Let’s Stop Meeting Like This
The holiday season is a time for coming together and connecting with friends and family. Just as connection enhances our lives personally, it also enables us to work together professionally. Meetings offer […]
The holiday season is a time for coming together and connecting with friends and family. Just as connection enhances our lives personally, it also enables us to work together professionally. Meetings offer […]
Just as a SMART phone does more than make phone calls, a SMART Meeting does more than start and end on time. SMART meetings: Increase collaboration Resolve critical business issues Spark creativity […]
1. Unclear Purpose Meeting participants are unclear about the purpose of the meeting or what they want to accomplish. Before holding a meeting, ask yourself what you want to be different for […]
Seasoned experts who understand how to work with the energy of a room—a high school teacher, a legal mediator, and two business executives—help you handle any family, work or social interaction with […]
The knee-jerk response to these statistics is to eliminate unnecessary meetings. (HBR Meeting Decision Tree) We agree that makes sense. But if that is all you do, all you have is fewer […]
How do we create productive team meetings where work gets done and relationships are built? Hear from Dick Axelrod as he shares his Meeting Canoe framework to guide us in designing team […]
“I’m dying.” Jamie’s strong vibrant voice uttered these words as Emily and I, along with friends and family, gathered at a healing ceremony to honor, support, and show our love for Jamie […]
A joint post by Dick and Emily Axelrod Have you ever had this experience? A red-faced, foot-stomping child yells at the top of their voice, “That’s not fair!” “Life isn’t fair,” you respond, […]
Millennials are continuous learners, team players, collaborators, achievement-oriented, socially conscious, and highly educated. Like many of us, they hate to have their time wasted in meetings that become soul-sucking chores. The experience […]