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Make Your Meetings Matter: 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...; Tags: E-mail, Idea, Group, Meetings, Team, Management, BNET Feature Package, Andrew Mager, Cyrus Farivar, Team Management, Agenda Item, Agenda, Online Communications; Articles 2008-02-19
Robert Grossman: Delivering the Message: 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...; Tags: Lucas Arts Entertainment, corporate communication, meetings, Dole Foods, Focus Creative Group, Robert Grossman, Finance, Software, Enterprise Software, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Business Operations, It Operations, Financial Accounting, Groupware, Outsourcing, Grossman, Message, storytelling; Videos 2007-12-24
Meet the Meeting Miser: 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...; Tags: meetings, BNET Staff, Human Resources, Productivity, Benefits, Time Management, Meeting Miser, Salary; Articles 2007-11-03
How to Run an Effective Meeting: 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:...; Tags: team, meetings, group, idea, management, e-mail, online communications, agenda, agenda item, team management, cyrus farivar, Crash Course; Articles 2007-04-09
Surviving Your Worst Meeting Nightmares: 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....; Tags: management, Cyrus Farivar, Business Operations, Leadership, Litigation, Productivity, team, meetings, professor, person, BNET Feature; Articles 2007-04-09

Shake It Up: Alternative Meeting Strategies: 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...; Tags: Environment, BNET Feature, Team Management, Food & Beverage, Arnoldi, Linden Lab, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Strategy, Second Life, Productivity, coworker, employee, technique, meetings, team, management, Manufacturing, Cyrus Farivar; Articles 2007-04-09
Ten Tips to Tune Up Your Teleconferences: 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...; Tags: meetings, Cyrus Farivar, team, videoconference, remote meetings, teleconference, conversation, camera, BNET Feature; Articles 2007-04-09
Presentations: Surviving Worst-case Scenarios: In an ideal world, everything would always go as desired.; Tags: meetings, presentations, strategy, disruption, panic; Articles 2007-02-01
O'Brien urges vote on Independent's future: Denis O'Brien, the Irish businessman and second-largest shareholder in Independent News & Media, reignited a long-running feud with the board on Wednesday as he called for an extraordinary meeting to vote on the disposal or closure of The Independent and Independent on Sunday newspapers.Mr O'Brien, who owns a 26...; Tags: Shareholder, Board, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Company News, Divestment, Meetings, Mergers & Acquisitions, Shareholdings, Financial Times; External links 2009-09-02
Asking for Undisclosed Information |Dodging Landmines: When there is something going on behind closed doors at your company, Ed Muzio, CEO of Group Harmonics, says that it is perfectly acceptable to ask for more information but only if it is your intention to offer help. Under these circumstances the best approach is to find a...; Tags: Landmine, Dodging Landmines, privacy, trusted, upper management, meetings, closed door, economy, downturn, manager; Videos 2009-04-06
How to Run an Effective Staff Meeting: What is it about staff meetings that brings out the worst in otherwise reasonable and intelligent business folks? Most managers are so inept at conducting effective meetings you'd think it's rocket science or a rare genetic trait. Nevertheless, they're necessary for companies to operate effectively. Here are five tips that...; Tags: Staff Meeting, Meetings, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Steve Tobak; Blog posts 2009-01-16
Answering Questions about the Downturn |Dodging Landmines: Ed Muzio, CEO of Group Harmonics, suggests you sit down with a piece of paper and divide it into 3 types of information: things you know, things you don't know, and things you're not allowed to talk about yet. This way you can anticipate questions and prepare answers.; Tags: Landmine, Question, Dodging Landmines, downturn, economy, business, corporate, questions, meetings; Videos 2009-01-12
1:1 Meetings |Leila's House of Corrections: During stressful and uncertain times, you may be tempted to cancel your one on one meetings with each team member. Don't! Your employees look forward to these meetings and they are one of the best ways for you to remain an effective, involved manager. If you have questions...; Tags: Video, Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Leila's House of Corrections, meetings, manager, downturn, 1 on 1, weekly, performance, review; Videos 2009-02-09
Hill of Influence: Team meetings can be tricky. You want everyone to participate, but no one to dominate. So, how do you determine the amount of interaction and how do you shift the balance? Ed Muzio offers up the self-regulating "Hill of Influence" model.; Tags: Hill, Team Management, whiteboard, meetings, management, dominance, team, participation, group, dynamics; Videos 2008-10-02
Turbo-Charge Your Meetings: Are employees' eyes glazing over at meetings? Do you start to wonder why you're even there? Edward Muzio of Group Harmonics explains how to turbo-charge meeting agendas by adding 'expected outcomes'.; Tags: Eye, whiteboard, meetings, agenda, management, time, money, company, business; Videos 2008-09-29
Use Flex Meetings To Improve Communication & Increase Productivity: There's an interesting way of managing meetings so that they are less wasteful of time, and less likely to engender frustration on the part of those attending. This article describes various ways of managing meetings successfully. Meetings are expensive. The more people at a meeting, and the more time spent...; Tags: Effective Meeting, Bacal & Associates, Meetings, Effective Meeting Management; White papers 2000-01-01
Making Your Meetings Matter: 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...; Tags: PDAs, Entrepreneurship, Notebooks, Handhelds, Hardware, Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Meetings; Videos 2007-05-21
Time Management: Common Meeting Failures: 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...; Tags: Failure, Great Management, Meetings, Time Management, Government, Team Management, Vertical Industries, Productivity, Management, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2007-06-01
What Your Attitude to Meetings Reveals About You: If you're still developing your approach to that ubiquitous office reality the Meeting, programmer Paul Graham may be able to help you sort out your thinking on the issue. Meetings are loved by some and loathed by others. Graham says that's because your attitude towards meetings reveals whether your office...; Tags: Paul Graham, Schedule, Meetings, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jessica Stillman; Blog posts 2009-07-31

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Making the Most of Virtual Meetings: Virtual meetings are becoming increasingly popular as businesses go global. They can be held using a variety of technologies, and allow people who might never have the chance to meet in person to come together to share their views and concerns, make plans, and arrive at important decisions. They save...; Tags: accommodation, logistics, benefit, team, video, software, BNET Editorial, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Teleconferencing, Marketing, Telecom & Utilities, Web Conferencing, Internet, Person, Video Conferencing, Phone; Articles 2007-10-03