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For Employees
The Easiest Way to Make Meetings Shorter
I facilitated a couple of full-day meetings last week. In both, I implemented a simple process that made the discussions quicker and better. Try this structure to make your meetings...
8 Alternatives to Having a Meeting
I love a good meeting, especially if its format is well-tailored to its content and purpose. But, wow, there are way too many meetings! Why is a meeting the default?...
Six Reasons to Meet Without Your Boss Present
Most teams I work with meet regularly. The routine is usually the same: the team leader calls the meeting, owns the agenda, chairs the discussion, and gets what they need...
Dos and Don’ts of Different Meeting Types
How many times a week do you complain about meetings? Too many, too long, too boring. Not worth it, not set up for success, not the right people? Wrong agenda,...
Be My Guest
Too Many False Alarms
Stop Solving Problems
How to Improve Hybrid Meetings
- Tune...
Questions to Redirect a Low-Value Meeting
Why you shouldn’t go to that meeting
If Meetings Suck, Why Do You Keep Going?
Are you meeting at the wrong time?
When you’re not the subject matter expert
Read the damn pre-read people!
5 steps for better presentations
Use your words
One trick to turn a useless meeting into effective communication
How often do you meet with your team without actually communicating with them? For one team I worked with recently, that kind of meeting was commonplace. Now they were offsite...
WAIT! Read this before attending another useless meeting
I hear no shortage of complaints about meetings. Sometimes I hear them from people who just mindlessly move from one meeting to another requiring them to move their individual job...
Twas the night before
For Managers
The Easiest Way to Make Meetings Shorter
I facilitated a couple of full-day meetings last week. In both, I implemented a simple process that made the discussions quicker and better. Try this structure to make your meetings...
8 Alternatives to Having a Meeting
I love a good meeting, especially if its format is well-tailored to its content and purpose. But, wow, there are way too many meetings! Why is a meeting the default?...
Dos and Don’ts of Different Meeting Types
How many times a week do you complain about meetings? Too many, too long, too boring. Not worth it, not set up for success, not the right people? Wrong agenda,...
Want People Back in the Office? Deal with the Meeting and Email Burden
This is the third and final instalment in my series about how badly we’re botching the return-to-office transition. This time, I’m putting leaders in the crosshairs and imploring you to...
How to Evaluate the Quality of Meetings
Be My Guest
8 Techniques to Make Meetings More Effective (Part II)
More...
8 Techniques to Make Your Meetings More Effective (Part I)
End Your Meetings Properly
Too Many False Alarms
Design by Committee
Stop Solving Problems
How to Improve Hybrid Meetings
- Tune...
Dealing with the Person Who Skips Your Meetings
8 Quick Tips to Shorten Your Meetings
If Meetings Suck, Why Do You Keep Going?
How to Draw Out the Quiet People
How to handle someone who talks too much
Read the damn pre-read people!
How to get a juicy conversation
5 steps for better presentations
Running a great strategic meeting
Running a great monthly meeting
Running a great weekly meeting
A better meeting structure
Wasted time in meetings
4 ways to stimulate better discussions
An alternative to using ground rules for meetings
One trick to turn a useless meeting into effective communication
How often do you meet with your team without actually communicating with them? For one team I worked with recently, that kind of meeting was commonplace. Now they were offsite...
How to facilitate an efficient meeting
Inefficient Meetings
Do your meetings go off on tangents so that two hours later you’ve covered a wide swath of territory but made no progress? Do you find yourself at...How to end a meeting
How to start a meeting
Are you starving for a useful meeting?
Twas the night before
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For Coaches
The Easiest Way to Make Meetings Shorter
I facilitated a couple of full-day meetings last week. In both, I implemented a simple process that made the discussions quicker and better. Try this structure to make your meetings...
8 Alternatives to Having a Meeting
I love a good meeting, especially if its format is well-tailored to its content and purpose. But, wow, there are way too many meetings! Why is a meeting the default?...
Dos and Don’ts of Different Meeting Types
How many times a week do you complain about meetings? Too many, too long, too boring. Not worth it, not set up for success, not the right people? Wrong agenda,...









































