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If your organisation has decided to close the office and have everyone work from home for fear of spreading the COVID-19 virus, it might be the first time you’ve ever worked from home! In fact, it’ll be the first time for the vast majority of employees out there. Although working from home sounds like the…
At 247meeting, we are always looking for new ways of improving our processes to spend less time on menial chores and more time on what’s worth actually it. We also need to keep track of all those ideas that cross our busy minds. I don’t think we are the only ones in this situation, that’s why we decided…
Meetings are a dime a dozen, but it’s not often realised that there’s a lot more being said than what’s actually being said. To host a successful meeting, a person needs the necessary skills to understand each participant and why they are or aren’t actively engaged or participating. There’s a lot going on in a…
Caulder is under a lot of pressure this week. They have a lot of deadlines and deliverables cluttering up their to-do list. The familiar ping of their email app heralds the arrival of a conference call invite for Tuesday at 8:30 am. Caulder’s heart sinks as they calculate how much valuable time they’ll lose to…
Skype for Business, formerly known as Microsoft Lync, is Microsoft’s answer to Unified Communications Conferencing. It slots into your existing Microsoft infrastructure and includes the different types of internal communications – which is where Skype for Business truly shines. Since its release in 2015, it has become one of the key players in Conference Calling,…
Are your staff using statistics to lie to you? As per standard business practice, most conferences – especially visuals based web conferences or webinars – will contain statistics. Statistics are used to measure business performance or to assist in evidence-based decision making, among other things and being able to generate statistics is considered an essential…
When searching for conference call services, you may come across a few providers who will promise you free conference calls. Sadly, there is no such thing as free conference calls, and you might want to know what lies behind that as most of the times, free conference call services end up being more expensive than normal…
A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. Rita Mae Brown Decision-making meetings can often conclude without any decision being made; thus, leading to a group of frustrated attendees feeling like their precious time has been wasted. The reasons for these outcomes can be due to the attendees being unprepared for the goal of…
We can see you! Yes, you. The one with the negative body language. Arms crossed, face in a scowl. We can all see you. You are overachieving on the non-verbal body language signals. We “hear” you loud and clear –the discussion on the video conference call is making you want to explode or run away?…