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Less is more. Generally, a good rule to live by but when it comes to your business-critical meetings you should always be sceptical of what the presenter is electing to leave out. What doesn’t make it into the conversation can speak volumes. Regardless of whether it’s the statistics and figures left out of the quarterly…
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recently revealed his Top 3 tips for carrying out effective meetings. Naturally, I got a bit excited hearing this. Bezos, being the corporate god he is, surely had some inspiring insights into meeting culture, with innovative ideas and techniques to share with us mere mortals. The Three Commandments according to Bezos….
Status meetings are periodically scheduled events at different levels in which information relating to a project is shared. When executed correctly, effective status meetings can create unity among teammates or colleagues based on shared goals. It also keeps all relevant stakeholders in the loop with regards the status of the project. What seems simple in…
According to Atlassian, the average employee spends up to 31 hours a month in meetings. Consider how many people a large multinational corporation employs, imagine the collective time spent attending meetings. How is it possible to keep track of every point and plan made, or any decisions reached during these meetings? Here’s where the understated…
A steering committee is a form of corporate governance made up of high-level executives, authorities, or stakeholders who provide strategic oversight and guidance to one or more projects within an organisation. When these people meet, it’s called a steering committee meeting. Steering committees typically answer to the top executives of an organisation, assuming they themselves…
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…
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…
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…