Author and columnist Dave Barry once said, “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’” While this is funny, I don’t necessarily agree. I would add that not all meetings have contributed to the […] Read more
Effective Meetings
Once while facilitating a team development workshop it occurred to me why we waste a lot of time in meetings. The team I was facilitating this workshop for included the President of the company and his direct reports. They were struggling with effective meetings like so many executive teams do. While we were discussing some […] Read more
We are all on them way too much. They are the dreaded, multitasking, technical issues ridden ineffective conference calls. Have you ever wondered what one might look like if you were meeting face to face? Tripp and Tyler do a great job in demonstrating that in the funny video below. From the annoying beep every time […] Read more
I am an early person for the most part. I understand the benefits and importance of being on time and even early to a meeting, training, presentation and even church. While some people get a rush out of being late to everything, it just plain stresses me out, how about you? See my post: Late […] Read more
Spinning off one of our most popular posts ever “8 Important tips to help you waste time in meetings – Make bad meetings worse!” (Close to 800 Facebook Shares as of today), I have included a more serious follow-up to these tongue-in-cheek tips below. At the end of this post you will also find a slide […] Read more