Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Meeting’

One Less Meeting Gets you Home in Time for Dinner

No comments December 8th, 2009

Excerpted from The Truth about Getting Your Point Across…and Nothing But the Truth A client of mine absolutely loved to have meetings. Regardless of the topic, if there was some reason for at least two people to have any kind of interaction a meeting got called. Not only were there a lot of meetings but there would almost always be superfluous bodies taking up space in the meeting that had no real reason to be there other than to be “informed.” Now, if decisions got made and things got done I would have had more tolerance for the meeting mania. But more often than Read more

Planning A Business Meeting

No comments December 4th, 2009

The First Steps of Planning a Business Meeting. Meeting planning is extremely complex, and requires very careful attention to detail. Those responsible for producing the meeting must take the time to carefully work out a comprehensive plan, and manage that plan very carefully. Never forget, you are responsible for the care, feeding, teaching, entertaining, and in many cases, transporting of those who will attend. If the sessions are not designed to maximize the attendees experience, people will turn off, and resent their time and your money being wasted. Simple things, such as if the Read more