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Avoid These Four Online Meeting Mistakes

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Most of us are holding more remote meetings now, and if you haven't noticed, they are inherently different from in-person meetings," says Howard Tiersky, coauthor along with Heidi Wisbach of Impactful Online Meetings: How to Run Polished Virtual Working Sessions That Are Engaging and Effective. "If you're not used to running them, you're going to make tons of mistakes. And … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication Tagged With: communicating with employees, featured blogger, meetings

Ensuring a Well-Run Meeting Starts With One Critical Step

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We’ve all walked out of a meeting and thought “Wow, that was a waste of time.” Perhaps the meeting had no clear purpose, the participants strayed off topic or the issues weren’t adequately resolved. Regardless, you left the meeting feeling frustrated. This time-wasting experience could have been avoided if the person preparing for the meeting knew how to write an agenda that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Performance Management, Productivity Tagged With: meetings, productive meetings, productivity, team building

In Person Meetings in the Time of Corona? How One Company is Making it Happen

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Remote meetings have kept business going during the pandemic, but as companies open back up, leaders are realizing that face-to-face meetings could benefit the team. "Remote work may be the new normal, but there are also times when getting everyone together in the same room is extremely valuable," says innovation expert Howard Tiersky, owner of New York City's Innovation Loft, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Management Tagged With: meetings, team building

5 Steps to Improve Engagement During Meetings

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This is a guest post by Elise Keith.  The coffee date with your personal hero, and hopefully, future mentor. The make-or-break sales demo with that perfect-fit client. The last-ditch attempt to mend a broken partnership.   When everyone in the room understands what’s at stake, engagement is automatic. We don’t worry about engagement in those situations. Instead, we focus … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication Tagged With: communicating with employees, featured blogger, meetings, time-management

Get Better Results From Your Meetings

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Meetings CAN be a waste of time and they can be the biggest productivity and engagement tool in any organization. The difference in outcome rests first and foremost on the shoulders and hands and mind of you as a leader. So think of your very last meeting with your team, and ask yourself: How productive was the meeting? Was that normal or the exception? How would … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Management Tagged With: communication, Kevin Eikenberry, leadership problems, meetings

Are You Spending Too Much Time in the Conference Room?

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Meetings can be a complete waste of time (and drain the life from your employees). But even when meetings are useful and necessary, spending hours in the same conference room week after week can make you and your staff a little stir-crazy. Consider these alternatives to shake things up: Chat with employees. You can discover a lot by simply talking with your team members in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Performance Management, Productivity Tagged With: efficiency, meetings, productivity, time-wasters

10 Ways Meetings Drain the Life from Your Team

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We've all attended meetings that were a big waste of time. There are many ways meetings can go wrong, but as a manager, you can prevent many of those problems. Check your meeting behaviors against the following list, and make changes if you’re guilty of any of these sins: Meeting for the sake of meeting. Don’t fall into the rut of scheduling a marketing meeting for Tuesday … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership, Management, Productivity Tagged With: communicating with employees, meetings, time-management

New Leaders: Adopt a Cinematic Approach to Drastically Improve Presentations

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This is a guest post by Ted Frank, author of Get to the Heart.  I’ve seen people, specifically new leaders, struggle with presentations. As they try to explain complicated diagrams and metaphors, their confidence and credibility drain as they show stock-photo slides to a bored audience. The problem? Their storytelling. But there’s a storytelling method that works for real … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication, Personal & Professional Development Tagged With: communicating with employees, communication, featured blogger, meetings, Presenting, public speaking

[Infographic]: 10 Productivity Hacks to Transform Every Business Meeting

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It's that time of year again when businesses across the U.S. start gearing up for next year. Budgets are analyzed and set. Marketing and sales plans begin to take shape. Teams assess their resource and manpower needs. And more. What does all that mean? Nearly everyone will be in meetings, potentially time-sucking, energy-draining meetings. That's why it is perfect timing to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: leadership problems, management, meetings, time-management

6 Ways to Work and Lead Differently in the Summer

Kevin Eikenberry 1 Comment

“Perfect song on the radio Sing along ’cause it’s one we know It’s a smile, it’s a kiss It’s a sip of wine, it’s summertime Sweet summertime” That’s the chorus of Kenny Chesney’s hit song "Summertime." And while those might not be the words you’d use, and while the calendar says it isn’t summer quite yet, if you live in the United States, you pretty much know ... it’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Management, Productivity Tagged With: meetings, morale, productivity, time-management

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