Isn’t there an app for that?
Effective calendar management simply cannot be handled by a robot, an application or a piece of software. It takes brain power, empathy and deep understanding.
Category: Meetings
The wisdom of safety meetings
Whether your company has a committee dedicated to safety concerns, or if you just have a monthly check-in before the doors open, there are ways to use this time more effectively.
Want your meeting to start on time?
If certain people tend to arrive late for meetings, suggest these cures to your boss.
Hold that meeting somewhere different
Whether you are working on a project, have meetings, lunches, or new clients visiting, offices are sometimes the perfect setting. However, they can also get old and boring after a while. A change of scenery could really do some good!
Use OneNote for meeting action items
Using tags and date stamps, you can track the progress of others’ assignments in shared notebooks.
Make conference calls more productive
Here are some suggestions to make more people stay alert during conference calls.
Time for you to speak up in meetings
Introverted? That’s just fine—but making your presence known in meetings is both important and totally doable.
Avoid saying these 5 things in meetings
Meetings can be a wonderful collaboration tool or a wasteful, hostile time sink. Ideally they give colleagues an opportunity to share ideas, give kudos and enjoy one another’s company. They “are also a place where people jockey for position, work out disagreements and hurt each other’s feelings,” says Gretchen Rubin. She outlines some phrases that can really serve to undermine others.
Making virtual meetings effective
Running a succesful virtual meeting takes just as much preparation as a real-world meeting. Here are some tips.
Tips for pain-free conference calls
Conference calls can be productive or a chore. Here are some tips to making your calls pain free from U.S. News & World Report’s careers editor, Laura McMullen.