There are plenty of reasons people dislike meetings. Just ask and you’ll have no trouble getting a long list. But let’s not focus on the negative. Instead of listing the problems with meetings, I’d rather talk about creating better meetings. If you use these four ideas, you will have more effective, more focused, and overall […]
Five Keys to Planning Better Virtual Meetings
Whenever I ask groups about the effectiveness of the meetings they attend, the responses are dismal; and when those meetings are virtual, rather than in the conference room down the hall, they certainly aren’t better. While there is much known and written about making any sort of meeting better, and much of it applies to […]
Remarkable TV: The Leader’s Role in a Meeting
Meetings…It’s probably safe to say that we all have our own horror stories of meetings-gone-wrong in the past. Here are four tips to help take some of the pain and horror out of your next meeting and to help more clearly define your role as a leader in meetings. Tweet it out: The leader’s most […]
The Difference Between Groupthink and Teamthink
Chances are you have heard the phrase “groupthink” and if so you have a justifiably negative feeling about the idea. Chances are probably even better that you haven’t heard the phrase “teamthink”, and that is the point of this article. The word and idea of groupthink was popularized in the early 1970’s based on a […]
Leading Effective Virtual Meetings
Meetings. Most everyone believes their meetings could be more effective. But at the top of the list are virtual meetings and conference calls. Do you have people muting themselves and not paying attention to the meeting? Do you have trouble getting people to participate? Are you frustrated by how little you actually achieve? If you […]
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