Planning your first big event? Here’s what you need to know
When you think of planning an event, does your stress level rise? Event planning can be difficult, but there are ways to make it less so.
Category: Meetings
4 statements can kill your meetings
To make meetings productive, John Brandon suggests keeping these four statements out of the conversation.
Get the team together for a huddle
Many of us work with colleagues who are based in different places. Coordinating progress and figuring out how to work together can be a time-consuming endeavor. That’s why Huddle is a lifesaver.
Micro-meetings find a home in hotels
Not all meetings take place in large conference centers these days. Intimate meeting spots are popping up in hotels and office buildings, Ryan Rudnansky writes.
Planning and executing a flawless event
Great corporate events, the ones where everything goes well and everyone has a good time, don’t just happen. They’re always the result of plenty of hard work and a great deal of planning.
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.
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.
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.
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.