

Goals are critically important for the success of a meeting. You must know what you want so you can ask for it. And the participants need to know what you want so they can help you get it. Without goals, a meeting becomes a journey without a destinat...

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The Seven Keys to Successful Offsite Meeting Management

A large offsite meeting is very much like a stack of dominoes. If one of those dominoes should happen to fall, the entire row simply collapses. Similarly, if you miss one critical detail, your offsite meeting can quickly unravel into complete chaos....

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Quick Tip - Effective Meetings Have SMART Goals

The first step in planning an agenda is to identify the goals for the meeting. Properly done, goals have five S M A R T characteristics. They are:Specific. The goal must tell exactly what will be accomplished. For example: During the next hour we wil...

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Why Training Fails

Sometimes when I conduct my workshop on Effective Meetings, one of the participants will ask, "Where's my boss?"And I say, "Your boss claimed to be an expert on holding effective meetings."Then the person laughs. "My boss needs to attend your wo...

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Car Hire

Suppose you have reached a town which you were never seen before.You want to attend a very important meeting there and thus searching a car on hire to reach the destination as soon as possible.You see one and immediately rush inside a car and ordere...

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30 Tips for Keeping Meeting Expenses to a Minimum

30 Tips for Keeping Meeting Expenses to a Minimum by: Susan Freidmann Money makes the world go ‘round. And when it comes to meeting planning, money can probably get you whatever you want. However, few event planners have the luxury of an unlim...

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Managing Your Meetings

Managing Meetings"To get something done a meeting should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent."~author unknownOne of the complaints I hear most often is about the number of meetings people attend during any given week. It isn&...

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Redefining Distance to Market Products or Services

The recent terrorist attacks here in the US have caused many companies and individuals to rethink how they want to market to and work with others. As a result, web-enabled presentations and or collaborations are finally coming of age – the technolo...

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