48 articles on "meetings"

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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Why Would Anyone Do That in My Meeting

Imagine that you open a meeting by saying, "We need to talk about the budget."And someone responds with, "I named my dog Budget because everyone tells me he's too big."After the laughter subsides, you wonder why anyone would make such a silly re...

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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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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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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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To Meet or Not to Meet…What are the Questions

Meetings can be a total waste of time or a powerful and productive communication tool that solve problems, stimulate ideas, promote team spirit and generate action. The results lie totally in how they are run. Organized and well-managed meetings will...

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A Meeting A Day Wastes Your Life Away

Meeting. A coming face to face for friendly or hostile ends. >>Chambers 20th Century Dictionary.How many millions of hours will be wasted today in pointless,unplanned and unproductive meetings? Take a guess.If just 1 person in 20 of America's wo...

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Meetings, Bloody Meetings

MEETINGS, BLOODY MEETINGS(reprinted from February 1998 issue of Channel Magazine)How do you keep your most talented employees, staff, board members, or association members focused and motivated in meetings, let alone motivating them to attend? The qu...

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