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 […]
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Are Your Meetings Smart Meetings?
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 […]
Four Causes of Unproductive Meetings and What to Do about Them
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 […]
How to Read a Room Like a Pro
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 […]
Meetings Got You Down? You Are Not Alone
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 […]
An Interview with Dick Axelrod: Creating Productive Team Meeting Practices in Organisations
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 […]
Ask These 12 Questions to Help You Hold More Productive Business Meetings
Insights from a new book — Let’s Stop Meeting Like This by Dick and Emily Axelrod — can help you assess if your meetings are broken–and provide you with proper techniques to […]
Sit. Stay. – Guest Post by Sharon Jordan-Evans and Beverly Kaye
The Stay Interview… key to engaging and retaining talent Sit. Stay. That command works for your dog (maybe). But does it work for engaging and keeping the talented employees you cannot afford […]
The Face of Courage
“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 […]