Don’t Let Tangents Hijack Your Meetings! Or, should you in some cases? Ever been in a meeting when Tangent Tony hijacks the conversation with an off-agenda issue, taking it in a direction you didn’t expect? You’ve been there and so have I. So what happens next? the meeting’s objectives don’t get advanced as planned people […]
What’s THE Big Mistake While Delivering Invocations? You might look at the title and ask, “What IS an invocation?” (pronounced in-vuh-key-shuh n) The invocation, in its simplest form, is a prayer or request for the spiritual presence of God in a ceremony or event. Whether it’s appropriate to have an invocation at your corporate, […]
No doubt about it; people are creatures of habit. Nowhere is this more painfully obvious than in everyday office meetings. We march to the conference room (four minutes past the stated start time) and conduct brainstorming sessions that rarely amount to more than a drizzle. Why? Because that’s what our boss or supervisor does? Because […]
In order to keep your simple everyday office meetings effective and necessary, here are three basic Meeting Mistakes you can no longer afford to make… Over the past century, humankind has made amazing advances in everything from technology and medicine to automation and instant communication. Yet we’re still plagued by the multibillion-dollar productivity loss from […]
First TV interview for Boring Meetings Suck on the Ohio News Network.
Boring Meetings Suck – Get MORE out of meetings, or, get OUT of more meetings! With mankind making nearly every type of technological and personal advance, the general office team, brainstorming, status and powerpoint based meeting on most cases still suck. What’s the deal? Well, some people took notice of the ideas the Don The […]
