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All Posts Resources Community Work With Us Search Toggle Menu How I Learned to Stop Worrying and ❤️ Using AI in Meetings Leaders worry that using AI in meetings will reduce their team’s ownership for results. Experiments reveal four reasons not to worry. Categories Experiments / leadership & facilitation / meeting design Flip the Script on Meetings: 3 Ways to Transcend Your Team’s Limiting Beliefs Do your employees complain about meetings? Have you tried introducing policies or technology to make meetings more effective, only to see bad habits and overloaded calendars quickly return? If so, your colleagues may be trapped by three... Categories meeting culture 3 Beliefs that Trap People in Chronically Bad Meetings (Survey Results) A lot of people come to me for advice. And sometimes, when I listen to myself talking, I wish I could follow some of it.~ Shah Rukh Khan (aka SRK) in an interview with David Letterman In... Categories meeting culture Time Management is a Perversion Two people sit mostly naked in the snow, breathing deeply. They remain quiet and still for a long time. At least it feels like a long time to one of them. The other – a more advanced... Categories meeting design / Time Management The 3 Root Causes of Chronically Bad Meetings Now, I’m curious: have you noticed that a growing number of companies are trying to solve their crushing meeting load by canceling them? All of them. For some, this intervention provides a much-needed break and the time... Categories meeting culture Designing a Thoughtful Return to the Office It looks to me like we’ve broken work. Not for everyone, and not everywhere, but for a lot of teams the WE part of work isn’t working. I know. This isn’t new. Work has been kinda broken for... Categories communication architecture / leadership & facilitation / meeting culture How many meetings are there per day in 2022? (And should you care?) This is a popular search. For those of you building infographics and reports and term papers, here’s the bottom line up front. Our 2022 best-guess estimates for the number of meetings per day in the US: 1976:... Categories fun with meetings / meeting culture Intervention, Implementation, or Iteration: What do your meetings need now? Did you know that the first stop sign was installed in 1915? Before that, there wasn’t much need. Horses rarely ran into each other, and most people traveled by foot. There were no speed limits, no lane... Categories communication architecture / meeting culture / meeting design The BRIDGeS Rapid Planning Method Earlier this year, we were contacted by the team at Railsware about a meeting method they’d developed that they call BRIDGeS. We invited them to share their method here because we think that: This is a great... Categories guest post / meeting design A Framework for Designing World-Class Team Cadence and Progress Check Meetings Want to quickly make an enormous impact on the meetings in your organization? Roll out an effective strategy for your Team Cadence and Progress Check meetings. Too much time wasted in unproductive meetings. Meeting overload. Zoom fatigue.... Categories meeting design Should you talk about the news at work? If so, how? Several years ago I wrote an article for Inc. about 3 Powerful Ways to Help Your Team Cope With Tragedy. At the time, the tragedy was the burning of Notre Dame. Last week’s invasion of Ukraine resurfaced... Categories meeting design / tips & techniques How to Run Better Planning Meetings I enjoy planning meetings. I also enjoy large, easy jigsaw puzzles. I love it when a successful plan comes together! When you know the basic shape you’re going for, and you have a bunch of the pieces... Categories meeting design How to Optimize Your Team’s Information Sharing in Meetings Meeting overload, zoom fatigue, and too much time wasted in unproductive meetings: these problems grow during periods of rapid change. Bad meetings proliferate when we struggle to communicate well. And when things change rapidly, we need to... Categories meeting culture / tips & techniques Succeeding with the 5 Communication Styles You Find In Meetings Hello friends! Please enjoy this guest post about communication styles in meetings from Ron Stefanski, website entrepreneur and marketing professor. There are many different ways to communicate in the workplace—each with its own strengths and weaknesses. As a... Categories leadership & facilitation Interview: US Army Reduces Meetings by 70% While Improving Overall Information Flow John Antill works as a U.S. Army Expeditionary Civilian Workforce Knowledge Manager. In his pursuit of a Master’s Degree at Kent State University, he decided to map the flow of information while working as the Knowledge Manager for... Categories case studies / communication architecture Posts navigation 1 2 3 4 … 16 17 » Subscribe to receive blog updates via email ©2024 Twitter Facebook Linkedin Youtube RSS Feed Contact FormSearch Search...