We always appreciate a good idea for making meetings better. Harvard Business Review blogger Stever Robbins wrote a nice post recently about how to prepare for meeting that involve making decisions. Robbins starts out with an all-too-familiar story about a meeting gone wrong, which he sums up with a few lines that sound like they’re [...]
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It's Not The Laptop . . . It's You
We read this story in the Los Angeles Times about banning laptops in meetings with our faces scrunched up. Do managers really “remove chairs and force people to stand” and “get everyone to drink a glass of water beforehand” to make their meetings more effective? Was the author of the piece being sarcastic when he [...]
Focus on the Work
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Modern Working Environment: Tools & Techniques for Virtual Managers
June 13, 12 p.m. CDT
