Tag: meetings
5 Reasons No One Wants to Join Your Meetings
If we were on Family Feud and the category was Things People Complain About at Work, I would be willing to wager a hefty amount that Meetings would take the top spot. Just the word “meeting” can get people’s blood boiling and quickly raise the tension in a room. OriginallyRead More
How To Increase Your Employee’s Productivity With Video Conferencing
Keeping your employees productive is one of the most important parts of maintaining a profitable business. Unfortunately, coordinating a large amount of people, keeping them on task and keeping them working to their full potential can quickly prove to be a challenging task no matter now skilled of a managerRead More
The Best Software to Integrate Video Conferencing Into Your Office
If your business has any remote workers, the ability to communicate with your employees is an integral part of your success. All of your workers are going to need to be up-to-date on topics discussed during meetings as well as informed of company goals and their responsibilities in achieving them.Read More
How to Stop Wasting Time in Meetings
The first day of my first office job, my boss told me plainly, “There are two types of people in the business world. That guy who sets up all of the meetings and the rest of us, okay?” He was no fan of wasting time, and it rubbed off onRead More
3 Biggest Career-Killers and How to Handle Them
In folklore, the hob (short for hobgoblin) is a grotesque little creature that exists for the sole purpose of making trouble for human beings. In our world, the hob is that annoying inner critic who always seems to find merciless new ways to say, “Here’s why you suck.” Now, ofRead More
5 Proven Tactics to Increase Your Productivity
A search on Amazon.com for books on Productivity returns 45,960 titles. If you’re having trouble being productive at work you may find it difficult to make the time to read a book on productivity cover to cover. For that reason, I’m going to share with you 5 proven tactics thatRead More
How to Conduct a Meeting – Not
Learning how to conduct a meeting should be mandatory in all grade schools. Maybe if it was, we would eventually end the misery that occurs so often in organizations when someone calls an informational meeting. Let’s see some common cases below.
Put the Sleeper Hold on Boring Meetings
Productivity gurus love to pick on lame meetings. But let’s be realistic…even top creative professionals have to endure meetings with clients or with project teams. Taking ownership of your work means taking responsibility for the quality of your meetings.