Long silences. Tapping PDAs. The faint buzz of snoring. Sound like a meeting you led recently? Use our tips to make face-time more focused and productive.There's nothing worse than attending a boring, unnecessary meeting — except, of course, presiding over one. With our step-by-step guide to better meetings, you can...
Robert Grossman founded Focus Creative Group, an award-winning consulting and communications firm, after noticing the need companies have to market their message to employees and shareholders in a way that captures the audience and inspires change. Started in 1993, Focus Creative Group is dedicated to turning corporate messaging into...
Meeting Miser, a handy new time management tool for BNET users to track time spent - or wasted - in meetings. The Miser runs a tab of your meeting’s actual cost. Track the true cost of meetings It’s a cliché in every workplace: Meetings...
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. Why is it that in the world of corporations and government that meetings, more times than not, do not work? What characterises the behaviour of individuals and the teams who meet that destroys the ability of any meeting to actually...
In a perfect world, when you call a meeting, everyone shows up on time, comes prepared, is not distracted by their PDA or laptop, and stays alert and engaged. But it’s not a perfect world. BNET talks to Bert Decker a communications expert, best selling author and entrepreneur, to find...
It's the stuff of horror stories: screaming fights, racist comments, coworkers falling asleep. Learn the right way to handle any conference-room crisis. "If you disagree with a colleague's idea, you should..." Propose a constructive alternative without being immediately dismissive. Mildred S....
Tired of typical conference-room confabs? Try these creative meeting techniques used by companies like Yahoo!, Ritz Carlton, and Old Navy. Ritz-Carlton Meeting Technique:Start each shift with short stand-up meetings Pros:Quickly disseminates critical information Cons:Not long enough to go in-depth...
Tired of hearing dead air on the speaker phone? Use these helpful hints to liven up your long-distance meetings. Before the Meeting: Know Your Gear If you're using videoconferencing technology, spend some time learning how it works before your meeting. Use the...
Have you ever sat though a pointless meeting and calculated just how much money was being wasted as a dozen well-paid professionals zoned out around a deathly boring conference table? Make Every Meeting Matter — or Don't Meet at All Goal:...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-BJ's Restaurants Names New Chairman and Lead Independent DirectorC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com BJ s Restaurants announced that it held its annual meeting of shareholders on Wednesday, June 4. Shareholders re-elected Paul A. Motenko, Jeremiah J. Hennessy, Gerald...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Church & Dwight to Build New Laundry Detergent Plant in PennsylvaniaC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Church & Dwight Co. has announced plans to construct a new integrated laundry detergent manufacturing plant and distribution center in York County, Pennsylvania. ...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Walgreens Renews Product Donation Program to America's Second Harvest Food BankC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Drugstore chain Walgreens announced that it has renewed its commitment to donate discontinued and mildly distressed products from its distribution centers to America s Second...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Slow Food Nation Scheduled for Labor Day Weekend in San FranciscoC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Slow Food Nation, the largest celebration of American food in history, will take place in San Francisco over Labor Day weekend, August 29 to September...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Monsanto Commits to Double Yield in Three Major CropsC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Monsanto Company announced a three-point commitment to help increase food production in the face of growing demand, limited natural resources and a changing climate. It...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Nielsen and NMI Analysis: Green Consumers Spend More in Warehouse ClubsC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com The Nielsen Company and the Natural Marketing Institute have unveiled results connecting green consumers attitudes to their shopping behavior. The analysis was...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Research and Markets Adds Report: Analysis of Hormel FoodsC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Research and Markets has announced the addition of Analysis of Hormel Foods to its offerings. In a release, Research and Markets noted...
DESPITE an upsurge in human resource development HRD activities in organisations, training departments are still hard put to justify their usefulness and importance to their employers. Part of the reason is that the proliferation of HRD activities has blurred the distinction between what is truly needed by the organisation to...
Scarcely 10-years old, Lone Wolf Knives is still a newcomer to the cutlery scene, but an interesting marketing approach has given the company a strong sense of tradition. Lone Wolf jumped into the knife scene by recruiting two long time innovators--Bob Loveless and Paul Poehlmann--as collaborators on their early offerings....
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Prototype 1 of the Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon was unveiled last June 12 on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC. A total of eight such prototypes will eventually be delivered to Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona, by 2010. There, Army scientists will put the prototypes through rigorous testing...
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