139 articles on "meeting"

Quick Tip - Effective Meetings Have SMART Goals

The first step in planning an agenda is to identify the goals for the meeting. Properly done, goals have five S M A R T characteristics. They are:Specific. The goal must tell exactly what will be accomplished. For example: During the next hour we wil...

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Managing Your Meetings

Managing Meetings"To get something done a meeting should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent."~author unknownOne of the complaints I hear most often is about the number of meetings people attend during any given week. It isn&...

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Why Would Anyone Hold a Bad Meeting

Pssst, want a stock tip that will make you rich? Okay, here it is: phone a public corporation and ask to speak with the CEO.If a secretary tells you that the CEO expects to be busy in meetings for the next six hundred years, call your broker and sell...

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gomembers’ meetingtrak™ receives high marks from West Chester University

[Herndon, VA] gomembers, Inc. (http://www.gomembers.com) announced this week that West Chester University (WCU: http://WCU: www.wcupa.edu) has selected gomembers’ meetingtrak/ce software solution for its meetings and continuing education program ma...

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Coping with Meeting Disrupters

here are several common difficult behavior patterns that aredemonstrated at meetings. Here are a few with suggestions on actions totake to alleviate the problem the behavior presents.1. There are those who like to ask questions which may or may not b...

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The ACHILLES’ HEEL OF MANAGEMENT COACHING

While heading home at day’s end, you begin reflecting on a coaching meeting you had earlier that day with an employee, Chris. You hope that, this time, you finally succeeded in getting her to understand the importance of spending less time in disru...

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The Seven Keys to Successful Offsite Meeting Management

A large offsite meeting is very much like a stack of dominoes. If one of those dominoes should happen to fall, the entire row simply collapses. Similarly, if you miss one critical detail, your offsite meeting can quickly unravel into complete chaos....

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Renovation vs Innovation

Renovation vs Innovation: Confuse These At Your Peril!First, some basic definitions:1) in-no-va-tion n. the introduction of new things or methods.2) ren-o-va-tion v.t. to bring back to an earlier condition by extensive repair.Creating a meeting outli...

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Are Your Meetings MINM or JAM

When people come to your meetings, do they say "this is a meeting I never miss" ( MINM) or do they say "this is just another meeting." (JAM) Unproductive meetings gobble up an estimated 20% of corporate payrolls, throwing away $420 billion a year. Am...

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Effective Time Management for Busy People

Do you ever find yourself wishing there were more hours in the day, because there is “never enough time” to get everything done? Do you sometimes feel that you are juggling too many obligations over the course of a day?At the same time, do you ev...

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