May 16, 2012 | How-to and Meeting Tips, Meetings in the media
Today there was a great article in the Wall Street Journal by Sue Shellenbarger – Meet the Meeting Killers. In the article she identifies 5 personalities who can kill your meeting: The Jokester The Dominator The Naysayer The Rambler The Quiet Plotter The article also...
May 15, 2012 | How-to and Meeting Tips
Don’t like writing meeting minutes? You are not alone. Once you know a few tricks however, it is not that hard and with the right tool it is not a lot of work and will help you to get things done. So why would you write meeting minutes? First, it adds structure to...
Apr 27, 2012 | How-to and Meeting Tips
Dedication is often measured in the number of hours people spend at the office, but research has shown over and over again that having a healthy balance between work and other activities leads to much higher productivity. Problem with corporate America is that we are...
Apr 5, 2012 | How-to and Meeting Tips, MeetingKing Features
Meetings can often go off the agenda. Sometimes this is because a person wants to air their point of view with a forum. Other times it may be because an attendee has not understood the purpose of the meeting, and believes that their point is relevant. In other...
Mar 26, 2012 | How-to and Meeting Tips
Meeting facilitation is the art of making meetings run smoother. Meeting facilitators help meeting participants to stick to an agenda and progress through that agenda without getting stuck on difficult issues. It is the responsibility of the meeting facilitator to...
Feb 29, 2012 | How-to and Meeting Tips
Virtual meetings are more and more frequently becoming standard day-to-day business practice, and businesses need to understand how to run remote meetings effectively. However, running an in-person meeting is still far more frequent of an occurrence in organizations,...
Feb 9, 2012 | How-to and Meeting Tips
These days the technologies exist to allow most meetings to be held virtually. From conference calls, to web conferencing, and lately even video conferencing, there are many different options to choose from in determining what type of meeting to run. In addition to...
Nov 1, 2011 | How-to and Meeting Tips
Stress is often associated with working hard and long hours, yet some manual laborers work many hours but don?t seem to suffer from stress. So what causes stress? I once read: ?You don?t get stress from the work you do, you get stress from the work you don?t do?. This...
Sep 16, 2011 | How-to and Meeting Tips, Meetings in the media
I just finished reading the book The Modern Meeting Standard by Al Pittampalli. Great to see that some else is as passionate about improving meetings as I am. At the same time it is sad that it is necessary to write a book and develop software for something so...
Jun 23, 2011 | How-to and Meeting Tips, Meetings in the media
I just found this great blog post: http://michaelhyatt.com/seven-rules-for-more-effective-meetings.html This article could almost be a sales pitch for MeetingKing………