What’s the perfect note-taking tool?
These days you can choose a note-taking tool that fits your work style. Consider these options from members of the Young Entrepreneur Council.
Category: Meeting Management
Make productive connections over coffee
Let no one tell you that a coffee meeting must end in a caffeine-dazed, unproductive parting of ways. In fact, 99u’s Sean Blanda writes that a coffee meeting can be a powerful way to make a connection and accomplish some real work. The catch is you have to mean business.
How to run productive project meetings
Stan Portny, author of Project Management for Dummies, has been writing about improving the efficiency of company meetings for 20 years. Here’s his advice on organizing and delegating tasks when you’re the project manager.
Employ apps for better business travel
Mobile applications can help keep your boss a sane, secure and happy traveler. TechRepublic writer Jack Wallen shares five great travel apps for the savvy business traveler.
Organizing ideas with tablets
Have you ever been in a meeting and needed to aggregate ideas and then organize them into projects? Here are several mind mapping apps worth trying, suggests marketer Kimberly Deas.
No-iron advice for unexpected wrinkles
Even dressing in freshly ironed clothes is no guarantee you’ll stay wrinkle-free between home and work. Luckily, there is a pretty easy fix to be found in wrinkle-release spray, says Erin Greenawald, an editor at The Daily Muse.
Apps make great driving companions
The daily commute is a big part of many peoples’ lives. Technology writer Phil Cohen has found a few applications that can help make your drives more pleasant.
Set the stage for a meeting note-taker
High-speed presentations, rambling discussions, unclear decisions, and vague action items at meetings without agendas make life hard for meeting note-takers, writes Lynn Gaertner-Johnston. Here are a few of her tips for organizing meetings that are easier to record.
1-Minute Strategies: Jan. ’14
Get the most out of your breaks … Practice “mind over mattress” to become a productivity superstar … Identify flights with Wi-Fi.
Give them food for thought
Here’s an inexpensive tactic that could elicit great suggestions from employees who might not normally volunteer to contribute.