Embracing Cultural Diversity in the Workplace
In today's rapidly evolving work landscape, embracing cultural diversity in the workplace is not just a buzzword. It is a vital necessity for organizations seeking sustainable success. Especially, if your organization has international offices, customers, or partners....
7 Essential Tips to Improve Listening Skills in Meetings
In today's fast-paced work environment, effective meetings are crucial for communication, collaboration, and decision-making among colleagues. Active listening plays a pivotal role in these meetings, allowing you to better understand your colleagues' ideas,...
Effective Listening: The Key to Successful Meetings
Effective communication is vital in any workplace, and meetings play a crucial role in ensuring that communication is clear, concise, and productive. However, effective communication is not just about speaking your mind; it is also about listening to others. Mastering...
Meeting Cost Reduction: Practical Strategies and Best Practices
Meetings can be incredibly valuable for collaboration, and decision-making, but they can also be a major drain on resources if not managed efficiently. That's why meeting cost reduction is so important. In fact, according to a study by Harvard Business Review,...
The Ultimate Checklist to Effective One-on-one Meetings
One-on-one meetings are an integral part of any successful manager-employee relationship. Effective one-on-one meetings help build trust, increase productivity, and align personal and organizational goals. In this blog post, we will share with you a comprehensive...
The Power of One-on-one Meetings: Discover the Top Benefits
Would you like to enhance communication with your team and drive better results? Then you should look into the benefits of one-on-one meetings. One-on-ones offer a valuable opportunity for managers and employees to connect and discuss important topics, ranging from...
The Key Purpose and Importance of One-on-one Meetings
As a business owner or manager, you want to ensure that your team is engaged, productive, and working towards a common goal. Regular one-on-one meetings can be the key to achieving this. In fact, businesses that prioritize one-on-ones have reported higher levels of...
Maintenance announcement: MeetingKing will be briefly off-line Saturday April 1 at 22:00 UTC
The MeetingKing application will be off-line for approximately 1 hour starting Saturday April 1 at 22:00 UTC. During this time we will upgrade our back-end to the latest version of our platform to improve performance, security and prepare us for future enhancements....
The Importance of Holding Meetings – 9 Benefits to Your Team
Having team meetings is a part of any business or organization. While some of these meetings, like the ones with no agenda or no action items, might seem less fruitful, a well-executed meeting is sure to bring multiple benefits to everyone involved. From gathering...
7 Quick and Effective Steps for Tracking Action Items
In order to reach business or organizational goals, we need to take action. Knowing what tasks need to be completed to reach the finish line and how to track these action items effectively, might determine your future success. Without further ado, let’s dive into the...
5 Proven Strategies for Writing and Managing Action Items
Meeting action items (or tasks) are the driving force of any business, organization, institution, or club. They help you reach your goals. For this reason, writing and managing action items properly is essential. We created a list of 5 best practices and tips to make...
Maximizing Productivity: The Importance of Meeting Action Items
Time is the most valuable resource for any business or organization, which is why it's essential that each meeting you attend is productive and worthwhile. A well-organized meeting will start with a carefully considered agenda and end with a set of meeting minutes...
The Importance of Meeting Minutes – 5 Key Benefits
Meetings are a great way to bring teams together. They provide an excellent opportunity to share ideas, collaborate, brainstorm, strategize, get everyone on the same page, and make decisions. Meeting minutes can ensure that all the discussions and decisions made...
Ad Hoc Meetings – Everything You Need to Know
Meetings are an essential part of the work environment. We regularly attend different types of meetings, such as brainstorming, decision-making, or problem-solving. In this article, we would like to focus on ad hoc meetings: what they are, when to hold them, if they...
7 Tips for Productive Ad Hoc Meetings
Ad hoc or impromptu meetings, as the name suggests, happen outside your recurring meetings. As a result, they might be disruptive to your regular workflow and create some frustration among your colleagues. For this reason, it is important to learn how to hold...
Start 2023 with more effective meetings!
Happy New Year! Start this year by improving your office productivity. Up to 50% of meeting time is wasted, because participants are not prepared for a meeting and there is no follow-up. Do you want to continue to waste time with unprepared meeting participants? Do...
Effective Meeting Agenda – 11 Things to Consider
Having a meeting agenda is one of the most powerful tools for a successful meeting. A structured agenda provides guidance for you and your team to come prepared to get down to business! Everyone will be motivated to get the most out of the meeting which in return,...
5 Reasons Why a Meeting Agenda Is Important
When we organize or attend meetings, we expect them to be well thought out, efficient, and bring value to everyone involved. We want meetings to be worth our valuable time. Preparing a meeting agenda ahead of time and sharing it with other participants can help to...
Is This Meeting Necessary? Meeting Planning Checklist Part 2
Business without meetings is like coffee without cream. It’s unimaginable! Nonetheless, not every meeting is necessary and having the right ingredients when preparing for it, will bring the desired result. Let’s take a closer look at the fundamental points to be...
Is This Meeting Necessary? Meeting Planning Checklist Part 1
Meetings are an essential part of any working environment, be it a big corporation, a small business, a non-profit, or a church community. Sometimes, however, it might feel like you have too many meetings and not enough time to fulfill your responsibilities. For this...
9 Tested Tips for Effective Meeting Minutes
Every meeting should have a purpose. Every meeting should aim to be a productive and valuable use of your time. Knowing how to effectively write meeting minutes will make sure that everyone feels that the meeting was time well spent. In this article, we will discuss...
New: Download Meeting Minutes for Multiple Meetings at Once
We have added some new powerful functionality to MeetingKing, you can now download the meeting minutes for multiple meetings at once. You can select to download all your meeting minutes or the meeting minutes of a certain selection of meetings. You can create the...
Manage MeetingKing via your Email
Did you know you can manage MeetingKing with your email? You can create tasks via email, mark tasks complete from your email, provide comments via email and create new topics via email. Most of us spend a lot of time in our email application, and often an email...
Maintenance announcement: MeetingKing will be briefly off-line Sunday June 19 at 0:00 UTC
The MeetingKing application will be off-line for approximately 20 to 30 minutes starting Sunday morning June 19 at midnight UTC. During this time Linode, our hosting provider, will move our application to newer, faster servers. You can convert UTC time to your time...
The science of better meetings
Are you wasting too much time in too many meetings? You are not alone, 47% of office workers cite too many meetings as the main productivity problem at work. The last 2 years we have been forced to change the way we work and face-to-face meetings suddenly became...