One Meeting Minute Thought for Your Week When you’re striving to be an effective meeting leader, you may feel like you have to be perfect. You probably think you have to have all the essential elements of a productive, effective meeting in place. And, I may even be partly to blame. When you’re reading each …
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One Meeting Minute Thought for Your Week It’s hard to know how to get the right people in your meetings. But using these 7 roles to create your participant list will make this challenging task significantly easier. Because you must have the right People in your meetings to accomplish the Purpose you’ve defined for your …
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One Meeting Minute Thought for Your Week No one wants to lead a team with victim mentality. Unfortunately, well-meaning leaders often ask a question that invites this crippling mindset. Here’s how to avoid this common mistake. Many business leaders ask their teams this question during team meetings: “What obstacles are holding you back?” It’s a …
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One Meeting Minute Thought for Your Week Trust is essential for healthy human relationships. And, trust is the foundation for productive, effective meetings too. But trust is a challenging, complex topic. Knowing who to trust as well as when and how much to trust them is complicated. Don’t let that discourage you though. You can …
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One Meeting Minute Thought for Your Week We all know most meetings can be frustrating. So you want to do everything you can to reduce frustration in YOUR meetings. And, being clear on the type of work you need to do in a meeting is critical to achieving this goal. Because unless everyone’s aligned on this, …
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One Meeting Minute Thought for Your Week Do you support diversity, equity, and inclusion and want to make your meetings more inclusive? If you do, try these 3 simple tips. 1. Make your data visualizations meaningful for those who are color blind. Your meeting presentations are an easy place to start because not everyone sees …
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One Meeting Minute Thought for Your Week Workplace anxiety is at an all-time high. Provide this 1 thing in your meetings to make the problem better not worse. Give the people in your meetings CLARITY. Anxiety is fueled by confusion. And, most meetings do little to reduce confusion. In fact, too many meetings introduce MORE …
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One Meeting Minute Thought for Your Week You may think CEOs can only impact a meeting when they speak. But this isn’t the case. In fact every leader, including you, has a tool that is surprisingly more powerful than their voice. It’s your silence. Most leaders talk a lot during meetings – usually too much. …
One Meeting Minute Thought for Your Week Bad meetings are burning your company’s money. Sadly, most business leaders don’t realize this. They focus on other areas when looking to cut costs, but overlook a significant opportunity to save time. And, we all know this equation: 👉 Time = Money When you’re wasting time, you’re wasting …
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One Meeting Minute Thought for Your Week Thinking about scheduling a recurring meeting series? You definitely should! Here are 5 reasons it’s a good idea. 5 Benefits of a Recurring Meeting Series A recurring meeting series: 1. A Recurring Meeting Series – Secures Calendar Space Collaborating with others in real time necessarily requires a group …
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