
How Meetings Fail (and how to fix it)
Meetings fail when they wander through generalities, accomplish little, and consume the attention of people who could be making better...
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Meetings fail when they wander through generalities, accomplish little, and consume the attention of people who could be making better...
The Golden Rule of Meetings: Make them no longer than they need to be. Three ways to accomplish this: Have an agenda. Communicate it...
Exit interviews attempt to capture why someone left the organization. Stay interviews attempt to capture why someone remains with the...
Most professionals don't have a problem missing meetings. We don't miss meetings because it's made it onto our calendars so nothing else...
If you are struggling to gain traction in your projects with your team, begin asking this question: who does what by when? Each meeting,...
The reason some struggle to leave work on time is that we use the 'work-being-done' as the measure. But the work is never done. So if...
As leaders, it's our responsibility to communicate proactively. Each instance of communication we provide for our team helps fill in...
Here's a few tips to leaving a meeting well: Schedule meetings back-to-back. If one meeting looks to runs long, you simply say, "my next...
The most important step in project management is defining the problem. Time spent ensuring you've addressing the real issue is always...
Rejection sucks. But not getting the feedback you need to improve is worse. Having a sales proposal turned down is painful for two...
"This job would be easy if it weren't for the people." "Employees don't care. I have to watch them closely the entire time." "How is this...
3 questions to fuel forward momentum
"And what else?" Almost every good thing starts with curiosity. The ability to ask a question and genuinely listen to the answer is the...
You've determined to use meetings as a chance to make an impact, you've invited the right people, you've communicated the agenda, you've...
One sign of organizational health is constructive conflict in your meetings. The fact that someone cares enough to make a ruckus about an...
You've determined to use meetings as a chance to make in impact, you've invited the right people, you've communicated the agenda, you've...
One of the biggest frustrations in organizational life is the meeting that overruns its allotted time. It inhibits your colleagues’...
Leading well in a meeting is one of the strongest ways to communicate value to the organization and show expertise to your colleagues....
How you conduct yourself in meetings is a force multiplier on your status in the organization
Drucker said that the large organization is the pinnacle of human society. And the meeting is the primary mechanism by which the...