How a Facilitator Helps Your Hold Effective Meetings
Bad meetings do more than waste time. They keep you from being competitive. Here’s how a facilitator will help you get results.
How to Hold Effective Staff Meetings
Bad staff meetings keep people from making money for your company. Here is how to hold an effective staff meeting.
How to Protect Your Boss From Bad Meetings
If you are an administrative assistant, you can help your boss by making sure attending a meeting makes sense. Here’s what to do.
How to Protect Yourself from Meetings
Rather than trudge off to every and any meeting that pops up on your calendar, here’s how to protect your time.
How to Select a Facilitator
Facilitation is a complex activity. Thus, you want to make sure that you engage someone who knows how to help you get results. Here’s what to look for.
How to Start Meetings on Time
One of the most aggravating problems with meetings is people who arrive late. This either delays starting the meeting or undermines the value of work performed at the beginning. Here’s how to fix it.
Lessons From the Bad Meeting Contest
Here are the winning entries from a bad meeting contest and comments on what to do so that you can avoid these problems.
Monsters in Meetings – Part 1, How to Manage Unproductive Behavior
Everyone complains about bad meetings and how they waste everyone’s time. Here are five general strategies to make sure that you hold an effective meeting, even when unproductive behavior threatens to ruin it. (This is the first of a seven part article on Managing Monsters in Meetings.)
Monsters in Meetings – Part 2, Multiple Conversations
A simple side conversation can eat holes in a meeting. Here’s how to stop them and bring your meeting back on track. (This is the second of a seven part article on Managing Monsters in Meetings.)
Monsters in Meetings – Part 3, Drifting From the Topic
You’ve done everything necessary to hold an effective meeting. But someone says something that seems completely unrelated to the goal for the meeting. Here’s how to respond. (This is the third of a seven part article on Managing Monsters in Meetings.)