meetings posts, articles, and infographics

How Teaching in the Classroom Can Teach Us a Thing or Two About Business Meetings

August 13, 2011 by Tushar Mathur with 77 views

Business meetings can be tough. With a myriad of different personalities that might take part during a meeting sometimes they can get a little bit out of hand with ideas flying about the room like paper airplanes and leading the meeting into disarray (or at least not going anywhere at all!). However if you think your audience is a tough... [read more]

Do You Do This At Meetings? I Hope Not.

March 25, 2011 by Tim Berry with 22 views

It’s been such a delight these last four years since I focused on blogging and escaped from most of the business meetings. I openly confess. I don’t like meetings. Sure, there’s the rare exception, when a group of like-minded people discuss interesting ideas. I’ve been in meetings where people are excited, ideas bouncing about, lively... [read more]

Meetings – A Total Waste Of Time

February 2, 2010 by Niall Devitt with 331 views

Guest Author Barney Austen A meeting that is not constructively planned, lacks a purpose, is not properly conducted and ends with no action points is exactly that. Yet, in business, a substantial amount of our time is spent in meetings that seem to be constructed from the off-set to fail. The responsibility for a meetings success... [read more]

If Picasso had your schedule, we'd never have heard of him

September 26, 2009 by Les McKeown with 213 views

You're going to way too many meetings.And yes, I do mean you. In fact, I'm thinking about you as I'm writing this. It's exactly 5.27am and I can picture your schedule for the rest of the day. All those meetings - in your office, in their office, in meeting rooms, 'conferenced in', synchronous, asynchronous, vital, tedious, overlapping... [read more]

3 MBA Tricks to Shorten Boring Meetings

August 26, 2009 by Tim Berry with 108 views

On the bad days, in off moments, it seems like my two years in business school were mostly about learning the definitions of a few key buzz words to use in meetings. 1. ROI Stands for return on investment, as in profits divided by total investment. For fun in boring meetings, think of it as “run out of interest.” So you say: “... [read more]

Better Meetings, Better Leadership

May 28, 2009 by Steve Roesler with 450 views

You and I are looking for ways to be more efficient at what we do. People are looking for leadership that helps them be the best at what they do. Meetings offer one of the best opportunities to display -- and evaluate -- leadership. Getting together makes a lot of sense in a world that values teamwork more and more. When groups operate... [read more]

Getting serious about your meeting problem

March 26, 2009 by Seth Godin with 123 views

Do you have one? Some folks are going to eight hours of meeting a day. At Ford, they used to have meetings to prepare for meetings, just to be sure everyone had their story straight.If you're serious about solving your meeting problem, getting things done and saving time, try this for one week. If it doesn't work, I'll be happy to give... [read more]

Three kinds of meetings

March 4, 2009 by Seth Godin with 189 views

Meetings are marketing in real time with real people. (A conference is not a meeting. A conference is a chance for a circle of people to interact). There are only three kinds of classic meetings:Information. This is a meeting where attendees are informed about what is happening (with or without their blessing). While there may be a... [read more]