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[contextly_auto_sidebar id="njluQZFMrsfTasJzZHDpJbeNygnIWOZF"]Every team I've ever worked with makes the same mistake when inviting a remote team member to an in-person meeting: they treat the telecommuter as they would an in-person participant. Is your workgroup guilty of this cardinal sin? If so, ask...
[contextly_auto_sidebar id="SjFLjvhhMXrlpMuhqxQpibCzHIKzpyat"]If I look at my published work over the years, I'm quite hard on meetings. But I still believe they're a powerful team productivity tool. The trouble is that we've become complacent about meetings. Somewhere along the...
I'm on a crusade against pointless meetings. Here are some of my favorite ways to reframe meetings so that they stay action-oriented. To win at this, just remember 3 P's: Purpose, People, Progress. 1. Purpose: What actions and decisions will this meeting facilitate? You must be...
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Any meeting you have should be for one purpose and one purpose only: making and committing to a decision. Let me restate that: only hold meetings to make decisions and commit to those decisions as a group. [contextly_auto_sidebar id="XBgwKA29TzRGfkpdazCZOYR8ErbVTqqL"]Anything beneath that standard creates unnecessary...
It's no secret that I am not a fan of excessive meetings. A day full of back-to-back meetings is my personal hell, which I suppose would make a meeting-packed day with brief intermittent breaks my purgatory. [contextly_auto_sidebar id="h4El0jyXQzufBlj8fWg1Q9MdFMu3w0LK"]I recently wrote about the...
