Tag Archive: leading meetings

Aug 28 2013

Leading Meetings – Visual Aids

Leading Meetings – Visual Aids Do you use visual aids in your meetings? It may be useful to provide some sort of visual aid to make your meetings move along faster and more efficiently. But, don’t get carried away. A deck of 50 PowerPoint slides is probably not necessary. In fact, I’m sure …

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Aug 21 2013

Leading Meetings – The Minutes

Leading Meetings – The Minutes We talked about the importance of time management when leading meetings and now we’re going to discuss the minutes. But, in this case, minutes doesn’t refer to time but the notes that are distributed after the meeting. Minutes comes from the word minute (my-newt) as in small. They’re …

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Aug 14 2013

Leading Meetings – Time is Slippin

Leading Meetings – Time is Slippin Time keeps on slippin, slippin, slippin, into the future. OK Steve Miller was not talking about meetings. But he makes a good point that is certainly relevant to good meetings. Too often, leaders chairing meetings don’t take other’s time into account. They start late, run over, or …

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Aug 07 2013

Leading Meetings – The Agenda

Leading Meetings – The Agenda How many times have you sat down in the meeting room wondering what the meeting would be about and if you were going to be expected to contribute? How did you feel? Probably unprepared and a little apprehensive. Are you doing that to people who attend your meetings? …

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May 20 2013

7 Tips For Leading Effective Meetings

7 Tips For Leading Effective Meetings There is little in the working world as distasteful as unproductive, poorly led meetings. It’s ironic that many of the most distasteful and unproductive meetings are led by the ones who complain the most about other’s meetings. Meetings that people don’t find terribly onerous or wasteful are …

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